What I like most about Amy Stein's portraits is that she captures very average looking people in their everyday life but their expressions and the photos as a whole are very compelling and tell a story.
I love her expression and the dynamic between her and the cat. I think this relates really well to her Domesticated series; we think of cats belonging indoors with us but here the cat looks uncomfortable.
I would try to crop a bit off the left side to pull the focus in on her face rather than the setting (maybe at a 5x7 or 8x10 ratio (or a vertical crop if you have more information above/below in the raw file - it looks like you've cropped it in editing?).
I think you need to push this further and get a more awkward pose. Perhaps full body, standing, holding the cat with one hand until it really contorts. Right now it just feel like a cute girl with her cute cat.
I love her expression and the dynamic between her and the cat. I think this relates really well to her Domesticated series; we think of cats belonging indoors with us but here the cat looks uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteI would try to crop a bit off the left side to pull the focus in on her face rather than the setting (maybe at a 5x7 or 8x10 ratio (or a vertical crop if you have more information above/below in the raw file - it looks like you've cropped it in editing?).
Alexa Phillips
Hi Hannah
ReplyDeleteI think you need to push this further and get a more awkward pose. Perhaps full body, standing, holding the cat with one hand until it really contorts. Right now it just feel like a cute girl with her cute cat.
-Robyn