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That is really awesome. I love the violent contrast and his expression in amusement/despair almost. The only thing that bugs me little is how offset the hammer is. Even though it's a nice place to keep it compositionally it looks almost like it's floating in the air and not part of the actual picture. Just a thought.

Well, perhaps it is indeed floating in the air. Stranger things have happened.
Thanks a lot for the favourite.

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heh crazy ... I was just looking through "Today's Deviations" and saw this and thought "hey, that looks like Talescaper's work ... wonder who it is" ... and what do you know!?

yet again great use of negative space ... especially how you've allowed the negative space to bleed into your subject without a defined edge.

why the hammer though ... it feels a bit out of place floating there ... seemingly just in the largest bit of space ... it doesn't feel part of the composition, or at least it doesn't make sence as part of it to me ... If you could see two nails/screws under the head and a shaddow telling me its fixed to the wall behind him then that would make sence immediately ... but at the moment it feals divorced from the rest of the photograph ... it doesn't even feel like its floating in the space between the camera in the wall ... because it would have cast a shaddow ... nah ... I'm rambling ... but I'm sure you know what I mean.

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i would like to know the sugnificence of the items?

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Thanks a lot. You are confused. That is good. I know what you mean. And I agree. The hammer does not have a shadow, it does not look attached to the wall. Are you certain it's even there? Are you certain that it is supposed to be there, despite the fact that the mirror is broken with that hammer? Perhaps it's only there because we assume that the man must have used something to break the mirror.

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Do you not think that by offering the hammer as a potential solution to your viewer you're making it too easy for him/her? ... how harder would we have to think if it were just the guy sitting there staring intently at the broken mirror?

OK so we look at the hammer and are uncomfortable with it ... its divorced from reality if you like ... but we're still far less likely to question how the man and the mirror got there, what their "relationship" is ... and how the mirror came to be broken ...

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All items are of equal significance. The real question is: how do they relate to each other?

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You're on the right track.
There are two problems, however. The first is the fact that the hammer is in a very unlikely place. In fact, it really should not be there, floating somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I am not making it easier, I am making it harder, because you are being uncomfortable with the very thing that could explain the whole situation.
Then there is the possibility that the man did not smash the mirror, even though in this 1/125th of a second (I think that was the shutterspeed) all evidence points to him. A photograph is only a very tiny piece of the truth.

I am very glad that you are putting this much thought in it and allowing me to attempt to 'justify' my decisions.

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man look his broken reflection.another good concept again.interting work

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