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Wow, just wow. I personally love stuff like this, but I'm going to try to be as unbiased as I can be. For one, it's a picture that can be easily fallen in love with. Very good Visual at first glance
Originality: I've only seen one other picture similar to this, but to me it was just a picture. this is more inspiring though.
Technique, and Impact:
When someone sees a image like this, they assume it's about Death... Loss... Despair.
What I see in concept, however, is remembrance of a sweet or passionate memory, acceptance and embracing reality (gazing into the eyes of all life's end goal).
The hand on the person's cheek can mean that the loss loved one still loves them even beyond death. Or is it a concept of the passionate lovers of Life and Death as manifested characters? Or Acceptance of something seen so evil, but is in fact reality? Romantic in many ways to me.
In colors, I see that there's shades of grey and white. In some European decent, black is a color of death or evil, which isn't exactly there. Obviously there's a skull though, so to me, it's like a saying that nothing is as evil as it seems, even in Death.
Very symbolic to me, amazing in concept, perfect lighting that sets a more mysterious deep meaning mood for it.
The feelings I get from it is some kind of the white silence crushing feeling you get when your crush is near. haha
very beautiful.
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Staring death in the face.
A powerful image even among powerful images.
I adore this picture. I love the lighting. I love the black and white. I love the tone of her eyes, the expression on her face. One could even argue the skull has an expression.
Its almost saying "You and I, in time, will be one and the same"
Terrifying, Poignant, and amazingly powerful.
I don't think any more needs to be said. Anybody who needs to seek out a problem with this picture has too much time on their hands and just cannot appreciate art as it is.
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no problem :3
I note there's a small typo, where I referred to your model as a her. My bad. lol I should have proofread.
But hey, I HAD STUFF TO DO MAN D:
LIKE....
DRINK COFFEE...
AND GO ON FACEBOOK AND STUFF
D: Too busy. Just swamped. lol
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This is so well done in every way, I feel it come out of my computer screen. The way it is posed, how it is such a close-up view, it's so perfect.
I would swear that the skeleton is in fact expressing emotion here.
I could swear the skeleton is the lover of the living person in the picture.
Obviously the person has emotion too.
I love the tonality, how there is a lot of contrast, too.
How close it is makes the emotion strong, too I think.
I just love this in every way, which probably isn't that great of a critique, but I do.
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It's from the eyes of the inspired that I write this.
I have no experience with photography or manipulation. I have no talent for art outside the words I put on a page. Still, that isn't to say I can't recognize something above and beyond our common understanding of greatness when it is presented before me...
In my thesis course we once discussed the term "Sublime," and it took us the entirety of the semester to come to unanimous understanding of it. Sublimity is the apex of achievement in art; it is the echelon above flawlessness, where a work has achieved a force and power of its own, a sort of 'dark moment,' where the experience of it leaves the reader (or in this case viewer) marked and never the same.
I may be embellishing slightly, but I think I make my point. "Eternity" completes the circle of life and death in a single frame, capturing both and drawing forth more than thoughts of "Oh! How beautiful!" as we look upon it. It is work that far surpasses anything we expect to find, even if we are looking for something great...
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Well this is my first critique ever, the very first and the firm thought came into my mind when I saw this deviation that both of them are try to feel each other.
Life is so amazed to see death so close, astonished and looks speechless of having this much closure experience of death. The human is feeling pleasure to experience his near end in this way and seems to be enjoying the surprising moment.
While at the other end the skull is feeling the life and seems missing those faded shadows of life he had been to once.
Both of them are seems to be realizing & embracing each other and fully aware of the importance and worth of each other.
The only flaw in my sense that it needed to be cropped more from top. The bared forehead of human is not feeling good here. It would better to be cropped just from middle of the forehead.
My final words for this work:
A superb piece of art so meaningful.
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I really don't know where to start.
I stared at the photo for several moments to and I still don't know if I'll be able to express my feelings in words.
This is an extraordinary concept. The skeleton is touching the human's face in a way, that I cannot define if it's threatening or soothing.
In any case, it is like they're talking to each other through their eyes. The human is gazing at the "smiling" skull, his mouth slightly open, utterly mesmerized.
You've chosen chosen a clever and mysterious title: Eternity.
Eternity.. for someone believing in a God, it is probably, what follows death.
But most people, regardless of their belief, are afraid of death.
After all you can never be sure what (if anything) happens next.
Nonetheless, what remains for sure after death, is dust and bones.
Maybe, that's what the skeleton is trying to say.
About the technical part, I really like the fact that you chose b&w and that the light is coming from the background, it creates a quaint atmosphere.
The only flaw I can see, has to do with the sharpness. I think the photo would look better if it was a tad sharper.
Apart from that, it is an outstanding photograph and I think it deserves a Daily Deviation. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/h… " width="15" height="13" alt="
[I'd suggest it, if you hadn't gotten one a couple of weeks ago. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="
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Thank you so much!
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You're most welcome! (:
I haven't seen anything like this before :]
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A breathtaking image about something not to part. Very interesting work and so amazingly done.
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omg that's beautiful!!! On a whim I searched for "eternity" (332,541 results...) and only 6 images down - this... this incredible, striking, absorbing, offering. This is one of those moments when all seems suspended harmonic perfection. I have a... ermm... "talent" for overstating things so I'll stop. But wow, this is nice!
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The idea could have seemed cliche', but the expression captured on his face, the placement of the skeletal hand, the visual composition itself, all make this a work to which one finds oneself drawn again and again.
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My heart stopped for a moment while I was scrolling. I had to click on this. I love it. The model seems so innocent and open, and the lighting is amazing. Thank you for this!
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First time I've seen anything like it! Evokes a sense of originality and in a creepy, yet good way!
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Simple Spooky yet Oddly Elegant in its use of light and shadow
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OMG, WAUW, this is awesome just so awesome; I love it.
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Very cool photography. Thanks for sharing it.
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I love this- especially that hand up there....
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may I have permission to draw from this as a reference? ill make sure to link it back to you
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is
not
a
joke!
carry
on
reading!
or
you
will
die,
even
if
you
only
looked
at
the
word
warning!
ONCE
THERE
WAS
A
LITTLE
GIRL
CALLED
CLARISSA,
SHE
WAS
10
YEARS
OLD
AND
SHE
LIVED
IN
A
MENTAL
HOSPITAL,
BEACUSE
SHE
KILLED
HER
MUM
AND
DAD.
SHE
GOT
SO
BAD
SHE
STARTED
TO
KILL
ALL
THE
STAFF
IN
THE
HOSPITAL
SO
THE
GOVERMENT
DECIDED
THAT
THE
BEST
IDEA
WAS
TO
GET
RID
OF
HER
SO
THEY
SET
UP
A
SPECIAL
ROOM
TO
KILL
HER,
AS
HUMANE
AS
POSSIBLE
BUT
IT
WENT
RONG
THE
MACHINE
THEY
WERE
USEING
WENT
WRONG.
AND
SHE
WAS
SAT
THERE
IN
AGONY
FOR
HOURS
UNTILL
SHE
FINALLY
DIED.
NOW
EVERY
WEEK
ON
THE
DAY
OF
HER
DEATH
SHE
RETURNS
TO THE
PERSON
THAT
READS
THIS
LETTER,
ON
A
MONDAY
NIGHT
AT
12:00
SHE
KREEPS
INTO
YOUR
ROOM
AND
KILLS
YOU,
BUT
SLOWLY
AND
PAINFULLY
SLOWLY
CUTTING
DIFFRENT
PARTS
OF
UR
BODY
THEN
WATCHES
YOU
BLEED
TO
DEATH
IF
YOU
DONT
SEND
THIS
TO
20
PEOPLE
BY
MIDNIGHT
SHELL
BE
COMEING
TO KILL
YOU!
SEND
IT
SO
SHE
HAS
ANOTHER
LOAD
OF
PEOPLE
TO
GET
AND
FORGETS
ABOUT
YOU
DONT
BELVE ME
HEY?
EXAMPLE
1:
JENNY
DIDNT BELIVE THIS AND DELETED IT WITHOUT EVEN READING THE WHOLE THING! A FEW DAYS LATER ON THE MONDAY NIGHT SHE WAS WOKEN UP BYE LOUDE FOOTSTEPS AND HEAVY BREETHING THERE WAS CLARISSA STANDING THERE WITH A HUGE KNIFE AND WELL JENNY IS HISTORY NOW.
EXAMPLE
2:
TOM
ONLY SENT IT TO 5 PEOPLE CUZ HE THOUGHT HED BE SAFE AND IT WAS PROBLY JUST A JOKE BUT OH HOW RONG WAS HE! HE DIED THE NEXT NIGHT ON MONDAY AND ILL TELL YA NOW IT WASNT PRETTY(JUST CUZ HE SENT FIVE HE DIDNT COMPLETE THE TASK)
EXAMPLE
3:
JOEANNA
SENT IT TO 19 PEOPLE SHE THOUGHT IT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH AND WOULD DO BUT SHE WAS WRONG SHE DIED THAT NIGHT ON A MONDAY AND ONCE AGAIN IT WASNT
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Oh, shut up. Don't spam the internet with this shit, it's almost as bad as the "find out who unfriended you on facebook" thing which just posts more ads of itself on your profile without your permission.
Seriously, you're NOT going to die if you don't repost this, that's a load of crap.
I've seen a billion of these and never reposted a single one. I assure you, I am not dead.
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thanks i was just being a dumass at the time
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Yeah, I saw your apology art after I sent this. It's okay. Well, not "okay", but er, you know what I mean. Just don't do it again
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Oh, and also, your caps and lack of punctuation just makes this even less believeable. Not to mention, who would have wrote this in the first place, let alone came up with the idea that reposting it 20 times would keep you from dying? Seriously, it makes NO SENSE at all. This is about as real as smile.jpg or Jason the axe-murderer. As in, only in our minds. They do not really exist.
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