Greetings from the Critique Club!
I quite like this photograph. The balance created by having the light in one corner, and your wife in the opposite corner, is very pleasing to the eye, and creates a natural, circular flow through the photograph.
On its own merits, just viewing the photograph as a photograph and ignoring the constraints of the challenge, this is an excellent composition and a photograph you should be proud of. When viewed in the context of the Rule of Thirds challenge, however, I personally believe it falls short of meeting the challenge. Your wife's eyes are roughly centered top to bottom in the frame, and fall well to the right of the rightmost thirds line. Likewise, the light at the top left corner falls somewhat above and to the left of that intersection.
Overall, the composition says more to me about negative space than it does about the rule of thirds. I suspect that the most or all of your 6 votes of 3 or lower were people who felt this entry did not meet the challenge criteria. I recognize, however, that if this photograph were recomposed in a way that met the rule of thirds, it probably would not be as aesthetically pleasing, so perhaps it may have been best to save this concept for a different challenge, where it could realize its full potential. Still, that does not take away the fact that this is an excellent photograph, and the fact that you achieved a score of 5.7-plus, despite arguably not meeting the challenge, speaks volumes about the high quality of this photograph.
~Terry |
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