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GeneralEComment by Harz_Joerg: Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
While the ceiling was shown when it loaded the first time I thought: that's an interesting place of great leading lines and structure and I looked forward what would be at the end of the ceiling. Was disappointed when I finally looked at the harsh, blue flash and the peoples and chairs.
Content/Composition
Of course there is action in this image due to the flash. However, this action and the place don't fit well in my eyes: the exhibit is a place of silence and contemplation, whereas the flash is an element of disturbance, harshness. Such a contrast might of course be an interesting compositional elements, but to me it did not work well in this case. That is probably due to the fact that the two elements are not well balanced and especially that the exhibition hall isn't too quiet due to the people. It's at that moment already very busy even without the flash photographer.
Something that might have worked better here is to focus on the movement of the people rushing through the hall: that's an often seen action in museums that is simply contradictionary to the intention of places like that.
Camera work -technically
The image looks not sharp were it should be: only the upper portion of the ceiling is fine, the rest is a little too blurred. Was it a handheld shot? Exposure seem OK, maybe a tad too dark.
Digital Processing - Technical
I'm honestly not a big fan of the blue hue of the flash: a flash is by itself already cold enough and the blue colour makes it even colder and also look too unnatural. I would thus have changed the colour digitally. Cropping works well, you might have considered rotating the image a bit clock-wise.
Fits the challenge
Somehow yes, but to me it's more "disturbance" then action itself.
Good luck for your further submissions
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