One from 2010-02-27

spb13

I am still trying to find my eye for this, but I think this one isn't too bad. What do you think?

wrzwaldo

Subject works for me, B&W works, but that flag in the foreground was distracting me. I wanted to see how it would look without it (quick and dirty). Hope you don't mind.

spb13

wrzwaldo wrote:

Subject works for me, B&W works, but that flag in the foreground was distracting me. I wanted to see how it would look without it (quick and dirty). Hope you don't mind.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the pole is a bit of a problem, but I think editing it out kind of goes against the nature of the genre.

Richard

spb13 wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the pole is a bit of a problem, but I think editing it out kind of goes against the nature of the genre.

To clone or not to clone? I don't think that's the real question, since I don't think wrzwaldo was saying that's a good solution here. Rather, the point is to train yourself to be aware of extraneous or distracting things while you are shooting. It's harder than it sounds, since the human brain is remarkably good at filtering out things that are in our field of vision but are not of interest at the moment. The camera is less forgiving--what it sees it what you get. I don't know what you were going for exactly, but I doubt that it was a pole blocking part of the woman's face. You saw some interesting lines here--which is good--but missed the elephant in the frame. Keep shooting. With practice it gets a bit easier.

michswiss

I almost commented on this last night, but fell asleep. But, I couldn't agree more with Richard.

Patti

Been there, done that. Richard is so right. My brain ignores this sort of thing ALL the time.

Richard

The phenomenon is known to psychologists as inattentional or perceptual blindness. A famous experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris had subjects watch a short video clip of people in white and black tee shirts passing a basketball back and forth. They were asked to count the number of times the white team's ball changed hands. Try it yourself. Here's a link.


Don't read the rest of this post till you have done it.











OK, did you see the gorilla? Half of all the subjects did not.

spb13

Thanks everybody. I knew it was a problem when I processed the image, but since they are on every single cart at Ikea it is to some extent part of the story.

Here is another shot I took the same day.