I am finding it rather hard to focus on trying to from an opinion of this image. This girl is just so very pretty...sexy too!
For lack of a better way to say this, I don't like how her butt is cut off right in the middle, and her head at the top. I think I would have moved back a bit. Not to much, but just a bit. Also the tone of this image is very cold to me. I would recomend lightening her up a bit, and even using a selective diffusion filter over her. However I really like the contrast of the colored rose with the B&W image, but it could also be brighter.
John Cowan
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~Ernest Hemingway~
I give you a 6 only because of the rose. If the rose were completely cut out of this, i would give it an 8. For me, it's distracting to the picture as a whole and looks more like it was sloppily added at the end because you didnt think the picture could stand on it's own. There are ways to effectively mix color and black and white, and i dont believe this is one of them. I love the way the woman is posed and the composition is nice. If anything besides taking the flower away, i'd say it'd be nice to see a little more black on the left side. It's cropped a little too close to the hand for me.
