Crystal, University of Virginia, 2009

it is not the portrait that make this shot an extraordinary,

it is your POV,about the long line ,and the title that adds a lot to the shot ,I could see the whole students of this university,and their tutors in the face of this young lady.

the fine composition of this shot tremendously provokes the power of the imagination,very well done,

and forgive me for this,you have just shown how a powerful composition transforms a single simple portrait into a major extraordinary fine shot.a lesson of photography.

6/6,with regards.

I just agree exactly with Saad wrote... What a very interesting concept, and technically, you fooled me... I'm still wondering how you did this, because it seems to me no edging out work was performed anywhere - or at least not between the foreground person and the others... So it has to be some sort of an incredible mirror effect for the second person in the raw - and perhaps Photoshop to add the others at the back... I'm very curious...

Now what I do regret is this: the light is fine here, but a little flat... The same concept in B&W with dramatic lighting would have been so very powerful... well... In fact, you can still very much go for B&W conversion and a little burning here and there... and after that I'd say you'd have a fantastic series...

What bothers me a bit with color in here, is that these folks are all wearing different colors, which kind of fragments the picture a bit like a patchwork... B&W would keep the good while preventing this from happening... What say you...? ;-)

Marc, no mirrors. Just straight on photography. This page describes the process:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9247411

Regarding the black and white, I agree the colors do fragment the series quite a lot. I experimented with b&w conversions, but was unimpressed with the results, probably because of the light. I realize the series has some weaknesses, but it still came out pretty good considering I did it over my desk with table lamps and little else.