Another untitled from today

FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
edited October 24, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2010
    Would love to know if this one works better for folks than the first picture I posted of the same subjects. A friend has suggested that I crop it so that the top of the sign is removed and also to place the women so that two thirds of the photo is to the right of the sign. I haven't tried it yet, but would value your thoughts.

    Virginia
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2010
    Flyinggina wrote: »
    Would love to know if this one works better for folks than the first picture I posted of the same subjects. A friend has suggested that I crop it so that the top of the sign is removed and also to place the women so that two thirds of the photo is to the right of the sign. I haven't tried it yet, but would value your thoughts.

    Virginia

    I do like this one too Virginia.
    I like the suggestion too--obviously not cutting out the hands though (the fingertips), so some of the sign would still be there, but maybe right to the horizontal line of the sign. This would make it a very natural looking diptych, almost as if two completely stories are going on in the same shot--I like it already.

    I know the story :) and I don't know that this shot would make me guess exactly either.

    clap.gif Another winner in my opinion--and I think an even better one.
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  • misterbmisterb Banned Posts: 601 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2010
    She looks like a "Lladro" figurine..
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited October 22, 2010
    Flyinggina wrote: »
    Would love to know if this one works better for folks than the first picture I posted of the same subjects. A friend has suggested that I crop it so that the top of the sign is removed and also to place the women so that two thirds of the photo is to the right of the sign. I haven't tried it yet, but would value your thoughts.

    Virginia
    They're both good. For me, the first is only about the connection between the two women, while the second adds more urban vibe to the mix. I guess it depends on what story you want to tell.

    As for the crop, I would like the black spots on the sign to be gone, but I would think long and hard before eliminating from the left. You've got some nice repetition of vertical lines in the frame, which adds visual interest. Maybe try a pano crop to take off the top? ne_nau.gif
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  • sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2010
    perfect as is. street is street. the sign is round like the heads, the street going off into the distance gives perspective and context. the hands, mid-motion, add a lot, also.
    Sara

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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2010
    Thanks for the comments, Sara. It is good to hear from you. I've missed seeing your pictures.

    So now here is a crop version of the picture, in which a photographer instructs her subject on how to arrange her hair. As the picture is in black and white, you can't appreciate that the photographer is not only wearing plaid pants but red plain pants,which seems totally un-French to me. (Of cousre, I don't know if she is French or not.)

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  • sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2010
    Flyinggina wrote: »
    Thanks for the comments, Sara. It is good to hear from you. I've missed seeing your pictures.

    So now here is a crop version of the picture, in which a photographer instructs her subject on how to arrange her hair. As the picture is in black and white, you can't appreciate that the photographer is not only wearing plaid pants but red plain pants,which seems totally un-French to me. (Of cousre, I don't know if she is French or not.)

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    Virginia

    Thank you, Virginia - I'm haven't gone far...you'll be hearing from me...stay tuned.
    Sara

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  • Numbers GuyNumbers Guy Registered Users Posts: 73 Big grins
    edited October 22, 2010
    Weighing in late I know, but this shot has a great feel to it. I don't think it would be the same in color. Nice job.
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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 23, 2010
    This and the other capture an interesting interaction between the two... BUT I cannot get past the pole vertically dividing the image into good/bad sides. Only workaround is maybe a square crop on the other shot...
  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2010
    rainbow wrote: »
    This and the other capture an interesting interaction between the two... BUT I cannot get past the pole vertically dividing the image into good/bad sides. Only workaround is maybe a square crop on the other shot...

    Appreciate your comment.

    Personally, I don't mind the pole. In fact, I rather like it there. Perhaps I used it a little too aggressively to stylize the environment. (Stylize is probably not the right word, but it is all I can think of at the moment!)

    And maybe you have put your finger on why BD didn't like the first of the pictures I posed of the subjects. (Although he has not commented on this specific photo, I'm assuming he would have a similar reaction.)

    If there was a great picture to be taken (and, although I do like the two I have posted - I don't rate them as outstanding captures), the situation needed to be "worked" more than I was able to accomplish at the time. My pictures were grabbed on the run with no chance to change perspective and no time to watch the situation develop.

    I guess I am sayng that, on reflection, I can see that I left too much on the table. Think how interesting it might have been to see the photographer's face while she was telling her model what to do with her long hair.

    Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughtful comments, Patti, and all the other comments, positive and not, that I received on the model/photog photos.

    It really is a gift to a fellow photographer when we take the time to respond to one of his/her photographs. It does help to see through the eyes of others.

    Thank you everyone. iloveyou.gif

    Virginia
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