Overexposure OK! ... sometimes!

I noticed, from the responses to some of my artistic works, that some people tend to find fault in a photo that has highlite areas that are somewhat too bright, but in most cases, on much of my work in particular, it is the mid-light areas that are the determining factor in selecting a brighness level to an image, and so sometimes overexposed highlights are an unfortunate result of an otherwise PERFECTly exposed image... basically, for example as in this image, the side of her face out of the sun is very well exposed, and so the highlites are too bright, but any other way of doing the image would be unflattering, because if I were to LOWER brightness, the shaded areas would become too dark...
Point -> Sometimes overblown highlights, and even underexposed shaddow area is not only acceptable, but even welcome in making a photo better... sometimes the best images break the general rules of photography, it's ART people, there really are no rules!

DizzyCow

04/17/07 @278

Yup, but there is nothing wrong somebody to say his/her opinion about your artwork.There are no rules,but as you know there are many people with different opinions,so it`s normal i think somebody to seems exaggerating couse our opinion is different from his.The different eyez see different things in the art.I can agree with only if the art is abstract.But even there are rulez. .....Don't know do you understand me with my bad english,but the idea is that even if your artwork is perfect and you thing that there are no mistakes in the light-dark part you must know that there are people with more critical view who see what you and the others can;t see.Im not talking about myself,but just about the pepole here.And i really admire to that ones who have this 'critical' eye.

Secretx