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posthumousComment by macrothing: 
Critique Club Critique
First Impressions
Bzz.. can't see anyone, but after my last 'critique' I'm tempted to head on down to your comments for a quick cheat, but I won't, yet. The big flash of white, I'm not sure what it adds to the image. The only 'maybes' I can see are what looks like a boot and a leg on top of a ghosted exposure something, middle right of frame, or otherwise maybe something happening in that 'window' far left middle of frame - either way this looks like multiple and/or long exposure photography trickery to me.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
Oh (after reading your Photographer's Comments),
now I see her (
skewsme - (no pun intended!)), at the window of the left, but the scale was all wrong in my mind before so I was totally off with what I saw. I can clearly see the face now. It is total trickery I tell you. You created an Alice in Wonderland type image and I
do really like that. I still can't place/get context/position on this, perhaps you were inside a house shooting a window from inside the house with her looking outside, yet still shooting out another window that showed a different scene outside, I don't know - don't want to know, don't 'remove' the illusion. I also really like the b&w conversion, it suits this well.
On looking longer and closer and gaining a little more perspective, this probably isn't even a multiple exposure, but of course at a shutter speed of 13, you may have brought some 'movement' into play manually.
But I do wish there wasn't that big flash of white smack bang in the middle. Maybe a slightly more refined crop at the top, only for added balance. I like the interesting elements such as the steps, the little barn, etc.
Comments, Score & Placement Review
64/73 is pretty low down the pack, but you're not phased by this any more I'm surmising. Score of 4.9 - nearly hit the 5 with this out of the box entry. I'm confident without the white flash this would have scored higher, and enabled those who may have missed 'Mrs Waldo' to see her.
You received some good feedback (and quite a bit too) during the Challenge.
Summary
This grows on you the more you look at it. As an aside, this cropped very boldly, would likely make a lovely, unique and interesting character capture and artistic portrait of your 'Mrs Waldo'.
edit: wording & typosMessage edited by author 2009-09-17 19:27:26. 
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