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pretty adorable. nice find.

i don't really understand the choice to frame in so closely--i would prefer not to decapitate the figure in the bg; to let in a bit more of the case in the window, which makes a nice counterpoint to the bag; and to show enough of the bike under the bag to be visually unambiguous.

but the dog is expressive, and it is an interesting trend, how many people these days carry their pets around.
 
i like the way the coat flares out, forming almost an inverted mirror of the perspective wedge of sky above. the hats are nice too.

it looks to me like the camera is tilted slightly up, which is unfortunate here as it makes the perspective look a little bit unnatural (and maybe loses a bit of the legs). but i understand the difficulties you are working with.
 
the sisters are always more challenging to photograph than one would expect; one wants to get detail in the faces, but the costumes are so large, they are hard to fit in the frame. in the first shot, i think the perspective might have helped you to cram it all inside the frame, if you'd managed to get just a bit lower, or wider, or maybe even used more tilt to exploit the diagonal. but in both shots, you do have good expressions and the costumes are certainly interesting.

thanks for posting--
 
you almost make me think it's one big dance party all the time over there… which sounds kind of nice...

i really like the expressions of the two main figures, and the shadow with the hat. i am having more trouble with the overall composition, and the figure in bg at right. it seems to help to me if you kind of radically crop in from the right side, getting rid of half of the face in the bg. this de-emphasizes that figure for me, and puts more emphasis on the shadow, as if that is of what the women are reacting to.

what do you think?
 
this one has gorgeous texture and atmosphere. i could wish that the face fell in the zone of sharper bits, but not sure it would matter much.
 
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En passant
 
xtoph said:
I like the red, white, and blue columns.

Might have more space at the top of the frame than it needs-not sure.
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Thank you!

I wanted to keep intact the line of lamps on the wall of the building - any crop at the top would disconnect this line and the leftest white lit vertical strip of the wall. Probably I would expand this shot up to the square proportions - if it was possible :)
 
Zubu Barunda said:
I think that this first out of focus photo works better than the next one, but I am not sure that I understand your artistic goal and motivation in going OOF. Perhaps the effect would work better in colour.
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I’ll try to explain my intention with my poor English.

Almost every picture has an oof part called “bokeh”. And the more the shallow the better. In a second thought this is an artificial trick to emphasize the the sharp object. In real life you don’t see it this way with your eyes.

On the other side, the sharpness we see today with modern cameras is extreme. The “pixel peeping”. I, for myself. With my poor sight don’t see the world that sharp. And let me say, sometimes the over sharpness disturbs me. Looking the pictures of old masters I enjoy them so much! And not because I forgive the old cameras, they are good this way! I like the softness!!

Another reason. Beside photography I love paintings. And especially the impressionist. The abstract. The oof photography reminds me those paintings. I find it artistic and a challenge to find a theme that will fit this style and to struggle with the amount of softness. I’m on the beginning of this try.

Here some more examples:

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what do you think Zubu?

thanks i advance

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