Lips

[Stoned]

I have mixed feelings about this shot and was hoping to get some critique here. Too messy? bad lighting? what? Hit me. I know there's something missing but i can't place my finger on it.

[LittleWolf]

Originally Posted by Stoned I have mixed feelings about this shot and was hoping to get some critique here. Too messy? bad lighting? what? Hit me. I know there's something missing but i can't place my finger on it.

I would find it much easier to appreciate the picture if I could recognize what it is showing. OTOH, If you don't want to show the situation, but really just the half-covered face, then I think there's too much surroundings that don't really show anything (and are partially out of focus anyway).

[Soapa1125]

Messy, confusing with the two unfaced head, crop away.

Too small, if the main subject on interest is the lips, crop it.

[+evenstar]

the head of the guy right at the top draws my attention...took me a full minute before i found the lip...

[Stoned]

Hurm, too messy then. I cropped it, better?

[germ_boi]

hmmm now i feel a sense of uneasiness, probably caused by the uncertainty of the photo with reality.

how often do you get to see lips in the middle of two head tops?

[Stoned]

It's an abstract heh. Didn't mean for it to look like anything you'd see everyday. Anyway I reckon things everyone "sees" everyday is a boring photo. It's up to the photographer to see differently isn't it?

[shchow]

find it too messy... first thing when i saw this picture is that... I tried scan around and look around for the "subject" of this picture...

just my 2 cents.

[Stoned]

ok then that was what i couldn't put my finger on then. Thanks guys. As usual you've been a great insight.

[VR2]

found e lips after 3 secs looking at it..
messy and make my eyes run alll over e place..