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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 341170" data-attributes="member: 1061">No matter how you try to spin it, if you have to explain what the photo is about, then you have failed.If this is just some idea you're tossing around, I'm not sure why you posted it in the critique section to begin with. I, along with others, have noted that there is something missing here. Forget about the technical aspects of the photo. The feeling, and the message, are not clear. That's your critique. Whatever it is you were trying to accomplish here, it needs to go back to the drawing board.I don't want this to be anything. I'm not trying to define it. I'm saying that YOU need to make it something and define it. As is, no one really knows what to make of it. You keep going back to the idea of doing this as a series of candids, and I'm telling you that is a mistake. You'll end up with a bunch of shots just like this, which leaves your viewers scratching their heads.You want to meet with these people and have them invite you into their bedroom. The most private thing in someone's life, the holiest of holies. And then what? Smile at the birdie? Do you really expect people to open up to you and make a stellar photo by themselves? That's kind of what it sounds like to me. You just want to show up to press the button. It would be more interesting to let them keep your camera overnight and take their own photos.</blockquote>