Brush Stroke
Within nearly every photograph there is potential for improvement. The computer gives the average user tools that extend the creative experience. Through the use of these filters and adjustment we are able to mold an image to our vision. This is not a cure all, sometimes it results in a better image, sometimes it only results in an alteration without resulting in an improved creation.
This photographer has added a filter to the stucco walls of this photo resulting in a more interesting texture to the surfaces. The photo-artist must have spent a lot of time painstakingly selecting out the non stucco surfaces. The composition has some potential with the stars and railing leading the woman up to the red door.
The photographer may not have had much control over the subject but it may have been more interesting if she were in something other than her waiting posture. I am left with the impression that she is not going to ascend the stars but only stand there in anticipation of someone coming through the door. She is tangent to the edge of the frame and this also gives her a feeling of inaction.
In this composition I am not sure what we should consider as the subject; the door or the person. Normally the woman would be the subject but the color and lightness of the door draws our attention away from her. If the door is intended to be the subject then we have a conflict and the woman could just as well be eliminated if the photographer wished.
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