Two Cultures #1

This is the second in the XXX series, as I said, pretty traditional, but still pleasing to my eye. It was interesting and a bit rough fighting the extra light and finding the location where the shadow fell like I wanted them to, but I am satisfied.

This is more my traditional use of large dark spaces, most people will/would prefer that most of the black be cropped out, and I can see why, this use of large dark spaces is traditionally considered a waist of space, but to me, it adds something, something I cannot quite define, but it adds to the image for me. I would be using a lot of black ink in printing, but hey, it's just ink.

I will be interested in the comments on this one, this is NOT a traditional Portrait, so let me know if you do feel there is too much black, but please tell me your reason.

James Longster, © 2014

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