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>>> Street Photography eXchange #71 <<<
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solveproblems
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I tried. the hand disappears
1drey
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fad
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My intantaneous reaction was like yours. So, since I had a prime on, I went back a few steps and shot a second wider shot and make a choice later.
There are two problems with a wider framing
- things are not set up optimally for either vertical or horizontal framing --if it were an arranged shot, we could solve that, but not on the street.
- the dog's head is small, but it is the artistic heart of the image. Making it to small would reduce our identification with, and sympathy for the dog. It would be more of a graphic object.
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Still, if you feel called on to do this kind of photography, please do so without shame. Remember that failure is the price of success. It sounds like my desire to do night shots. Years of lousy and disappointing pictures to me, until I learned how to make them work. Nothing taught me anything but all my failures. Likewise, someday I will be able to make better contre jour shots. Right now, I'm doing the essential --learning what does not work so well.
And please, don't hesitate to share your failures with us, so we can learn too, and maybe even fail together, but with mutual love, and mutual growth as photographers.
All the best.
And please, don't hesitate to share your failures with us, so we can learn too, and maybe even fail together, but with mutual love, and mutual growth as photographers.
All the best.
solveproblems
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It would matter.
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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
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Coming from the master of BW highlights, that's a real compliment.Sweet subject
The bokeh and flare control of the 50/1.8G is on display here.
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
fad
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Not your worst photo, Still. But this one really sucks.
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
fad
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
fad
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that beggars and homeless people are so over-shot and ubiquitous and easy to shoot because they are static, and often performing, that one should accept severe demerits just for choosing them as a subject. An alarm should go off.but i think that cropping partly gives a more explanation to the shadow.Have you thought of cropping the figure on the left completely, leaving the shadow only?
thanks. very good.
Just like performers, and sexy women, one should demand of oneself something extra or exceptional to consider them of interest. There should be a high hurdle to jump over.
I think the center triangle might qualify, if cropped as a square. But that would be a very radical crop.
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
fad
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This picture brings me great joy. The left 20% is exceptional. The empty area on the bottom right weakens it a bit, but the brown nicely matches the color of the boy's shirt.
Nicely done.
Nicely done.
Zubu Barunda
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With a web of wires and cables visible in the background it looks as if Arachne with her companion climbed down to the street to suck the blood out of we mortals with Still being first on their menu.Not your worst photo, Still. But this one really sucks.
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Capitalist class inequality - Washington Square
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Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
solveproblems
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nice!
Still Young
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hi FadI'm going to go out on a limb and say that beggars and homeless people are so over-shot and ubiquitous and easy to shoot because they are static, and often performing, that one should accept severe demerits just for choosing them as a subject. An alarm should go off.but i think that cropping partly gives a more explanation to the shadow.Have you thought of cropping the figure on the left completely, leaving the shadow only?
thanks. very good.
Just like performers, and sexy women, one should demand of oneself something extra or exceptional to consider them of interest. There should be a high hurdle to jump over.
I think the center triangle might qualify, if cropped as a square. But that would be a very radical crop.
--
Frank
shot in downtown Manhattan.
http://sidewalkshadows.com/blog/ (street photos)
Always view all photos in Gallery or Original Size
I was waiting for this comment. My answer lies in the title of the picture. The “palm”, not “a beggar’. My interest was the palm of the beggar against the one in the shadow which I think is interesting. The first picture was only a preface to the position of the hand. Generally I too don’t mess with pictures of the poor if there isn’t a justification. If you state not to show people in bad condition this is another story. As I can recall you have defended it in the past with one of your picture [the disable].
Thanks for your comments.
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