Critique #26 *Open Theme*—5 Participants

[sf]

is this full yet if not I'll come in too.

here's one I was going to put in the gallery, I'll put it here first.

Taken with a Canonet GIII QL17 ; Fuji 200 ISO generic rebranded film; lab processed and scanned to a CD. Uncropped and 'resized for the web' in PS Elements no sharpening or adjustment of curves.
Titled "Yin - yan: Vespa and bicycle"

It would have been good to get the handlebar entirely in the shot for the red Vespa, but that would have required losing the form of the yin-yan. Might have been also a good shot from a ladder looking down. I definitely wish to see more of the bicycle in the shot (we can't see anything but a very condensed frontal view that leaves all its old-fashioned nature to guessing).

The red/black/green contrast is good., and the DOF is well chosen.

 

[sf]

George: I like the picture on the wall. It complements the photo of the lady sitting on the chair and reading a magazine. The photo looks rather dark on my monitor. The light switches behind her head don't look good.

Raid

light switches. . .I know it. I was unable to get them out of the shot because of the limited angle I had on her.

I need to brighten all my pics - I was a very bright and crisp LCD monitor, and it seems that most all of my work looks dim to everyone around.

 

[jan normandale]

Here are my thoughts on my own shot.

This shot was taken as I walked to my work around 8.30am. The black bicycle with helmet was locked to one of the bike racks and was a ‘fresh face at the parking stand’ . The red vespa is a regular. I looked and saw a red motorized vespa and a black pedal bike with a ‘bell’ the black bike was adorned with the white daisies and I knew this was a decent shot. I took three shots. One full frame with every component visible, another partial crop and this one. The choice of this shot was based on my decision that the flowers were what this shot was about.

A visual oasis composed of flowers in the CDB of Toronto financial capital of Canada and immediately across the street from the Toronto Stock Exchange Tower. It was a resonating image and it represented everything different in the world from money and the pursuit of money. I could have waited for the two women in the top left frame corner to pass however I believed they added a human touch in all the steel and concrete.

I haven’t seen the bike again, but the vespa.. its there every day.

 

[ampguy]

Thanks for the comments on the kid on the bike photo. Jan's technical info. makes sense, and I also appreciate the other ideas including having the subject in the first 1/3rd of the frame. Thanks all.

 

[jan normandale]

like Ampguy said.. thanks all. It was a good one ;- )

 

[raid]

I was new at taking candid shots inside a subway car. Sometimes, there would be hundreds of people squeezed together, so photography was out of the question. In this photo, I waited for another train to pass while we still standing.

Thanks for this enjoyful discussion session.

Raid