Alone

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[Shadowman]

Very nice, this must've been the shot of the building you referenced in the haunted shot.

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Exactly. That is the haunted building

[mugge]

I really like this picture. Your choice of black and white is a good one.
Cheers Ole

[Donald]

The concept and vision behind 'Alone' is brilliant. I wonder, however, if we are struggling to see the expressions of the girl's face and if she was a bit more predominant in the frame that would help. I am thinking that you probably wanted to emptiness around her and the house, but I wonder if that could still have been achieved by cropping at the bottom and on the right. A suggested crop is, at the bottom to slightly below her feet and, on the right, just to the right of that 'lump' to the right of the telegraph pole.

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Thank you, Donald, for your suggestions.

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del

[Manfred M]

The image reminds me very much of an old photograph that I might have seen in my mother's collection; faded yellow paper, a high level of vignetting from the lens, low contrast and limited tonal range. Based on your other work, I assume that you have done all this on purpose.

If this was your goal, then you have been reasonably effective at achieving it. My main suggestion is that cameras and lenses of that era tended to have a fairly small maximum aperture and the film would be large format (contact prints, rather than enlargements were quite common), so the image tended to be relatively focuses throughout, so the depth of field is too shallow to be "vintage". The same issue applies to the sharpness of the girl; again, the simple lenses (Zeiss Tessar or Cooke Triplet) of that era would not have rendered the girl as sharply as she is shown here.

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Thank you,Manfred/