Photoshop work on the photos consisted of some light/contrast adjustments, getting rid of a bullet-hole that was glaringing obvious in the side shots, and magicking up an extra tree in the center shot to get rid of some of the extra light that drew your eyes away from the statue.

I think this is beautiful.......I love cemetary statuary, and I remember this one...very good work Taltos!

This is a good tryptich, Taltos. I was wondering what it would be like if the 3rd photo was taken from the other side of the statue, so you had the first shot of the right side of the woman, then that beautiful center photo; the 3/4 view, then the left side view of the statue, balancing the whole series...also the levels of the central photo seem a bit darker than the side panels. Hope my feedback makes sense. :-)>

Good point about the 3rd photo. I don't have any shots from that side, but the town where I took this isn't too far away. It's a nice sunny day today, maybe I'll head back there and see what I can do. I had thought about flipping the side photo so that both panels faced toward the center, but the manipulation seemed too obvious to me. Even putting in the extra tree felt like cheating to me.

I agree about the 3rd photo, I think it would draw the focus back to the main central image & make the whole more interesting. I like the difference in levels, to me that does add to the focal point. Very nice triptych so far.

I agree with the others about the third one. Can't you just mirror the image? It is a very beautiful triptych.

The interesting thing about this triptych is that the
first time I looked at it I scanned from the leftmost
part to the center, and because of the change in angle
a trick was played on my mind, giving me the impression
that the statue was caught in motion, as though it had
miraculously changed it's pose between shots. Doruksal
had done something similar a while back with a two
component triptych of a real bird and a figurine of a
bird. When I first looked at it I was momentarily
confused as to which was the real bird and which was
the figurine.

This isn't an optical illusion, per se, but rather an
illusion of logic (for lack of a better word), because
it plays games with one's mental associations between
the objects.

The third photo does seem to short circuit the effect.
I think a third angle would be much better, and complete
the effect.

Taltos, please don't feel like you are cheating in making changes to your images (though I can't work out which tree is the extra one!!) - flipping the image to attract the eye in a different way isn't cheating any more than putting them on a background with a drop shadow is - you are merely presenting the image. Very nicely done, the border compliments the pictures very well. (",)