Get up and fly!by
WindtaleComment by zeuszen: Energy/Range/Story: 7/6/7
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/6/6
Aesthetics/Technical:6/6
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.2
Vote: 6
Remarks: while the extensive negative space supports the magic quite effectively in this image, this becomes less credible when perceived as due to excessive contrast as opposed to lighting. My view is enforced by the complete absence of relation between hands and head, as well as by the magician's hair dissolving into the expanse. His right hand, particularly, appears lopped and somewhat severed compositionally. The lighted, visible elements, on the other hand, are a feast of depth, tone and detailed texture, showing no evidence of defects.
After studying this entry for a good while, I conclude that I can easily embrace its underlying and original idea, its compelling execution, but I cannot, easily, shed the sense that the ordering of the four points of interest (where the light is) unhinges itself by a hand somewhat stagnantly afloat (top left) and alienated from the central circle of suspense.
The photo, in my view, derives much power from the utterly convincing facial expression, the bundled concentration it communicates as well as by the direction of light following it.
