Late

What I like about “Late” is how I can imagine multiple stories about the concept through the simple yet effective elements of the photo. The near-end smoked cigar has got a very heavy simbolism in poetry and I can sense it here too. Its as if the subject of the story (pardon me, photo) has grown tired of waiting and waiting and started to light up and smoking multiple cigars – which is something any smoker in-the-process-of-waiting can relate to.
The position of the hand in the middle of the feet also indicate that feeling of being tired, almost defeated. The wait has been so long that your body starts to ache and you start to drop... The movement in this picture is also given by the assymetry of the feet towards each other, in which the slightly lift right foot (IRL left) shows that bodily movement of impatience in which one starts to tap the floor...

However, the pack of papers in the bottom of the right side of the picture are puzzling me in terms of a story-relation; I can only think they are there for mere chance OR to balance the photo so it doesn’t show just the wooden floor. If the latter is true, then I’d try to show a bit more of the papers, perhaps slighty disorganized too. This is, obviously, a matter of personal preference, so I can’t give you any reasoning to this besides my own taste, so it’s up to you, really, if you’d do it differently or not. <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)" /> This said, I’d also take a step backwards and add more space to the scene and a bit more of the body, to capture more sense of movement – and would perhaps chose a point of focus near the hands (I’d show both).

To end, I’d like to conclude that “Late” transpires a story and a concept in a very effective manner. Congratulations!

I hope you find this critique fair and/or helpful! <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)" />
Without further ado,
Eloísa Valdes