You can tell from Susan Worsham's photos that she has a deep appreciation for light and color. This, along with a great understanding for composition, make for some really stunning images. Another thing i enjoy about her portraits is the diversity in the style of portraiture. In the first portrait she is using a harsh light, perhaps one of a sunset or later in the day, to highlight a little more than half of the subjects face. This leaves the viewer gazing at the beauty in the stark contrast between the dark and light side of the subject's face. Also we see in this image that the subject is not centered but in the dark corner where her lighter colored clothes really pop. In the second portrait there is a nice sense of depth because of the mattress frame starting in the bottom left corner. In this portrait she is using a very muted, over cast kind of light, and using the colors more to highlight the subjects face. She achieves this by having the subjects towel be a very similar color to the sheet of the bed in the background. Also we can see a triangular frame being formed around her face between the neon yellow colors of the fruits and her shirt. I really enjoy how she used similar but different colors to achieve this.
In the last image she is capturing a sunset on what looks like an ordinary street. I believe her timing and composition are what made this an extraordinary picture. You can tell that she is probably here at the later part of the sunset, probably after it has already set, thats when you can really see the fiery reds that extend into saturated pinks and purples. She uses the diagonal street starting in the bottom left corner and has that lead into her horizon line, giving some nice depth. Then she has the harsher light and color part of the sunset contrasted against the dark trees and up to the tree line where the sky starts to open and the light is much softer. Having the car there also adds a nice touch of contrast as that is where the darkest part of the image was.
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