The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by karmat:
I like your use of shallow depth of field here. Very dramatic.

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by juliaperson:
I love the way you focussed this photograph - it really leads the eye into the picture. great job.

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by Paige:
Ahhh, DOF at it finest. I only wish he had cut that string first. Also wish he was looking at the guitar. Oh well, minor nits, awesome shot as is.

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by Jacko:
Super perspective. I, for one, love these kind of shallow DOF shots. Great job. Jacko. 9

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by CreativeFlyPhoto:
WOW .. the DOF on this image is great ... it makes the piece jump off the page ... the tones are great :)

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by hawkida:
The focus seems too minimal and I want to either see the player better or not at all.

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by RiderGal:
This is kind of cool... I like the DOF you used here, makes for a very interesting photo that could have been quite plain. Nice job getting down and really trying different angles on the subject. The sepia gives it an old time look.

The Guitarist
by arnit

Comment by wewillexplore:
This screams to me "10!!!!" It is also one of those pictures that will not do so well on dpc...good luck, I'm pulling for this image. It's stunning focus highlights a wonderful composition. If I were to change anything, I'd make the face of the guitar more oblique so that you could see "down the length of it." That's about it. 10.

What I See
by arnit

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*
Strange that I got "Purple" also as a CC assignment.
I think I had suggested cropping the face in that shot, but I think in this one I'd like to see MORE of the face actually. Right in the middle of her head seems like a strange place for a crop. Especially when showing so much of the shoulders. While her shoulders may be pretty, I don't think they really need to be in this photo to work with the challenge. The white actually takes up more space than the green, which is suposed to be the main thing for the challenge. So, I think for this shot, I would show more head, less shoulders.
Focus and clarity are again really good. We can see the little creases in her lips. Great detail you show us here.
The lighting is good as well. No distracting hot spots or annoying shadows.
Again, I like how you have positioned her to the right of the photo, however, I think that I'd like the negative space to be more green for the purpose of the challenge. Outside the challenge, I think the background works very well.
I think that there is a great deal of white between the red and green, and I think that makes it seem like the shot isn't quite focused on the colors. Maybe making the green area of the background larger, and creating less skin would help to put the visual focus on the color and not nessisarily just the girl.
As for your poem, I'm not really sure I get it. But this line "Believe in me though u cannot c what lies within the Dark " Kind of makes me think that you were trying to make us look really hard for the green, which is partially hidden in the darkness. Maybe even TOO hidden.
~Heather~

What I See
by arnit

Comment by dsidwell:
I really like how the background contrasts with the lips here. This photo has a very formal feel to it.