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Response to Absence (Response #7)

Uploaded 260 Days Ago by agi - 15 comments

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JIMJIM said 260 days ago:

hehe, very cool - (what's missing !? :)
Excellent street shot,- very extra-ordinary :)

Ana said 260 days ago:

I love that he has a camera!

flipthom said 260 days ago:

Wow. Definitely something missing. There's no cars! ; )

zorilla said 260 days ago:

The flat, snapshot look and feel of this really let me down. This is so close to a once-in-a-lifetime classic picture, but it's not.

ArneG said 260 days ago:

Nice bag.

agi said 260 days ago:

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Zorilla thanks for the criticism as I feel it's the only way to learn. It would be great if you can expand a little more on your comment so that I can either fix the problem (if it's a processing issue) or if I just missed the "decisive moment" completely.

As for some self criticism, I feel the composition isn't the greatest. In hindsight I should have waited for the gentleman in the back to leave but what if I did and lost the shot and his bag wouldn't cover his...umm thing? Ha! Anyway this isn't an uncommon situation here in SF...there's scary ugly naked people all the time :)

pete said 260 days ago:

thats a scary find! lucky with the camera bag there!

mtmartini said 259 days ago:

folsom street faire? Funny shot, too bad the quality is only just OK.

Montage said 259 days ago:

I think I've seen this guy before. Great one for the theme!

kadenajack said 256 days ago:

I was just thinking something like this would fit nicely in the theme and lo and behold there it is already posted. I have to admit I was hoping for an attractive woman as the subject, but this is no less relevant and quite a bit more humorous.

kadenajack said 256 days ago:

If I were to expand upon agi's request for more from zorilla, I'd suggest cropping down more. Cutting off the whole right side of the image makes it much stronger in my humble opinion.

Yeah, maybe it's a little snapshot-ish, but when you see something like this you just have to draw your weapon and shoot. Maybe firing off several shots with minor adjustments to composition would have garnered a stronger image. I think had you placed him in the right of the frame it might have worked better since he's facing to the viewer's left. Another shot with just that minor pan over may have done the trick.

Beamer said 256 days ago:

What does Paris say?: "That's hot!!" Well, maybe not... Good catch.

agi said 255 days ago:

Thanks everyone.

To answer some questions this is from the Love Parade here in San Francisco.

With the help of Tracy (mtmartini) who gave me pointers on how to make this photograph better. I rescanned (I'm a film user), reprocessed and did crop the photograph a few days ago. I hope it's better now and posted it on my photoblog.

http://www.alapan.com/blog/?p=873

Thoughts? I'm self taught in PS so I guess I still have a lot to learn. Tracy thank you so much!

kadenajack said 255 days ago:

Looks much better agi. I still don't think you need anything to the right of the newspaper boxes, but reprocessing certainly helped.

pete said 245 days ago:

that is a much better image :) you still have the same focal point, but the photo is now 'art', not just a snapshot :) isnt it great what you can do with computers, its hard to take a bad photo!

and its nice to see people on here helped you out, its what its for at the end of the day :)

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