CONTENT:

The subject of this photograph is a boy hiding among the foliage.

The boy’s green eyes look straight into the camera. There is green and black pain on his face. He is hiding among the foliage, and the details of the leaves are very clear to the eye. The boy is not smiling, just calmly looking into the camera.

The background of this image is just leaves. Green leaves with very clear patterns and details on them.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES:

The photographer is an outsider taking photographs of people in the woods. (my guess)

When I first look at the camera, my attention is immediately drawn to the boy’s green eyes.

There are only two colors in this image, with green being dominant and black being recessive. The boy’s eyes are green, the paint on his cheeks and his forehead is green, and the foliage behind him is also green. His hair and eyebrows are black, and the outline of the paint on his face is also black. There are also dark green lines on the light-colored leaves, and the shapes are also very clear.

Light is on the boy’s face, and shadow is on the leaves behind him. The light directs my attention to the boy’s eyes and the paint on his face.

The boy’s face is in focus while the background, the leaves behind him is a little unclear and hazy.

The boy’s eyes catch my attention whenever I look at the photograph. They stand out partly because light is shed on them, and because they are so green and powerful that they grasp my attention every time.

MEANING/INTENT:

The intended effects of the photographer’s choices are probably to show us how powerful a face can be, even without a smile, and that some people like to go into the woods, and the love for the woods could not be shown by a smile. It can only be shown by the eyes. Also, the photographer showed the power of the eyes, that the eyes are the most explicit way of communicating feelings.