Faces on the street..
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Okay, because you specifically asked:
1. A drunk is a drunk is a drunk, and it's no secret I feel pretty strongly about not taking or showing this kind of shot because it doesn't tell us anything, and simply holds up to ridicule a person with an illness. The two exceptions to my feeling would be images that themselves tell us something, whether through juxtaposition of elements, composition, or something else, or images taken of a down-and-outer who you have gotten to know, and whose travails you are documenting.
2. This would be much stronger if we could better see the woman's reflection. As it is, we just have a woman standing with her back to us and a suggestion of her reflected in the polished stone. We really don't have allot here.
3. Wonderful shot!!
4. Sorry, but nothing here - just people walking.
Now, before you either yell at me, or get bummed at anyone's saying three of these four have big problems, consider that having one strong image out of four is a 25 percent hit rate, which is extremely good - in the days of film the rule of thumb among LIFE staffers was that they were doing well if they had two "keepers" - images they wanted to keep for themselves, out of 36, or 1-in-18, rather than 1-in-4.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
truth be told, original picture of the drunk was in color, and the reason why I took it was the combination and contrast in colors between the face, shirt and shoes (all had bright distinct colors), but the whole surrounding was drowning in color.. So I kept it BW..
As much as I agree with people not shooting those who are ill, alcoholism is a sign of a weakness, not sickness.. to me that is.
is this (color) version any better for #2?
http://foquesphoto.com/People/Faces-of-the-street/fashion-color/864518483_SMZaJ-L-1.jpg
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I shot this @ 17 mm, with my hand dropped, and just fired series of shots so i wouldn't be spotted
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I always wanted to grab a capture as such, but not a big fan of cities.. so thats why it made its way here.
Truly, I am hoping to create a gallery of "Faces on the street".. basically just captures of candid moments in a stranger's life.. I know it is a large project, but it will give me a theme to work with
And I ALWAYS welcome critique. I would prefer to hear that the shot sucks rather than nothing at all. How else can I learn?
thanks to people such as yourself, I have gotten where I am right now.
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Yup - definitely keep at it. As to the color version of the reflection, I have the same problem either way - not enough there.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed