Postby Maris » 12 Oct 2014, 08:49
Warmtone, you are not wrong. The picture was about light and luminosity but those qualities by themselves can accumulate to an insipid result. Curiously, to make a thing look light it is often an effective device to put something dark next to it. In this photograph it is the ridiculously picturesque tree in the background that supplies the dark accent. The tree is burned in towards the top and becomes unnaturally black as it goes up; but who notices? The other problem that few notice was a beach lily in the background that was deliberately hidden behind the model's head. A few stray spikes and leaves emerge.
Now if sea shores were art-directed and landscape gardened these difficulties would not arise.
