Opinions Please pick of 06

[Sparrow]

I’ve shot about 2000 frames this last year and this one is my favourite. Each time I pass the print, a 12x18 silver duo-tone, it holds my attention and I’m not sure why. It has a bit of a Gastalt thing going on with the lines of the storm drain and the telegraph line suggesting space outside the frame but in a conventional sense the composition is all wrong. Please feel free to give your opinions I don’t take it personally.

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[Sparrow]

Pin hits ground!…………………

It was taken, not shot, with the CV 35mm f1:2.5 “classic”, the second best 35mm lens ever made! anybody?

 

[markinlondon]

Pin hits ground!…………………

It was taken, not shot, with the CV 35mm f1:2.5 “classic”, the second best 35mm lens ever made! anybody?

The picture (not "the shot") is fine, Stewart, although in compositional terms it doesn't quite work for me. The phone box and people are just too small and the other side of the quay(?) just dominates the frame a little too much.
Out of interest, what's the best 35mm lens ever made?

 

[Sparrow]

The picture (not "the shot") is fine, Stewart, although in compositional terms it doesn't quite work for me. The phone box and people are just too small and the other side of the quay(?) just dominates the frame a little too much.
Out of interest, what's the best 35mm lens ever made?

Yes I know everything is in the wrong place but, for me anyway, it works I was hoping someone else “got it” the same way. I was just avoiding a quarrel by saying second best 😀

 

[RayPA]

Stewart, why do you feel the composition is all wrong?

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[Richard Black]

Each has his/her opinion about composition and perspective. We all know this and it is why some discussions generate heat and others nothing at all. I look at this photo and find it balanced with openess on the left and foreground and then the subject just off center. Maybe because a lot of my phots are presented this way is why I like it. I do agree that the focus, as I see it, the people are a bit smaller that I would like, though.

 

[RayPA]

Stewart, this might be one of those cases where the picture needs to be bigger than the small version under the link. Everything in this picture draws my eyes to the sitting girl with the black bra, even the boat on the left side. If you want that, the composition is pretty good. Then I want to see the expression of the other people, I figure they are clearly readable in the 12x18, but almost invisible in the linked-to online version.

My 2 cents ...

I agree. I like the compostion, but this just wants to be big to accommodate the sense of space and allow us to see the detail on the right.

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[fraley]

I think there's a sense of open space and time floating. It has a feeling of something about to happen, or something has just happened. There is an emotional content to it that some will respond to.

 

[back alley]

it looks like an old time snapshot, has that feel to it.
i'm thinking a bit closer and it would have more impact but generally i like it, i like this sort of shot where there is more than one thing going on in it.

 

[Sparrow]

Thanks all
In the 12x18 print there’s a lot more bits of details going on but normally without something happening on in the central 1/3 I wouldn’t bother printing a neg like this, in this case I still find it attractive, I can usually tell why I like a print, this one got me stumped!

 

[Sparrow]

Stewart, why do you feel the composition is all wrong?

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The “action” is small and in the left hand third, non of the main sight-lines lead to the subject, except the telegraph pole, no movement, no narrative, and a lot of the details “look” out of the frame, apart form that it’s fine 🙂