11-15-2021, 04:32 AM
The angel piece looks fantastic!
I do have one suggestion, not that you should change it or anything. It looks good as it is. But I feel like there is a different way you could have framed things so that it really reads as you intended. And I'm saying this just assuming your intentions based on the progress shots but y'know i could be wrong.
It seems like her face is supposed to read as really bright, like it's bathed in this divine light, and the halo also is supposed to be glowing really hot. If you want something to seem to be bright, you need a darker mass behind it. A few shots ago, you had the window darker, but you added a ton of effects and now it's reading the dark shadows of the face against a light window, and then the lit part of the face is kinda tepid against it. Personally I would reverse that, and make the window darker again, because it also frames the wings you spent time on better. The wings and the halo also end up being about the same value as the window behind them. Not a bad thing to have things be the same value, but not if it's an extremely important element.
Another thing I might do is to 'cut' the value range of the face. It's sort of like when a camera gets over exposed and the light parts end up flattening to white. This tends to communicate that something is extremely clear and bright, without using a ton of value. It's just an alternative to having so much shading in the face.
By the same token the rose is hard to miss because it's bright red. However, the value of it is actually quite dark in B&W. It's kind of lost in the shadow from the neck, and the bottom part gets lost in it's own shadow. Just not ideal framing imo. The rose can't really be lighter than the shadow without losing the color, so therefore it's surroundings would have to be lighter if that's going to stand out. It's clearly an important symbolic element, so it should be given as much prominence as is feasible.
I do like what you ended up with, don't get me wrong. There's probably a hundred different ways the piece could be composed. But just some thoughts. Because i could also see the idea being that the whole top of the picture is bathed in light, and her face and wings are meant to emerge out of that as opposed to stand out from what is behind, which is more what you have. But I like strong masses against each other.
I do have one suggestion, not that you should change it or anything. It looks good as it is. But I feel like there is a different way you could have framed things so that it really reads as you intended. And I'm saying this just assuming your intentions based on the progress shots but y'know i could be wrong.
It seems like her face is supposed to read as really bright, like it's bathed in this divine light, and the halo also is supposed to be glowing really hot. If you want something to seem to be bright, you need a darker mass behind it. A few shots ago, you had the window darker, but you added a ton of effects and now it's reading the dark shadows of the face against a light window, and then the lit part of the face is kinda tepid against it. Personally I would reverse that, and make the window darker again, because it also frames the wings you spent time on better. The wings and the halo also end up being about the same value as the window behind them. Not a bad thing to have things be the same value, but not if it's an extremely important element.
Another thing I might do is to 'cut' the value range of the face. It's sort of like when a camera gets over exposed and the light parts end up flattening to white. This tends to communicate that something is extremely clear and bright, without using a ton of value. It's just an alternative to having so much shading in the face.
By the same token the rose is hard to miss because it's bright red. However, the value of it is actually quite dark in B&W. It's kind of lost in the shadow from the neck, and the bottom part gets lost in it's own shadow. Just not ideal framing imo. The rose can't really be lighter than the shadow without losing the color, so therefore it's surroundings would have to be lighter if that's going to stand out. It's clearly an important symbolic element, so it should be given as much prominence as is feasible.
I do like what you ended up with, don't get me wrong. There's probably a hundred different ways the piece could be composed. But just some thoughts. Because i could also see the idea being that the whole top of the picture is bathed in light, and her face and wings are meant to emerge out of that as opposed to stand out from what is behind, which is more what you have. But I like strong masses against each other.