Kick up my leaves

howdy, here goes your critique request which was discovered through #Project-Pay-Forward.

What a wonderful moment of love and intimacy you have captured.

I can't tell whether it's real or staged, so 'in the moment' are the subjects. i think it's real, it's actually quite hard to fake sleep to the intensity that these have.
i can't tell whether they are a couple, or just friends at first, though that soft intimacy leads me to this being lurve.

It's a lovely, crisp image with beautiful autumn colours, vibrant yet muted, as if you didn't want to detract attention from them. the skin and hair tones are lovely.

I have a slight issue with the boy's knee. it's a real shame it's there as it takes up too much precedence and hides his hand which is gently resting on her arm. that would have been nice to see.

I'd also like to see more of his face, maybe all of it, though i understand how changing your angle would have obscured her face completely, and how changing their pose would have awoken them, and ruined the beautiful honesty of the moment.

It's also a shame about the black bag, would have been lovely to have them purely surrounded by those lovely leaves.

But, altogether, for a candid, random shot, you've done well in capturing that wonderful closeness, an essence of these two, so comfortable they can lay in a forest and snooze together. A lovely moment <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/h…" width="15" height="13" alt="" title="Heart - "/>