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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Well, it's one I pulled from my archives because I'm not shooting during the Covid crisis. On the other hand, I thought the main objective of this group was to post works you're not sure of to get comments on. I'm curious about your comment though, you criticize the photo without saying why. |
Jun 13th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
It's the relationship of the character to the pole. He is perfectly aligned with the pole. It the pole were naturally crooked, he's leaning to the left too. Normally people would sit straight up and the character and the pole would not be aligned. So yes, I've seen many a crooked pole but to my eyes this is not one of them. |
Jun 13th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Victor, thanks very much for your well thought out comments. I'll look at the midtown range. |
Jun 9th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Interesting character shot.
It looks over processed and oversaturated to me. The tilted pole is unnatural and is distracting to me. |
Jun 9th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
I saw the webinar and really enjoyed it and I applaud your decision to stand by your work. You may have noticed that I stand by mine <smile>. I add a vignette to just about all my photos. It's a very light vignette, perceptible only if you really examine it but it works to draw the viewer's eye to where you want it to be. I use the graduated radial filter, not the vignette tool so I have total control over where the vignette is placed. Maher didn't get too much into post-processing but he does, like just about everyone else, use the tools available to him to make the photo look better than the camera is capable of doing.
In my mind there is such a thing as a candid street portrait. Even a not so candid street portrait. Look up the Humans of New York series, for example. Anyhow, maybe we can continue this conversation in the new chat room. Cheers. |
Jun 5th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Victor, I think this is excellent storytelling and B&W rendering.
When I first looked at it I saw the man wearing a hoodie with his left hand clinched behind his back and his right hand reaching from the side with something in it and I immediately thought the worst. Then I became relieved to see the phone in his right hand. The scene still looks confrontational to me. The women's face has a worried look to it. That emotional roller coaster is what makes this photo so powerful in my mind.
If I could recreate the scene I'd like to see what the shop was selling. The skin care salon is a little out of place in this story but that doesn't diminish the power of it in my mind. I wouldn't change the composition or cropping from what you have given the POV you had.
To draw the viewer's eye more directly to the subjects I might suggest: 1- adding just a very small amount of brightness to the woman's face, and 2- add a vignette around the man and woman by (a) adding a little brightness to the overall scene and then (b) using the graduated radial filter to add an oval shaped vignette around the man and woman, gradually darkening the background back. I think that might provide some separation of the subjects from the background and allow the viewer's eye to be directed to the subjects.
I'm not sure if this is correct but from a legal standpoint you might want to consider blurring out the license plate. Check on that before you post this publicly. I'd be interested to know what you find out.
Super, super street photo. |
Jun 5th |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
This is a well captured story of what's going on today. I like how you framed the street moving through the photo with the state house drawing my eye through the photo. I also like the B&W work. |
Jun 3rd |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
it's really hard not to have background clutter at a festival and I think you did a good job of eliminating most of it to keep the focus on your subject. Maybe if you opened the aperture up and decreased the ISO to compensate for exposure, you might have gotten more bokeh to blur the background more.
The bright white shirt on the woman in the background attracts my eye too much for my taste. I think if you added a vignette around the man to darken the background, that distraction may not be there. |
Jun 3rd |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Great timing on this shot. I also like the framing. The photog on left leads my eye to acrobat on the right. |
Jun 3rd |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
I think you timed this shot perfectly.
I think if you brightened the woman on the left just a tad, the story might be more complete. |
Jun 3rd |
| 80 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Thanks Carol. Cropping in from the right would leave me with a bodiless horse and would look weird I think. Also, I crop for printing and I really like a square aspect ratio for my prints.
I'm not bothered by the bodies behind the horse. The human brain is a wonderful organ and we fill in the details that we know are there. They are not essential to the story but support the idea that there is a family there. As you noted, it's the expression on woman's face that makes the story and is strongly supported by the look on the boy's face.
In candid street photography, you sometimes need to take what you can get when it presents itself. |
Jun 3rd |
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