Fruity Bumboby
PBearComment by posthumous: Greetings from the Critique Club!
This photo does not need critique club. I admire your modesty for checking off that box, but this photo has proven itself in both scoring and beauty. Critique club would gladly give up its empty words for this image.
It's not always (almost never?) a good decision to go heavy on saturation, but it works perfectly in this photo. A truly great piece of art is the result of any number of bad decisions made exactly when they were needed. I can only guess you had a very well-exposed, well-focused photo to not create noise with all that saturation.
I'll try to talk about some of the reasons this is a great work of art, but I'm just guessing, really. Ultimately, I know it when I see it. And this is it. Ok, then, the angle is unusual. Shooting from above is a godlike perspective. It gives us the illusion of having a great insight into the situation, of knowing the character's whole life up until that point, of knowing what led to this event and what will come of it. At the same time, it risks trivializing the subject, since it put the subject below us. Here, however, you have us watching an almost mythic struggle: man vs. nature! Or at least, boy vs. fruit. I think the profundity of this image comes from the way the boy blends in with the fruit, becomes one of them even as he interacts with them. This is emphasized by the daring placement of the boy all the way at the top of the frame, in a position of superiority but also on the verge of being overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of beauty below him.
The Critique Club bows to you.
