New School, Old School

bdcolen

thoth

I like this, B.D. The girl up front is blurry, her skinned is unevenly toned and her hair is muddied, giving me the impression that she is perhaps less successful/attractive/wealthy/etc than the other.

bdcolen

Or - She is blurred by the lens, which would effect the skin tone, hair, etc.....although I would guess that Left Girl is more affluent than Right girl. But the point here was iPhone and paper paper.

thoth

bdcolen wrote: »

Or - She is blurred by the lens, which would effect the skin tone, hair, etc.....although I would guess that Left Girl is more affluent than Right girl. But the point here was iPhone and paper paper.

I got the suggestion, but that wasn't striking to me. The way the camera affected the front girl was.

Richard

Sorry, but this has (very quickly) become a cliche. It might still be possible to come up with a juxtaposition of e-readers and paper that works, but I think it would require more of a difference between the people than is apparent here--age, dress--dunno, but something more.

bfjr

I did one just like that a few days ago.
this one's better ! :cry

bdcolen

Thanks Richard, Ben - I wasn't looking for, seeing, any real difference between the young women - the one reading the paper Times could well be farther up the socio-economic ladder than the one on the iPhone - it's really, really hard to judge things like this based on clothing any more. ;-) I just liked the iPhone and the paper.

TonyCooper

Cliche or not, good photos work because they have good composition
and control of the image.

This one has good composition and good control with depth of field.

ian408

I like this. It's also demonstrative of the way in which we collect information these days.

As far as affluence, these days it's difficult to judge. Around here, jeans and a t-shirt are just as indicative of wealth as they are of poverty. Conversely, nicely dressed and made up could just as easily be someone living paycheck to paycheck.

bdcolen

ian408 wrote: »

I like this. It's also demonstrative of the way in which we collect information these days.

As far as affluence, these days it's difficult to judge. Around here, jeans and a t-shirt are just as indicative of wealth as they are of poverty. Conversely, nicely dressed and made up could just as easily be someone living paycheck to paycheck.

There is a wonderful, if apocryphal story told about Grace Slick from the heyday of the Jefferson Airplane and the 60s rock scene in the Bay Area. Supposedly she went into a Rolls Dealer looking to buy a Rolls - of course - looking scrungilly Height Ashbury. The snooty sales person wouldn't give her the time of day. So, as the story goes, she left, and returned a few days later 'dressed like a lady.' The sales help was oh-so-happy-to-help-her, and after the sales contract was signed, she paid for the car with rolls of pennies.

It may, like so much from and of that period be fiction, but it is a great story.

ian408

bdcolen wrote: »

There is a wonderful, if apocryphal story told about Grace Slick from the heyday of the Jefferson Airplane and the 60s rock scene in the Bay Area. Supposedly she went into a Rolls Dealer looking to buy a Rolls - of course - looking scrungilly Height Ashbury. The snooty sales person wouldn't give her the time of day. So, as the story goes, she left, and returned a few days later 'dressed like a lady.' The sales help was oh-so-happy-to-help-her, and after the sales contract was signed, she paid for the car with rolls of pennies.

It may, like so much from and of that period be fiction, but it is a great story.

Several friends and I went to a restaurant in Auburn, CA. We had been riding motorcycles all day and as you can imagine, weren't exactly dressed to impress. Anyway, one of the waitresses made it be known she didn't want to wait on us and we were seated away from the other patrons. You would never have known our waitress was a part of that conversation. Meal finished, we paid and when the change came, we added a crisp $100 bill to the tip-it had the desired effect as our waitress showed the other what she got

lensmole

I agree that you can't judge a book by it's cover . The image portrays isolation and a disconnect between strangers and why because it is easy to isolate in our little worlds.I do like the image and the composition but this is how I perceive this image.:D

bdcolen

Well, that makes sense Mole - all the subway images I've shot over the past eight years or so have been focused - sorry - on the theme "Alone Together," or the isolation of the crowd.

lensmole

I also ponder the different experience of each individual in terms of the feel of the paper , the smell of it combined with the ink and such,but then again this is only my experience of the image regardless of the title. thumb

karloznz

I like the shot you have here. It makes me stop and want to look at whats going on here and that key to a good photo.. so I think you have done well