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disassociationComment by SaraR: Welcome from the Critique Club.
My initial thoughts on viewing this photo is that it is a thoroughly interesting image that is a bit of a stretch for the challenge.
On a technical level, you have used a challenging camera technique to good effect. Composition is very good, although some may prefer all of the tiger's rear leg to be in the shot - I really like the way s/he is leaping out of the corner.
It is on the aesthetic and emotional level, though, that I think the success of this photo lies. The image is full of intrigue - the strange figure in white leading or charming the tiger as though he were a pied piper figure, the ghostly people looking on, the only child whose face is visible has a completely dead-pan, inscrutible expression. Aesthetically I love the way the blur has created a feeling of texture, and has somewhat muted the colours and partially erased all shapes escept the tiger.
In voting I gave this a 6, pretty much for the reasons I have given in the preceeding paragraph. I did feel that, to me at any rate, it didn't depict an emergency; there were two things in particular thta contributed to that idea not coming across - both really nit-picky, but could (possibly) have been countered with use of 'expert' editing - the tiger's gaze is not on the figure he is following/leaping at, and one of the people is holding a camera which makes him a straight spectator ata zoo rather than a part of (my imagined) scene.
I haven't been particularly articulate in addressing this iage, but I hope you get my drift! If you want any clarification, please feel free to send me a PM.
Regards, Sara.
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