In Class: Visual

My attention is immediately drawn to the girl's face. The girl holding the cigarette does not look the least bit happy. She also has a white dress and light bouncing off her hair which helps to fram her face and draw even more attention to her. Her eyes seem to be looking right at me, full of emotion. I feel like something is wrong but I don't know what.
Then you look at how she is standing with a cigarette in one hand and the other crossed before her. In the front corner, there is another girl. She isn't well lit. It's actually almost hard to see her, and at first glance you would completely miss her. She looks kind of upset because her hands are on her hips. The girl with the cigarette looks older than she really is too. It's like she's already lived a hard life. The fact that she is wearing a white dress and the girl whom we can't really see is wearing a darker dress seems almost backwards if we think of white as being innocence. I find the lighting to be quite interesting. The most lighting is on the cigarette girl's face.
This image is about a lot of emotion. She's kind of depressed and seems like things are just hard for her. The little girl seems like she's almost more authoritative with her hands on her hips. It's almost like she wants to help the girl with the cigarette.
The creator of this image definately wanted it to be striking. I think it shows a side of life that we may be afraid of. Maybe that we see many things in our lives in a negative light and so we often feel like the girl in white. We need to notice that there is always that other person telling us that we've gone the wrong way and need to change. The creator wants to draw out lots of emotion.