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Third of the series. Pleas critiques this set. :) Thanks
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The colors in this set are amazing. The tone and contrast seem to create more out of this picture than is possible. (I'll come back to this) I would like to note that I like the centering of the highlighted hair: it almost gives the impression of head trauma. (I'll come back to this too) As a set the beauty comes from the passage of time that is created. In #I there's the feeling of incasement. More specifically it looks like being incased in the layers of sedimentary rock of the bedspread. #II is hatching from the cacoon. Then in #III its alone atop the bedspread. Weather seeing an emerging butterfly or digging up the ancient past this set definintely shows a progression of opening. Even the sheets seem to talk. The smooth barren look of the sheets in #I feel like there's an emptiness to be filled. Then In #II there is passion in the frozen motion of the sheets. Finally in #III the passion is behind, finished (Not only does it appear to be in the past, but abandoned to the past) and there is a return to the emptiness of the smooth sheets. The final layer is in the expression. At first, seeing as it is titled valetine, I wanted to have a more energetic expression, but after some brief contemplation I came to grasp something more in the set. In the first picture there is a hint of fear. The last picture is the failure, the let down. The middle picture has the lightest expression of the three. Now when you put all of these layers together it shows in a multifauceted way the breaking open of the emotional shell, a passionate night, and a morning without a lover. An interesting note is that she knows what will happen. The fear in #I predicts the loneliness of #III. Proximity furthers the effect. #I is from a distance, just as she is emotionally distant while she still has her guard up. Then the intimacy is visually created in #II, not by zooming or cropping, but by the true proximity of the camera. Then in #III there is distance again as she is abandoned. This ties back into the first statement I made, the one about color. The words that best describe the three colors in this set are: red-passion, black-death, pale skin-fragility. Passion, death and fragility are the core components in the story created by these pictures, and thus the colors come out powerful, dramatic. The trim of white has possibilities, white being innocence. The small amount of white could be the hope of innocence, but why is it only in the final two? Hope is hidden, excited, exploited? Then once again I'll bring up another nuance. The highlights like head trauma add to the devestated feel of the final picture. The slight suggestion of a mortal wound resonates with the build up of the picture to show more than is possible. It shows her more devestated than it is possible to appear.