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anthonyczajaComment by e301: from the outer edges of the Critique Club
this seems odd, especially from someone with the evident appreciation of light and control of exposure and processing you've evinced in your previous submissions - that you'd miss the colour temperature aberration in the right-hand frame, that you'd have accepted the really quite bland light of the first two ... doesn't make sense, somehow.
Beyond all of that, of course, is the absolute cleverness of this image. One of very very few in which the three frames actually work for the entirety of the presentation, instead of just being a imposed mechanism. That trick I really like. You know what? If you'd taken this all to black and white you'd have done better with the voters: this kind of everyday tonality, whilst it does in some senses work to make the composition the more extraordinary, also serves to make the more obviously technical factors more noticeable - people think they understand colour so much more than they think they understand b/w, and also will accept much more experimentation in a black and white presentation. That, and a bit more punch overall - a bit more contrast at least.
I do like it - just the idea and the execution of it compositionally are enough to keep me looking. I wish, given the arty trick you've pulled so well, that you'd given it more of a chance with the voting public here. Well, from a long prowl through your portfolio, I'd say the ribbon(s) can't be far off - I'll be watching.
Ed
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