Dakota waxes analytical

N.B. It is highly advised that prior to the commencement of the reader's perusal of this wonderful document, a means for maintaining the subject's complete visibility during analysis be set into order.

And here we are presented with a wonderful scene, a study of sorts in layerpositioning and lighting.

One can clearly see the perspective of all four distinct subjects, it appears as if something were in fact drawing their attention leftwards quite magnetically. This evidence can be easily corroborated by the necklines, clothing contours, and corneal tracking.

More important perhaps is the layers, and how they blend. Obviously, Jacob is bravely displaying his profile in the foreground. More subtly, this sets the tone of blending into the next three layers, a tone that will find itself continued throughout this setting.

Further examination will reveal the carefully chosen skin tones of the middle two layers, providing ample ambiguity to create an illusion of depth. This is further compounded with the rear layer; the darkness due to increasing proximity from the flash illumination device combined with the complete blackness of hair and clothing serve to enhance the flow yet again.

Now we shall move onto the lighting, a subject that, while arranged coincidentally, required the touch of a master to capture so fluently.
Special attention must be drawn to the doorway in the right side of this photograph. The light on the top clearly radiates a halo of warmth, a certain yellowness that draws attention away from, yet also focuses attention to the main subjects. Beneath such we have a wonderful pattern of five dots, again arranged by chance, but these provide endless possibilities for the analytical mind. Spirits? Signals? Only time shall tell!

Moving again below, we have perhaps a cliche, the age-old 'sun peeking through the trees' motif. This shines so brilliantly across the ever-so-classic gradient of setting sky, flowing downwards through yellows, browns, and whites, bringing us back in a commodious recirculation to the door, the wall, and off the curtain to the next window, the final subject of this presentation.

The colors captured within this curtain reflect well not only the skin tones, but the clothing of several of our subjects. This hazel-bronze figurette of cloth serves to bring us yet again to the pattern of circulation so well found here. This more boldly borders the grays, whites, and blacks found within the aging sky below. These colors embody a sense of yearning, a longing for better times; a somehow enjoyable litany of woe, a rainstorm. As a final note, let our attention be drawn once again to the magnificent Jacob sitting there so strongly. The necktie worn by the aforementioned was not in fact, a mere coincidence, or perhaps a stylistic insight, it was a carefully executed measure to ensure that this photograph could in fact come together as a wonderful whole, such being much more than the sum of its individual parts.