home-alone_5882.071312
by mariuca

Comment by mitalapo:
I like the patches of colors in this one.

have no fear
by mariuca

Comment by posthumous:
ominous

home-alone_5882.071312
by mariuca

Comment by HarveyG:
Not sure what you wanted to depict here. Loneliness. Locked up alone. Burglar bars and no view? Cold?

now, what_5887.073112
by mariuca

Comment by HarveyG:
That phone was certainly made around the time of the ceramic dolls :)
Quirky image!

Message edited by author 2012-09-08 15:27:15.

have no fear
by mariuca

Comment by herfotoman:
.....Hitler is here.

No comments? You floored them again. Afraid to comment..

The-Secrets-We-Keep.s
by mariuca

Comment by LevT:
looked at your photo again and read the comments. Of course you did fool me! I probably would've have suspected something fishy if I looked really closely, but I did not expect such slyness from you! :) It is quirky, no doubt about that! And I loved the idea of a variation on the theme - there are two variations here, actually, the second being a variation on the first variation :). I guess my immediate reaction was muted because it did not look like a candid capture of girl(s) posing for somebody else - but rather as a photo of girls posing for you. This made the image a bit too cerebral and schematic to my taste, I always like to see the element of spontaneity in a photo. And besides, I just have seen way too many photos of people posing in front of various pieces of arts, or mimicking them for the camera just for laughs.

The-Secrets-We-Keep.s
by mariuca

Comment by markwiley:
Fooled and fascinated me. Wonderfully quirky image.

The-Secrets-We-Keep.s
by mariuca

Comment by lawrysimm:
Commenting for the critique thread - although I have just read your description, I would have called this as a clone... The patterns of the stray hairs on her forehead and above her crown are just too exact to have been 2 different people, as was the position of the booklets (albeit the clever flipping of one the images on the booklet is a nice sleight of hand) and her fingers... Too many similar elements to have happened by chance :-)

That said, you have clearly fooled some, so you can't have done too badly!

For me, the dead giveaways apart from the girls themselves is the noise pattern is interrupted quite clearly around the girl on the right so to make this more believable you could perhaps add some noise after the edits to smooth those areas out - looks like a lot more editing artefacts right up the fit hand side of the image - have you cloned out another frame or something?

Technicals aside from an editing point of view, I actually really like the engagement of all 3 faces and the symmetry is intriuiging. With a bit more effort at the editing this could be a real winner.

The-Secrets-We-Keep.s
by mariuca

Comment by tnun:
this is wonderful! and the lighting the same on the twins - on EACH twin - as on the figure in the portrait. While I delight in the composition, I would love to fast forward to see how the twins' differences pan out: almost stereoptic.

The-Secrets-We-Keep.s
by mariuca

Comment by posthumous:
a "problem" is something that interferes with the seeing, and therefore the appreciation, of the photo.

Nothing interferes with my appreciation of this photo. Therefore, I see no problem with it.

All I "see" are three expression beautifully suited for one another. A bizarre but ultimately joyous cumulative effect.

It's quite a phenomenal effect, actually. Stunning. These girls are possessed by the Masters. They are turning into oil paint right before my eyes.