Flying so High

Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
edited October 10, 2009 in Street and Documentary
Old photo shot at Lahore, using 400d and nifty fifty.
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I left so much empty space to convey his state of mind....
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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2009
    Sorry Awais, this one doesn't do anything for me.

    I look closely and see that the chap is smoking, and wonder if the reason that nobody is near him could be that all the other folk are non-smokers…??? eek7.gif

    - Wil

    :PS second thoughts: how about just the head, shoulders & cigarette? Think of the textures & the headgear…
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2009
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Old photo shot at Lahore, using 400d and nifty fifty.
    675185198_UpTCN-L.jpg

    I left so much empty space to convey his state of mind....

    I'm going to make poor Wil crazy, Awais, and say this is one of your better shots. I really like the composition, with the arc of distant people over the empty pavement with your subject at the bottom. I don't know what his state of mind is, but I certainly see isolation in a crowd - which is a reality of urban life. Very niceclap.gifclap.gif
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2009
    Color isn't doing this shot any favors:

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    If not now, when?
  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2009
    I love this shot. The kind of arc/rainbow of people at the top of the frame makes it seem like they're smoke, or mist, or something cool! Great eye and framing.
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2009
    I too like the arch of people over the top of the frame. And while I would have immediately gone to B&W on this shot, you do great work with colour in your images. My only wish would have been a slightly lower perspective to have caught his feet.
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2009
    Thanks everyone. When i wonder about such people i feel like they are worry free and their mind is usually unoccupied so i left huge space on top.
    Lens was 50mm on crop body, i hope i had it on FF to frame it better with his feetmwink.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2009
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Thanks everyone. When i wonder about such people i feel like they are worry free and their mind is usually unoccupied so i left huge space on top.
    Lens was 50mm on crop body, i hope i had it on FF to frame it better with his feetmwink.gif

    No, no no - don't blame the equipment...rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif All the fact that it was a 70 or 80 instead of a 50 means is that you had to step back a bit to get his feet in. You, not the lens, didn't get those feet.rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2009
    bdcolen wrote:
    No, no no - don't blame the equipment...rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif All the fact that it was a 70 or 80 instead of a 50 means is that you had to step back a bit to get his feet in. You, not the lens, didn't get those feet.rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    Hahahaha
    Man, equipment don't speak other wise they would have sued Photographers like me multiple times :D
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