Response to The Decisive Moment (Response #141)

Uploaded 793 Days Ago by agi - 8 comments

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Lange said 793 days ago:

I really like this image. The older gentleman smoking on the bench is especially vivid. It appears he is perplexed by his current environment.

Mark_Hamilton said 793 days ago:

Very good photograph- I love the relationship between the subjects of the picture. It's as though they are connected, but not necessarily on the same side of the fence.

TheDailySunrise said 793 days ago:

Wish you cropped off woman on right : would be perfect.Great shot.

zorilla said 793 days ago:

This is such a great image it almost compensates for the overexposure.

Is there any chance it could be recropped to include all of the woman on the left?

agi said 792 days ago:

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I didn't want to crop off the woman in the right because, to me, she added motion and another element to the photograph. She's definitely participating in the moment because she's another protester carrying a sign. In addition, it's as if the lines (the poll and the line from the building) separates the two seated individuals, thereby, isolating them from the entire event. They are surrounded by protesters but they are in their own little world just observing.

I wish I had more of the person on the left but I didn't. I also wish I exposed it better. This was shot using my old trusty Mamiya ZE-2 35mm camera, I believe using TMax 400.

Ana said 792 days ago:

love it

matto said 792 days ago:

i love this. the woman looking at the camera makes it. this is great. so funny, so incongruous.

shashin said 791 days ago:

Would work better if the subject was all the way in the frame. I like the centered placement of the people on the bench, and their expressions.

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