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From awebb@trans-tec.co.uk:
Could have used more smoothing on the focal blur.

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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
The room is a bit repetitive and too neat, and hiding it using the blur doesn't
seem to work well. I like the level of darkness in the picture.

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From houston_roadrunner@yahoo.com:
The focal blur made the foreground grainy, nearly the whole top half could have been clipped and the scene seems more on shock or supprise than loneliness.

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From :

I am not sure I understand the fuzziness up near the front.  Is this an artifact or a poor method of blur?  Nice concept, though the room seems to be mostly just a few dumplicated objects.  Perhaps this is what you intended.

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From awilcox@dreampeach.com:
The pose of the figure gives me a sense of fear, rather than lonliness.
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From beighton155@yahoo.com:
Nice idea, tho t looks like the classroom has been filled with dry-ice,maybe a little less fog would improve it

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From novotek@web.de:
schönes ding - gleicht einer albtraumszene. schade nur, dass aus technischer sicht die unschärfe im vordergrund so "dotty" ist.

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From ruy@hipernet.com.br:
Good concept.

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From dapigg2000@yahoo.com:
They must be playing `Titanic' nobody's there.

Good job.
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From cfusner@enter.net:
The image is a little dark, but not too much so. Actually, that gives it an
unexpected quality: it seems like a frightened student racing through the
halls of a deserted school at night. This, too, fits the loneliness theme,
since fright is sometimes a result of being alone in a spooky place. It
makes me wonder what he is running from... but then, sometimes it is
best to leave this to the viewers' own imagination.

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From tim.nikias@gmx.de:
Hm. Lonely? Shocked, yeah. Seems more like fright.

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From suso@suso.org:
  Doesn't really convey loneliness to me.  Nice try with the lights, they
  are just to inaccurate.  They should have all been uniformly made.  It
  looks like they were individually done.  I wish you would have taken more
  time to get rid of the graininess.  Also, the time on the clock indicates
  1 (I thought you said it was morning).


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From rclee@oklahoma.net:
Good lighting.  Reminds me of a nightmare.

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From glenn@mccarters.net:
Interesting situation, I'm not sure that "lonliness" is the right word =
here, though.
I would like to see a little variety in the position of the desks and =
chairs, instead of being all perfectly aligned.

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From bill@apocalypse.org:
Good body language on the human form

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From jamesrskemp@eml.cc:
I thought the idea behind the image was good.  I myself had done
something similar my freshmen year in college, except we never had an
exam at all...  On my screen, it is a little dark, and I'm not sure why
it would be...  I would suggest brighter lighting, unless you wanted to
show that this is a nightmare (and hence it is dark - double meaning),
but just because it is a dream does not mean that it has to be dark
(see the movie "Waking Life" for proof).

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
Very interesting effects with media, fog and blur.  One 
thing that would make the scene look more natural is if 
the desks and chairs we randomly moved a little bit off 
their exact position for the rows - right now they are too 
perfectly place.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Has a nice feel to it... the figure is well-posed.  The 
sharp edges of the light cones bother me a bit.  The fog 
seems out of place inside a classroom.  The blur effect 
is interesting... I kind of like the graininess here.

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From jl@artcom-gmbh.de:
The foreground looks a bit rough.

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From clem@dhol.org:
Alone? Yes.  Shocked? Yes.  Upset?  Yes.  Lonely?  No, 
not really.