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ihtisham said:
Haha! Good catch.

Ihtisham
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I've been asked if I arranged this. I did not!

Those who live in NYC know that we don't touch stuff on street any more, especially wood - bedbugs!
 
I prefer the crop of the first and the processing of the second one. Usually, I like to see context, place, the 'where'. But in this portrait the bg elements draw me away from her eyes, without adding enough to compensate.

Sal
 
Fun. Probably got censored because you can't have white boards walking around unclothed.

Sal
 
All of them are fine images, but the first and last are unique, and transcend the merely 'interesting' or 'beautiful'.

Sal
 
maxgor said:
Slavery

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Great shot.

When you take it to full screen it gives it a whole new look, with the "fifth face" looking straight at you, or me in this case. This more than likely appeals to me because I flatly refuse to own or use a mobile phone and it's only the real things/conversations in life that have meaning for me.

thanks for posting.

rusty

forgot to mention, has a great directional flow to the left.

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Easyrider was not satisfied with the compositional clarity of my first Crosswalk photo, here's another for his and your perusal. I think I like this one better. I have no idea where the other leg is...

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i believe these glasses are actually a thing . somewhere i have another shot from a couple years ago with them that also worked pretty well, but i don't have those images online.

thanks for commenting--she was dancing to music on her cell phone, rather fast actually, and i thought she would be more extroverted, considering. but evidently not.
 
skanter said:
Somehow the photo seemed so strange to me that haloing wasn't an issue that concerned me. I hadn't considered that people would think the figure was superimposed.
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well, maybe come at it from a different perspective: what does the haloing add to or do for the picture that the picture needs? if it isn't helping, why risk it?
skanter said:
Do others agree?
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for me, the first shot would benefit from focus on the person's face. the reflections don't quite carry the scene. i am also not quite getting the framing, which seems loose top and left, but cramped on the lower edge.

in the second picture, i like that the rectangular archway/passageway isn't parallel. that is unusual and almost spooky.

the third shot is the most interesting to me, but: the blob lower left is distracting; the guy staring back at us makes the shot feel rather static to me; i'd like to see the curve of the stone archway; the tilt is a bit haphazard. what i do like, is the straight bars at interesting angles, and the curve of the side/back of the chair, which contrasts very nicely with the railings.
 
Easy Rider said:
It looks how the street looks in real life, but I'll change the rotation and get back to you guys in the thread with how it turns out.
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if you think about it, you'll realize it didn't look that way. the verticals are tilted consistently (both sides of the frame) more than 4 degrees. correcting them doesn't level the street at the top of the hill; no doubt that really is sloped.

it is possible of course that it felt that way. and how you want to present it is ultimately up to you; lines in a photo don't necessarily need to obey gravity. but when they don't my rule of thumb is that there should be a visual reason for it, and ideally that reason should be communicated to the viewer. not sure in this case that happens.
Easy Rider said:
I've just learned how to do selective rather than global adjustments so some of the problem highlight areas should be tamed also.
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dodging and burning, especially in bw, is a great thing.
Easy Rider said:
Cheers though, I got this as a 5 second quickie grab if I'm honest but got lucky and like the symytry of the cars, the buildings and yes the shadow... It's good to be good and also good to be lucky :)
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i like the shadow and the symmetry of the cars as well; correcting the frame loses a lot of the right edge of the frame, which is a shame. the woman at the center doesn't do a lot for me; she's too small in frame to contribute much detail, and too large to be discounted as a graphic blip, for my sensibility.
 
a striking face in either case. i like the burst of light behind the head in the first one, and her expression seems more relaxed. in the second, the two bg faces balance somewhat, and the added tension in her tilted head is interesting (but not sure which i would choose on that account alone).

the face behind her on the right is distracting to me in both cases, but especially the first--the cut off eye is really disconcerting. i might try to deal with it by coaxing that part of the picture to blow out more, to suggest the light flooding out of the bg. it would take some work to do well; probably mask the fg figure and throw some negative dehaze on the bg layer, with a gradient from the top, or something similar approximated with dodge+neg contrast+neg clarity+white point boost brush.

but the second one might work out better anyway--her face is centered better, where the first one is scrunched a bit to the left. de-emphasizing the bg face on the right would probably still help.
 
you shared these with us before , actually--i bet you have some other fresh pictures you could post?

still looks like a fun day--

i've noticed that your captions/narration often contain a lot of the story of your photos. it is interesting to have the information--but i also think that pushing to include more of the content visually would be worthwhile. for instance, with mr drum, we're cropped in pretty tight, which makes his coordinating role somewhat harder to see, possibly.
 
ihtisham said:
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Thanks for looking! Comments welcome.
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i like the set--again!--but the two above are standouts for me. the first one is straightforward but i like the plaid and it feels so very wet. the other one is the most complex frame, and i think it resolves beautifully. i would make a small ccw rotation to correct the roof of the building--i don't want to see the sliver above the red stripe on the right side, and ideally, if there were a little bit more on top to bring the yellow-red tabs into level, that would be grand. again, this is a situation where i think the verticals are ultimately more crucial than the horizontals, but the street can be a little bit tilted if the buildings square up.
 
xtoph said:
skanter said:
Somehow the photo seemed so strange to me that haloing wasn't an issue that concerned me. I hadn't considered that people would think the figure was superimposed.
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well, maybe come at it from a different perspective: what does the haloing add to or do for the picture that the picture needs? if it isn't helping, why risk it?
xtoph said:
Do others agree?
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I actually hadn't noticed it. The photo seemed detached from reality anyway.

For me, the issue is whether it works or not (I'm not sure if it does) but the "haloing" doesn't really affect the overall impact that much. YMMV

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David, John, Sam, xtoph,

Thanks for your thoughts and comments. The extended arm theories are imaginative and inventive. In reality I think the youngster was just holding his hand out over a water jet.

Not sure about the "hdr- effect" as none was used. I did reduce the saturation in some of the colours as this seemed to show up the water jets to better effect and increase the sense of depth. Maybe this is what you're seeing?

Alan.
 
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