Gaze
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by bspurgeon:
Comfortable in her witchcraft.

Gaze
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by Lydia:
I love all of this except that house poking her in the head. *sigh*

Love the dreaminess of it all... And the casualness of her "levitation".

(commenting only)

Gaze
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by jomari:
I really think you've done a great job with the leap and capturing that, and I love the processing. The lines of the roof behind your head keep this out of my top 3. (I'm assuming this is a self-portrait, Sophia?) I've given you 8, and that means I consider it to be at least top 10 in this challenge.

Gaze
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by giantmike:
Love the softness here. Works very well with the colors and light.

Ambivalent
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by ScooterMcNutty:
that area on the arm is actually a flare from a flash that is behind me. i didn't erase anything from the background. and yes i did reverse one so that it wasn't looking in. i found it odd and not what i wanted...

Ambivalent
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by HarveyG:
Can you find the model again? :) She is very quirky, fun, ambivalent, moody, good looking. What a find! Good PP too in BW.
One of the two images is reversed 180 degrees.
There's a flaw between your top at waist level and your left arm on the right hand picture. Looks like the eraser tool got carried away? That patch of light makes your arm look thinner than it is? The image there was also reversed to get you looking out of the frame rather than into it.

Message edited by author 2012-03-12 01:21:01.

little blue bird
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by EL-ROI:
Wow! Thanks for showing your original shot. I love how you took that and really put the focal point on the blue bird and the tea pot! For me, that would have been a throw away, but you really saw the picture within the picture! Nicely done!

Gaze
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by LoVi:
I love the soft edges, pose and tree........the roof line and drain pipe look like they are impaling your head....it's one of those things you might overlook that is glaring in other people's faces....(unless you left it there on purpose??)... especially when you have spent so much time processing the other parts of the picture to get the mood you'd like. PICK PICK PICK>>>>>>>>> I've starting to make suggestions which people may hate so I say what other's do...IMHO........to start a critique....rather than to say one word.....like "distracting" or some such sting.....I hope, when I start doing this people understand that I am not being negative...only lending a different point of view...literally.... so assuming you either had someone else take the shot or set up a tripod....you may have wanted to try to get a shot of her (you?) closer to the tree and farther down towards the center.......ug. I should stop. I just think this has potential. What do you think?

Ambivalent
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by blindjustice:
I am not a fan of the picture on the right. The proportions, mood and hair of the crossed arm shot is very good, high fashion model good, despite or perhaps because of the perception of overexposure.

Add one more thing to the list of reasons life is unfair- you are truly fortunate to have the self portrait subject you have.

Ambivalent
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment by mitalapo:
I like the multilevel contrast. I wonder how it would work if the two are swapped left<->right. another option is to stitch them like a playing card.