A Woman's Work

[Nnnnsic]

[Sheetshooter]

Leigh,

For me (and who the hell am I?) this is not as powerful as a sequence as the second shot which distills the essence of what the post title indicates you are conveying is as a stand-alone image.

Cinematic sequencing of still pictures is something I have often done and it is a wonderful communication and entertainment device but is it adding or detracting from the potency of shot number 2?

It is YOUR statement only YOU can answer that.

So, what is it with number 2 then? Well, I think that the information OUTSIDE the filter is in ideal correlation with the information INSIDE the filter. Each is informed and reinforced by the other. And the level of detail in the tonality is bloody perfect. The toil laden woman is seen with just sufficient separation of the low-values to prevent her from becoming the predictable and denying silhouette and the brightness of the clean and tidy house is right on the edge but is as clean as a whistle.

The crowning achievement is the inclusion of the reflection on the near side of the filter. Deliberate or accidental doesn't matter. It is well worthy of exploitation and further experimentation.

[the foto fanatic]

I agree with Walter.
#2 has "it" in droves, for me, and tells the whole story in one image.
Very refreshing image (but probably not terribly PC )

[KerryPierce]

This one is very good, Leigh. I like it a great deal.

[Glen]

Hi Leigh, in contrast to the others I like 3, the slighly more hunched over central figure more clearly conveys the burden of the work to me, notwithstanding the secondary figure is slightly more distracting. Innovative series, thanks for sharing.

[sirhc55]

For me #4. There is something Dickensian about a woman seated at a table laden with food and no one else there

[marcotrov]

I prefer #1 Leigh with the woamn coming into the filter zone ready to accept the worker. It alludes to entering something different for the subject. Nice image.
cheers
marco