Life is a beach

RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
edited July 28, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2010
    Nothing like a shade in bright day
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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2010
    …dunno about the surf, but he's certainly got the sun and the sand!

    …looks like life is good!

    Nice job!

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2010
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  • GrainbeltGrainbelt Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2010
    I find myself drawn to the cyclist and the woman's head. A slightly different composition or crop might lend more impact to the man in the shade.
  • FlowermanFlowerman Registered Users Posts: 141 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    A crop just above the umbrella would be more direct. Great capture.
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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    I dunno about the crop…

    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…

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited July 26, 2010
    Thanks for the comments, everyone. Here's another shot I took of the same scene:

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    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. ne_nau.gif
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  • FlowermanFlowerman Registered Users Posts: 141 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    I really like the second shot. IMO the umbrella is the guiding lite - it makes the story - "I can't get to the beach - but I am still going to get some sun and shut eye."
    ED
    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.
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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    I think I prefer the 1st shot, although in the 2nd it looks like he might be on his mobile…

    …to the girl in the 1st shot????

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
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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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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    It must be a union job.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    Seefutlung wrote: »
    It must be a union job.


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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited July 26, 2010
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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 mwink.gif.
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    ne_nau.gifI could swear I posted a comment on this photo this morning...

    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. rolleyes1.gif

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited July 28, 2010
    Flyinggina wrote: »

    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. rolleyes1.gif

    Virginia

    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." mwink.gif
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