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Two light and shadow shots
Richard
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Was the figure that created the shadow walking into or out of shot? If it was into the shot then another exposure half a second later might have got you their entire silhouette on the first tree which would have been a great shot. As it it is I love the light but would be tempted to go for a tighter crop on the figure and trees.
No. 2.
Again great light but the railings at the runner's feet just detract from the scene. I'm also not convinced that the figure on the right adds anything. Maybe a different vantage point would work better?
Looks like a time and a place with a lot of potential
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brook Atkinson- 1951
maybe crop from bottom (curb) and up to right hand tree.
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Of these two, I think I would be tempted to crop #1 to a horizontal. At this size, it seems to be more about the trees (and the light) the brighter tree on the left pulls my eyes away from the reader. I do like the shadow at the base of the left hand tree, though!
I think I'm with Benjamin on #2.
Can't wait to see more!!
Virginia
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." Diane Arbus
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While in Paris, I saw an exhibit of amazing work by the French photographer, Willy Ronis, who died last year just short of 100 years old. At some point in an interview late in his life, he mentioned that sometimes he saw a shot that he wanted but lost it before he could take it. He shrugged and said that he just moved on. Basically he didn't have time to regret what didn't work.
Of course, we take more "almost" shots now that photographers did in the film days because it doesn't cost us anything but disk space.
So every time I see misses and near misses up on my screen and every time I simply don't get the camera in position fast enough, I try not to be discouraged but to just move on to the next photo opportunity.
Virginia
PS the video on the link is almost 10 minutes long but interesting if you have the time. At about the 3/4 point, there are some photos taken in New York in the 1950's that would fit right into this forum.
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OK, so I cropped #1 as a 3x2:
You guys were right.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
The color adds drama.
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