Exit

bdcolen

RSL

Cute kid, BD.

TonyCooper

Titles are not my hobby horse. I think "No title" as a title is
kind of cop-out to avoid controversy, and I can usually make
the association if the title is less-than-perfectly descriptive.

But, I don't like it when I can't figure out how, in any way,
the title doesn't apply. It distracts me from the real
subject: the image.

How does "Exit" apply?

damonff

Top left: exit sign.

Quincy T

damonff wrote: »

Top left: exit sign.

I like the title. It made me look around a bit and absorb the image, something I regularly fail to do in my amateurism.

damonff

Quincy T wrote: »

I like the title. It made me look around a bit and absorb the image, something I regularly fail to do in my amateurism.

I am pretty sure that was BD's intent.

lensmole

The English word "exit" comes directly from the Latin word meaning "(he or she) goes out.

This is exactly what happens when I view this image, if their is a lesson to be learned from this image
for me it would be to pay more attention to back grounds when composing images and also to be able to understand the image better and improve observation skills with greater detail when viewing images.

TonyCooper

damonff wrote: »

Top left: exit sign.

Missed it completely.

bdcolen

damonff wrote: »

I am pretty sure that was BD's intent.

Good call, Damon. And as Tony knows - I think - I tend to skip titles, which I believe are, or should be, superfluous if the image is any good.

bdcolen

Or...are thy exiting childhood? Or, is it close to the day's exit? Or, did I just need a title, so rather than call this Blackberry 976, I called it Exit?

Truth be told, I like the exit sign in its weird location.

TonyCooper

bdcolen wrote: »

Good call, Damon. And as Tony knows - I think - I tend to skip titles, which I believe are, or should be, superfluous if the image is any good.

That's what misled me. You usually skip the title or have one that is
appropriate. I completely missed the EXIT sign, so I was confused.

Maybe you reinforced your position that titles aren't necessary or
that they should be carefully thought out.

They tend to give the viewer a preconception of they are supposed
to see. As I learned in "The Boxer", that can sometimes be a bad
thing.

I'll continue to use titles, but I'll think them out a bit more.

Richard

I caught the exit sign, but I can't figure out what the kid is holding--it looks vaguely bird-like. Weirdly shaped menu?

RSL

Not weirdly shaped, Richard; partially struck by the sun so that it looks weirdly shaped.

Richard

Ah, right. I see it now--one of the "wings" was just shadow and the other was somebody's head in the background. Oh well, it did remind me of the Maltese Falcon there for a moment.

michswiss

I'm pretty sure I recognise the location. Shooting through the windows of the Au Bon Pain (Is it still that?) through to Harvard Sqaure / Mass Ave. I think I can see the chess tables. Fwiw, I think I would have called it "Toast" as that's what that big grey thing in the kid's hand looks like. That or this image should be...

bdcolen

Jen - YES! YES! YES! You absolutely nailed the location. As to what's in the kid's hand, Jen and Richard, I think it's a foam case for something like an iPad. But I would stake neither my life nor my reputation on it.

And Tony, I still feel as I have about titles. I just though the idea of calling the photo exit was somehow amusing. As to The Boxer - nothing confusing about that: it was a photo of a boxer, regardless of the fact that some with serious vision problems can't see it.

Yaflyyadie

To be sincere, the title made me look around to find why it was called "exit" and then the subject struck me straight in the eye.
I suppose that was the intention of it.
Learned another trick from you, BD. Colen.
Thanks much.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y.