Thursday Street Thread March 20, 2008

some great points made by both Gene, Bill, and nightfly about self editing. I like the idea of posting only your best, or what you feel is worthy of posting. The only problem is many here probably would not participate in a thread if they felt their image would be harshly critiqued, the fact is many take criticism as a personal attack.

I think a seperate thread, call it "Street Critique" or whatever, would be received better than just blasting folks with our opinions, solicited or not. A clear set of rules posted at the top would allow everyone participating to know to expect honesty and that feelings may be hurt. It might also work in conjunction with Stephanie B.s street contest coming up soon (to get some feedback from others before posting an image). Just a few thoughts, what do yall think?

Todd
 
Hello everybody,
it is nice to have a place where we can exchange opinions about our work
I just want to point that when we are discussing photography we are discussing some form of art and understanding of art is very subjective.

This is really depends of personal taste and values. I have only one criteria for photos, is it touching me or not, so for me is most important if I can see emotions in the given image or not, all that technical stuff like contrast, grain, depth of field are secondary. What I really like to see here in comments is critique, I really want to know why you do not think it is a grate photo and again all opinions are subjective and we should be ready that taste, values and preferences are not match ours

thanks
 
ilia.
good comments, I absolutly agree that personal tastes, values, etc. play a big part in what we like and how we comment. I think with street photography exposures can be off a bit, sometimes adding to the image, like graininess and high contrast. Focus can be off a bit too in many situations, I'm not a stickler for exactness in either of these areas.

I do like for the photographer to be pretty close to the subject, but have broken that rule myself many times.
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I like your point about art and it's objective nature, good thing to keep in mind when commenting on others posted pics.

Todd
 
Todd,

rules are good, but what is really counts is final result, yes we can brake any rules as far as final image is showing what we want to tell. The most difficult for me is define what I want ...
Again for me is the main criteria is emotional vibrant of the picture.
I do like your first image, for some reason it feels like the story here and architecture plays a major role here.
Second one does not touching me at all so I have nothing to comment here ...
 
2 Todd,
Second picture better for me then first:
- both of them have good ritms in composition
- first - central composition with no active disbalancing object
- second - main =story= object in the same time is a main point of visual attantion and lines of light/shadow point to it.
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Both images can be present on an exhibition as a part of sequnce in "geometrical" serie only,
with more stronger "leaders"
I not sure about publishing.
 
Todd,

I think both of those photo work individually especially among more close up type of photography. However I think they detract from one another by being presented together (I realize you were just making a point about breaking the rules).

I really like the geometry of them and the sense of man being isolated and overwhelmed by the scale of the surrounding architecture. They work well to me as street photos because they could not exist out of context. They are not portraits of people that happen to have been taken on the street (a pet peeve of mine in street photos) but the surroundings are essential to the photo.

I guess you could go the other way and present a larger group of these together as well to explore that in more depth.
 
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