I think that the original shot may have been good, but I dislike the editing that was done to it. I find the Photoshopped halo particularly distracting.
Although I suspect the dodge/burn job you've done here was entirely intentional, I feel the need to tell you that I personally find it far too strong. The halo around the head is inventive, and I kind of like that.. but the rest of it seems arbitrary and unnecessary. With a little more forethought into levels work, time of day lighting, and bracketing, you could have achieved a much more ethereally natural effect. Still, it's always good to experiment, and you never learn by not doing.
Post-processing aside, I really like the composition of this piece, and your subject does seem very serene and meditative.
Too much dodging and burning around the boy, which is a shame as it's otherwise a great picture. Good use of wide angle. Very imaginatve and well composed. Not sure about plant growing out of the head of the buddha.
Unsure about the bottom of this picture ...Plants could be cropped off... Looks like an over excessive use of the dodge tool .. can see a very obvious halo where its been dodged
Nice composition, including the apparent curving trail of lightness just above and behind the head, and the halo around the head itself. But I'm reckoning the scene would be more effective were it more "serene" and perhaps less details would work here, ie the branch behind the statue, the foreground plant, the bit of a light reflection on the water near the plant. Still, I'll happily rate a 7, and would like to reinforce that imho this composition is very nice and has a lot of potential.
Post-processing is good, but a bit heavy--if you did it on an adjustment layer, I'd say reduce the opacity 50% for starters, and adjust from there. (6)
Nice capture. The surrounding is very nice. I do not know if meditative, but the outcome of it is the emotion, artistically speaking. The leaves of the furn seem over saturated with light ( a good thing ;-)?) The subject being more in focus may have yielded better punch, for the photo. Buddha, is a nice touch, as well as the rock. The rest of the shot seems to make things cluttered. 6
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