About Resignation

Hey Paul!

Always interesting writing a critique for you, your captures always differs alot from the previous. Which is a good thing, I wish I could vary my own work more than I do <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/>

Photographically:
It seems to me that you've used a flash for this capture, this reflects too much for me in the flask. Personally I prefer working around this with decreasing my shutter or increasing the iso/aperture. However the point is that the flask steals some of the storytelling here. I'll get to this in the post-processing part.
I applaud you again for doing photography like this and I think that since you're brave enough to try, you're also brave enough to work angles. To quote Scott Kelby "No proffesional photographer goes to a scene and clicks one time and end up with gold". I'm sure you as me would interefere with people in the sense of moving their posessions, so doing different angles might help you telling the story.

Post-Processing:
As I mentioned above; the flask. I would brush down the highlights here, because It's not supposed to be the mainsubject here, I think.
I like the idea of the vignette, howver I think it's a tad to strong. Vignettes will give you a eyecatching effect even at low strength.
Also I'd love to see a highcontrast black and white edition of this with the mentioned post-processing done.

To sum this up:
I think you've done something few photographers would dare and I applaud you for this. I like the clarity in the capture as it makes it more rough, which is true to the nature of the capture. Keep up your experimentation, Paul <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/>

Hope this was helpful <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/>