I snapped this candidly as I was walking to work prior to the start of the Iraq conflict.
What really caught me was the mood and the visual connundrums presented in this image. To me, the paper and composition suggests uncertainty but the subject suggests a measure of relaxation.
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Fits The Challenge-Yes.
Composition- Perfectly window framing around the woman.
Background- Good color on the wall/bricks
My Opinion- Good but suffered in the voting from the soft focus on the woman. [which is noted below in the comments] I'm guessing it was hand held...so just a bit of shake. Hard to prevent that. Still you have captured the feeling/mood here very well. I love the rich yellow of the bricks. You have a good eye for a good find and emotion is felt by the viewer.
I really like the framing and the inner framing. the position of the woman, what she is reading, .the negative space of the yellow wall. Unfortunatley either this lacks focus, or the compression gave artifacts. If this could be cleaned up it would score much higher from me because it is interesting to view.
interesting composition and lighting on this photo... the sharpness seems to be a little soft... i think some extra sharpness would improve the impact here.. - setzler
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