PeeWee05 opened this issue on Jul 12, 2007 · 10 posts
Onslow posted Thu, 12 July 2007 at 3:32 PM
There is not much to critique.
It is a well captured image technically, but not very interesting. Why capture it when the crowds are there, except that you happened to be at the spot. You are master of your camera and this kind of image presents no particular difficulty . Unless there is something interesting and different that you are trying to show us that I am missing .
Explore different angles if you will - they will be of interest to those who are not familiar with this scene, or cannot see it except in a photograph. However they will only be postcards to friends or acquaintances type images.
I see three possibilities to carry this forward which I will put here - perhaps others will have different opinions or be able to add more. Something to show that you can make your own and exercise your own style in capture.
One is that you explore this scene in time - you search for the special moments that happen in or around this place. The unfamiliar, the funny,, the happy, the sad, the romantic and try to capture those.
Two you explore this scene in how it reacts to its environment in different light and conditions: at night, in fog, at dawn, at dusk, in the rain, in the snow, in ice, a panorama, and capture those.
Three you concentrate on the little details : close ups, the dropped bus ticket, the can of drink, the way it is made, details that a person standing next to it will see and not the scene as you approach from across the road.
hth
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We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
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