Faces of Chicago 20

All critiques are welcome.

A very special one! (here I would have loved a sharp left one too..)Like the dividing of B&W! Suggest to crop another 2/3 of the neck (!)hair of the right woman. It's getting too much attention now, but it can't be missed. The result will be more brutal.

You've raised two very interesting points; thank you! Let me see whether I can address them:

 

Personally, I see the lady on the left as simply a dummy, a placeholder, but a very important one in the sense that her identity/face is not important, but her structure is. Therefore the defocussed appearance works for me.

 

About the crop, if I remove her neck, the laces on the shoulder of the lady in white will disappear. Is that a reasonable sacrifice? I'm not sure. In particular, the differences in their heights is balanced by this cropping---the proportions of their structure inside the frame are close to (although not quite) equal.

 

This is another instance of what I missed by shooting from the hip---the right hand of the lady in black---something to balance the left hand of the lady in white.

 

Best regards.

Debasish.., I'm looking forward to your photo called "controlled by the hip", but please, I don't want to miss your adventures before..! Regarrds! Olaf.