Outside Inside

bdcolen

lizzard_nyc

I've been waiting to see if anyone would comment.

I feel like this is a social commentary, yet it could be nothing more than just two woman on the inside and a man on the outside and nothing more. I don't want to turn it into a race/social demographics thing, but that's what came to mind when I first saw it.

The shot gets you thinking.

thoth

I also considered a racial contrast in this shot although that may demonstrate some prejudice in me as the viewer. At any rate, these priveleged white women get all the breaks don't they?

Immediately following my first inclination I asked myself how the shot would be different if it were a white man outside. How about a woman? Does the outsider's color matter to the message? I think it does (for many of us anyway). Coming from a small rural community I believe I am predisposed to observing racial contrasts in images. Were this a white man I would likely imagine a sexual contrast instead. How about the rest of you?

rainbow

I like the contrast between the inside/outside, whether b/w or socio-economic status. The triangle formed with the three makes for a strong composition.

This looks like a technically difficult shot with the indoor lighting combined with the high contrast outdoor sunlight.

Mitchell

I love the triangle here. So strong.

I'm just not sure about the focus. I can understand the difficulty of selecting the focus point here, but the ladies are just too blurry for me and the details in the truck tires are just too sharp.

bdcolen

Mitchell wrote: »

I love the triangle here. So strong.

I'm just not sure about the focus. I can understand the difficulty of selecting the focus point here, but the ladies are just too blurry for me and the details in the truck tires are just too sharp.

A more than reasonable take - I'm - obviously - not bothered by the women being out of focus, but I should have gone for a shallower dof so that as little as possible in front of, and behind, the man would be out of focus.

As to the comments about white, black, rich, poor...Yes. Bring what you will to this and take what you will from it. Certainly the women white women are socioeconomically better off than the black man - but as thoth notes, it could have been a white man. But I hoped the image would provoke these sorts of questions.

And the triangle...? Yes. Again.

Richard

bdcolen wrote: »

A more than reasonable take - I'm - obviously - not bothered by the women being out of focus, but I should have gone for a shallower dof so that as little as possible in front of, and behind, the man would be out of focus

Um, you lost me here, BD. I think I know what you meant to say, but what came out was contradictory. My feeling is that the shot could have worked with a very deep DOF so that everything was in focus, or as one of your sharp-focus-only-in-the-distance shots, in which case the women aren't really blurry enough. You could fix that in post, but I know you won't.