7. Caroline Ghetes (WPD Member, WPD Contestant) - (5/20/2009 1:42:30 PM)
I love this shot! You will either really hate that the bride is "disintegrating" in the white around her or you will love it...and I happen to love it. It gives you no choice but to draw your eyes directly to the bride and her face. Great shot and she is very beautiful!

6. Anonymous - (4/18/2009 2:44:22 PM)
Simple elegance/ awesome/ likened to a metamorphasing bride.....no going back.....just emerging forward

5. Anonymous - (4/17/2009 2:34:16 PM)
very nice.. - nat

4. Holly Steen (This Entry's WPD Contestant) - (4/13/2009 5:13:28 PM)
I can appreciate each critique whether it is positive or negative. This was just a simple moment of a bride getting ready in front of some window light. The veil over half her face was just part of what makes wedding photography so wonderful and beautiful. The color version of this image is in my portfolio just to see what a difference black white makes to the emotion of the image. Thank you for the votes and kind words.

3. Anonymous - (4/10/2009 4:47:16 PM)
"a subject should never fall into that void with wrap around light or glow"....SAYS WHO??? Photographic art doesn't necessarily need to fall into these rules.

2. Sam Chinigo (WPD Contestant, Previous Best Commentator) - (4/1/2009 3:55:14 PM)
I see the bride's veil creating a line down the center of the frame, and the bride peeking out from it on the right. If there was texture & differentiation between the background and the veil, then this would just be another portrait. And the fact that the brides shoulder is still slightly visible through the veil, tells you that it is a veil. If it wasn't visible, it would just look like the image was cut in half. I love it Holly! Nicely done. Refreshingly original.

1. Brandon Wright (Outside Contestant) - (3/27/2009 8:43:04 PM)
Okay. I see what you are going for, but you wound up with a disintegrating bride. A subtle definition between the veil and background would make this image easier to look at. High-key images need white, but the human eye never sees stark white in nature. Even when you look at the sun you see varying tones of yellow. White should be a tone. Like a wedding dress is white, but it still has detail and tonality. For instance, if an artist were to paint or draw this image they wouldn't forget to finish the brides veil. They would actually have to put something with texture in the background, even if it were on off white gradient or glowing window. White in a photograph shouldn't be accounted for by lost information. I know with digital sometimes you can't retain all the detail, but a subject should never fall into that void with wrap around light or glow. The veil should be opaque. Right now it is connected to the unrealistic background.