Winter romanceby
BrinComment by posthumous: Greetings from the Critique Club
You scored a 6+ (which I hardly ever do), so i don't think scoring's a problem with this photo. I personally gave this a 5, I'm sad to say, but ONLY because I think a snowman is something that's already personified, so it doesn't really meet the challenge according to my personal standards. So my guess is that dnmc and overall darkness are the reasons this didn't score in the stellar range. Just a guess, though, and NEITHER of those things have anything to do with the true worth of the photo.
That being said, however, you did some really nice things to enhance the personification. The centering of your subjects, and silhouetting them against those lovely sentimental sunset tones, shows the sort of loving attention that a photographer usually saves for human beings. Also the high contrast, consisting of a few highlights and lots of dark tones, makes the snow indistinguishable from sand. Since we don't generally imagine snowpeople on the beach, you make it easier for us to forget that they are snowpeople.
Now, one of the reasons it DID reach 6-land is that for all the darkness there is still quite a bit of detail in the water and snow. The snowpeople seem a little soft to me, but I find that enhances the sense of romance.
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