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"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
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"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
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…and a pedestrian on the crosswalk to the left of the bicycle crossing L to R would have made it practically perfect!
#1: Man, all that wasted space!
…OK, so there's a chalkboard in the bg, but I think you could have cropped ¾ of the bg and still made the point!
#2 would be good in B&W also!
- Wil
You definitely are not a 'space man,' are you Wil?
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
I'm of the "Fill The Frame" school…
…you could also say it's not what you put in the frame, but what you leave out!
- Wil
#2 would be much better if the Vespa was doing a wheelie
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and what would that "point" be?
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#2 doesn't do it for me, but I confess that Vespa's have never been part of my life.
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Funny you should say that, because one of the things that got me to post that image - an image I'm a bit unsure of - was that as I look at it the Vespa seems to be taking flight. I know it's an optical illusion of some sort, but...
And by the way...I took the photo over the handle bars of my Vespa 150, waiting for the light to change.
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"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
In my view, the "point" is the intense expression on the woman's face and her piercing eyes. I'm missing the point of the vignetting & the barrel distortion which IMNSHO looks like an accident, and I think cropping might improve the picture:
Something like:
…or even:
- Wil
(BTW, B.D. if you don't like, I'll remove…)
I'll step in. The whole point of this image is the dead space and the vignetting and the barrel distortion and the horizontal line bisecting the frame and only then her face and the stare emanating from that vacuum of space.
Gut reaction is that she's a lecturer and a passionate one at that. Gotta keep the chalkboard.
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I'll have you know I take plenty shots over the handle bars of my Harley Hertiage Softail and at speed too!!
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Sorry but for me the crop just turns it into a portrait of a woman I do not know. Left as posted it is
much more, JMNSHO
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Well, even cropped, the chalkboard still features…
OK, you make a valid point. I guess that I missed the "dead space" thing, to me it just looks like poor technique. The face and the stare caught my attention straight away, anything else being superfluous. I suppose I should focus more on content rather than technique, although then there's always the danger of making excuses for poor technique…
…and B.D. glad to see that you're only taking photos from your Vespa; now if you were texting!
- Wil
Thanks everyone for all the remarks, cogent and not.
Cropping's fine, Wil, but in this case it just turns the image into a head shot of a pissed off subject. I think the space is needed. (Not sure about the vignetting, but the distortion comes from having been shot at an angle from below.)
This is, of course, yet another example of bringing our own interpretation to a scene. The woman is not an academic, but is one of my fellow PR folks here. She and I are great friends - she calls me her closest 'girl friend' in the office
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
It really is a great photo because of the "rules" broken. I am always a fan of negative space and often dead center rule breaking if done well, as it is here.
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