Gabriel M.A. said:
I like the feeling in this photo. There certainly some "technical" issues with this. Being petty and ordinary, I wonder if there would be some that would ask why you cut off the woman's foot off the frame. But looking at "the big picture", I see it gives it a further sense of motion, the action is in the frame, and moving out of it.
It looks like a "hip" shot, yet there's a sense of conscious composition decision due to the zoning by the sidewalk, street, and bridge.
Gabriel, this was a hip shot, and I think this photo was just blind luck: the foot, the motion, composition, everything. Maybe I was concious of what I wanted, and in the end that made a difference, but really, I'm not sure I was paying that much attention.
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Some more info: This picture was taken in September 2005, at an RFF meet in London. The woman in the photo is my wife, and the two guys on the left are Tom and Vincent, both members here. It was totally a grab shot; I was trying to get pictures of the members on our day out, without any of them complaining - you know how photographers get when you try to take their picture!
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My biggest complaint with the photo is the blur in Jo's face; she's just not sharp enough. I was zone focussed for too great of a distance, and the exposure was pretty awful, too. I toyed with converting the shot to black and white, but it just looked worse.
In the end, I feel it's just "OK". There is probably an emotional factor affecting my judgement: I have memories of the day, but the photo doesn't live up to those memories, and therefore, the photo is no good.
I'm quite happy with your responses. You all seem to see more in it than I do, and it makes me feel good to know that maybe it's an interesting photograph. I may now be motivated enough to spend more time on it, to try and get more from the scan. Thanks to everyone.
