Friday, August 11, 2006
Bangkok
Comments:
For me this feels a little bit like about 0100 after a night on the town - nothing is quite clear and there is a grave danger of being run over! I think that something needs to be sharp amongst all the hyperactivity.
Everything is flowing to the left yet the guy on the bike is too far frame left looking right to balance it all out. I would hazard a stronger image would be found with the bike positioned in the emptiness middle right. I don't need sharpness as there is plenty of definition for me to work out what's going on. Need some distance between the front of the bike and the car infront. Again, with the bike further right in frame this would be solved.
"I see the light as being integral to conveying the arbitrary nature of urban space. That you try and impose some order with a railing is understandable."
Funny, I would have gone the other direction, but then I would have run into that tree.
To me this captures well the momentum of the city. Something which you need to stand back from to see (if you were there you would be concentrating too much on the details of not getting run over, or how to break into the stream of traffic, or whatever).
What it doesn't do is create something I want to look at for very long. It isn't the (lack of) sharpness. It is something to do with the lack of separation between bike and car.
I can see this in a magazine photo essay about bike based vending in Bangkok, but by itself it doesn't involve me.
Why has that bloke got a white upright piano on his moped?
I admire your adventurousness, as this is certainly an image I would probably have never taken and if I had would not have shown. So I find this quite thought provoking as the image tells me quite a lot about the nightlife and therefore I am missing opportunities to communicate.
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Funny, I would have gone the other direction, but then I would have run into that tree.
What it doesn't do is create something I want to look at for very long. It isn't the (lack of) sharpness. It is something to do with the lack of separation between bike and car.
I can see this in a magazine photo essay about bike based vending in Bangkok, but by itself it doesn't involve me.
I admire your adventurousness, as this is certainly an image I would probably have never taken and if I had would not have shown. So I find this quite thought provoking as the image tells me quite a lot about the nightlife and therefore I am missing opportunities to communicate.