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There's a fine photo here. But I had to use the title as a clue to sleuth it out and then consciously reprogram my brain to find it. I then enjoyed it very much, after the struggle.

The dpr interface is just so bad. I finally tested and realized that of all the size choice in the gallery (available with the obvious click on the image) the only that makes sense and does justice to the photo is original. How very lame their programming is.

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ihtisham said:
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Frank, it is mostly monday morning quarterbacking, but I do like the idea of paying more attention to diagonals to create tension in the photo. I know, I felt pretty much klutzy after reading it, too, if it makes you feel any better.

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It makes me feel much better, Ithisham. Together we are representative of the Klutz School of untutored street photography. Our motto: If your photos are not bad enough, you're not being klutzy enough.

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How's the SP coming?
 
It's not just street photographers, Ihtisham. We could count whoever took this wedding photo as a member of our brotherhood:

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or this one:

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or this:

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Or even this:

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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
 
fad said:
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xtoph wrote:


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There's a fine photo here. But I had to use the title as a clue to sleuth it out and then consciously reprogram my brain to find it.
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thanks. indeed, this is one of those shots which 'works' much better if you reach a minimum threshold of viewing detail, which unfortunately is somewhere just above the default display at dpr. that, plus my usual fondness for dumb puns, was why i gave it the title i did--i wanted the title to nudge viewers to notice what she was actually doing.

this was made on a bit of a frustrating day, when quite a few shots i was sure would work splendidly turned out only so-so.

oh well.
 
xtoph said:
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unusual, as usual. the echo of the curved window frame in the woman's hair and scoop neck top are effective. i am a bit surprised that this works, what with the bleakness and the predominance of shadows.
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Thank you.


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leave it to a nederlander to take a riverboat in the desert... ; )
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it was just half an hour lunch on the boat.. :)
 
But only this one has the graphic genius of the 4 I already posted:

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There is something wrong with me. I only just now realized the bride is topless. This is embarrassing, but typical of the Klutz School.

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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
 
I saw Blind Date on cable recently. Kim Basinger plays a shy woman who goes insane if she has anything to drink and becomes uncontrollably wild. This happened in real life to Adrienne Samen, who started her wedding day like this:

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And ended with this photo:

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which was her mug shot in the police station, after she was arrested to going bonkers at the end of the reception and then attacking the police.

(When last heard from, she'd been happily married for 8 year and had a 2 year old daughter. Men are saints ;>\ )



Then there was the engagement ring cleverly concealed in a Wendy's milk shake

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These and other tales of woe are here:

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There is much good material available from the Klutz School of photography.

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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
 
Deepak Kaw said:
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interesting shot, deepak. the boy is well-placed on the bg and his elevation is fortuitous. the woman's expression and hand are good. i would have liked to have seen more space on the left and bottom; the frame is looking a bit arbitrary to me, both overly tall and biased up and right. maybe the text of the signs would help to justify that framing if i could understand it.

the scooter looks fairly new, and i presume she's on a cell phone--i wonder if you really needed to go with the sepia-toning in this case? it seems like it is pushing the issue of an old-timey nostalgic look, and maybe you don't need to.
 
great subject, and once again i like the sense of space in your shot. her posture is very good, but perhaps the placement could have been a bit more perfect, to balance and extend the blue theme.
 
always a pleasure to peruse some of hcb's work. i have to applaud mr marelli for his enthusiasm and his generosity in sharing what he sees in hcb's photographs. contrary to marelli's suggestion that description is pointless, i think that describing precisely what one see's in a photo is always useful, because despite the homilies about the universal language of photography, i think few things are so mysterious as what different people see in the same photograph.

while i think it is fairly evident that some of what marelli sees in this case is mainly what he is determined to see, it is still useful, in places insightful even.

i will note that marelli seems to emphasize line and neglect tone and massed form, but that is probably in keeping with hcb himself, who really did seem to concentrate on line much of the time.
 
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