@mbrutus it was candid. I was trying to make a portrait but my subject covered his face. The original title was Easter morning. As a matter of fact I uploaded it to try to clone the frame with pickmonley, but then I did not have the time and it remained in 365. I must learn how to use more sophisticated PP programs
@mbrutus it’s my favorite photo, although now I know I should not have cut the hands at the wrists, but as I said it was candid, or more than that, impromptu
@caterina Why do you say that about cutting off the wrists? I disagree. I believe it is cropped and composed perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. We know he has arms. We don't have to see them. The interest of the photo is the tension between the hands and the face. What is being revealed by the act of obscuring. It is perfect.
@robz thank you Rob. It is a photo from some time ago that should not belong in 365, but for a series of coincidence I ended up uploading it and I’m grateful for the comments I receive
@mbrutus thank you. I really appreciate your well thought criticisms. I read somewhere (unfotunately all my knowledge comes from reading ) that you should never cut the limbs at the joints because it gives the feeling of amputating them I’m glad you don’t share this recommendation
Rules are generalities. But even if that rule were true, if one wanted to make a picture slightly unsettling, then cropping limbs off at the joints would be the perfect way to do so. That rule is idiotic anyway. In the early days of cinema, before people where comfortable with the language of cinema, closeup shot were thought to be disturbing, because the audience supposed that the actors appeared to have been decapitate. For over a century now, audience have watched closeup shot with no discomfort at all.
