Fountain Girlby
PaulComment by spiritualspatula: Hey there, stopping by on behalf of the Critique Club.
It’s funny, I was just looking at this photo earlier tonight in the forums.
You have some interesting elements in the photo that catch the eyes, and although there’s a good amount going on, I wouldn’t call it cluttered. The rows of lights the child is stepping over lead the eye off to the right, away from the subject, but also add a nice weight to the right side of the frame. The same ground lights make really nice contrasty shadows that accentuate the look on the kid’s face, which I really like. Has the look of childish mischief to me, not creepiness as some others felt. The candid nature of the expression is great. The lights and curvature of the pool’s rim round off the frame nicely, as well.
I like how the majority of the frame is starkly contrasting white and black, and then there’s the pink, your link to the challenge, as really the only color in the frame. It’s nice that you accomplished this without selective desat. My favorite part about this is definitely the composition of the elements. The weighting is just really nice. I’m usually not very fond of photos with children on DPC, but this is one I would’ve given a good vote to. I think it wasn’t quite as overtly or centrally pink as a lot of other entries, and that was likely part of the reason for your placing in the middle of the pack. Either way, I liked it.
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