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Richard
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Richard
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…looks like life is good!
Nice job!
- Wil
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I think as is, it isolates the guy under the umbrella, and puts him into context with the outside world (road, cyclist, pedestrian - looks like she's using her mobile), whereas cropped it would lose the sense of where he is (building site), and you'd lose the crane and the piles of wood…
Just my opinion…
- Wil
I think it also works, but I kind of liked the guy on the bike and the little bit of street at the top for context.
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P.S. I see your point about the guy on the bike - it ads another dimention to the shot - but then again it could be a distraction. This is what makes Street Photography so great.
ED
…to the girl in the 1st shot????
- Wil
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Yes sir--FIRST ONE!
This is a great capture. His own little Oasis in what looks like hellish conditions, with the world going on without him.
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It's not easy fitting into that tiny little circle.
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To be fair, I checked the EXIF and the shots were taken during lunch break. Still, it was probably close to 100 degrees out there at the time, so it's hard to image that the umbrella provided much relief. It did make for a fun shot
Whatever.
Now that many hours have passed, I still love this photo. Fun. Makes you think. Offbeat slice of life.
When I answered this morning, I was going to say no to the crop, but I gotta say I like the cropped one too. They are, in the end, two photos each suggesting a slightly different narrative to the viewer.
Which makes me think (as does Liz's Mark's Comics photo) about this thing we are calling street photography and how we see the story and take the picture but also, often, how we look at the picture and frame it to tell the story we saw or, indeed, the story that reveals itself to us after the fact.
Indeed, even with photojournalism, what the photographer chooses to include in the frame in the first place is already editorial.
Just some incoherent thoughts at the end of a long, hard day.
Virginia
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"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." Diane Arbus
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Thanks Virginia.
Indeed. I have to laugh sometimes at all the fuss that's made about Photoshop, given the importance of what the photographer (or photo editor) decides to include or exclude from the frame. Or, to paraphrase my wife, "...photographers are all such liars."