Saturday, September 15, 2007
Suspended
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This looks like the South Bank - is it? This guy either looks like he knows what he is doing or he is in deep trouble! I'm not sure about the composition on this: the line of boys at the back are rather too close to the jumper. In addition, you have focused further back so that those same boys are sharp whereas the foreground is soft: a reversal would have been more effective.
Yes it is the South Bank and it is a dark area under there!
I hadn't noticed the DOF until you mentioned it. I was not expecting the skate boarder to be sharp due to motion and sort of turned off my perception of the items in his plane. I guess it was at f2.8/3.5 and I'd focused on the back wall waiting for him to come in via my left eye.
I love the colors, patterns, light and figures at the back. The skateboarder, while somewhat interesting due to the action, is getting in the way of my enjoyment of those things -- I think I'd like him to be on his way back down toward the floor.
If I recognise this correctly, that bench is the one on which the children were sitting in the photo that I sent Christina. It is an old photo, but I'll post it later because it is such a different treatment. Rex is right. It is very dark in there.
Of course, now it is obvious, but I didn't think about it, perhaps because of the lack of color in Colin's version -- now I have larger view of the place!
Apart from the background figures being too close to the main subject, there's something odd about the geometry of this shot. I've tried cropping out the bottom, but that doesn't seem to help. I'm at a loss to explain what feels wrong with it.
Interesting image with the colors of the graffiti but the plain white shirt and jeans of the boarder. The blurr of the boarder give a strong impression of movement and the angles within the image a sense of suspense.
That eye on the right pillar is very strong. I'm in favour of a heavy crop along the bottom here. As it stands, the boarder looks a little 'safe' in that jump. The slopes and angles all force me to the boarder and again, a crop along the bottom, may further strengthen the tightness of the shot/environment. There is a lot of colour which all blend in well with each other. Those characters in the background just blend in too which makes the boarder's feat only appreciated by us rather than his perhaps intended audience?
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I hadn't noticed the DOF until you mentioned it. I was not expecting the skate boarder to be sharp due to motion and sort of turned off my perception of the items in his plane. I guess it was at f2.8/3.5 and I'd focused on the back wall waiting for him to come in via my left eye.