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She Doesn't Hear The Music

TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
edited December 16, 2011 in Street and Documentary
One from today with an inoffensive title:

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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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    toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2011
    Good eye Tony.

    questions: So who's the subject? The guitarist? The girl? both?; who should be in focus?

    Nice contrast in the conversion
    Rags
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    TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    torags wrote: »
    Good eye Tony.

    questions: So who's the subject? The guitarist? The girl? both?; who should be in focus?

    Nice contrast in the conversion

    The girl is intended to be the primary subject, but I don't
    see a reason to make the guitar player secondary by being
    out-of-focus.

    Maybe, though, you're saying that neither is in focus. At
    1/125th at 5.6 both should be in pretty much in focus when
    they are this close together. (The camera was set to
    shutter speed )
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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    RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    What difference does it make who should be in focus? Both are close enough that the rather weak point comes across loud and clear. If the girl were on the other side of the guitarist and the guitarist were looking toward the girl there'd be an interaction that'd make a stronger point. But not much stronger.
    Russ Lewis
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    TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    RSL wrote: »
    What difference does it make who should be in focus? Both are close enough that the rather weak point comes across loud and clear. If the girl were on the other side of the guitarist and the guitarist were looking toward the girl there'd be an interaction that'd make a stronger point. But not much stronger.


    That might be a stretch to set up. The guitarist is blind.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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    RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    Okay, Tony, but there's really no indication of that in the picture. The shades don't tell you. Guys strumming on the street often wear shades.
    Russ Lewis
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    toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    TonyCooper wrote: »
    That might be a stretch to set up. The guitarist is blind.

    :D:D:D

    125+ @5.6 would be my choice, but my monitor sees the girl a little OOF . If so I wonder if your focus point slipped


    Rags
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    TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    torags wrote: »


    :D:D:D

    125+ @5.6 would be my choice, but my monitor sees the girl a little OOF . If so I wonder if your focus point slipped



    Dunno. The original photo was a wider view since I was using my Nikon
    35mm 1.8 prime lens. There was a bicycle (not the blind guitarist's)
    chained to a fence at the left, but I cropped that out.

    I had been eying the bicycle and the guitarist wondering if I
    could get a shot that showed the irony of a blind man with a
    bicycle, but saw the girl and went for that shot.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
    http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
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