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JulietNNComment by Paul:
Awarded for the Best of Art 2012
This is a new comment series for me, so please bear with me while I find my style!
(Voted earlier)
This is one of my 10s - I like it very much. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:
1. This is flat out gallery-quality portrait work - wonderful eclectic composition, modelesque awkward pose, conspicuous structured lighting - all wonderfully contrived in a way that created photos have to be.
2. The relationship between your model and the light and the shade is just terrific, her physical relationship to it and her connection with it too.
3. The top line of her bodice - it communicates just enough of the garment she is wearing. Perfect.
4. The high contrast monochrome processing - again a perfect choice.
Overall, you've made lots of choices here and they all hang together to offer something that is more than the sum of its parts. I'd be happy to have this on my wall.