Sunday, October 07, 2007
Camera phones
Back on the South Bank :-)
Permalink / posted by and copyright of Colin [auspiciousdragon.net] : 2:18 PM
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I'm just wanting a little more gap between us four viewers and the subject. If the subject would just move a little to their left it would help. However I am still trying to fathom what of interest has got the phones out of their pockets and likewise interesting that we too are looking on at this.
Looking South, just to the East of the Eye. As usual with London a strange space that defies integration.
A hoodie with dollars! Four layers here: cameras, performer, space and buildings. It comes together very well.
Guy's reaction mirrored my own. I'd like a bit more space in this, but I'm not sure how you could have worked than and managed to hold onto the phones.
I am curious, what is he doing? Some sort of martial arts? A performance piece? Modern dance. The shiny thing almost looks an overgrown video game controller: a dance expression of his excitement over the release of Halo 3?
John - the dollars hoodie struck me as a subject all in itself. If I were a painter I'd be painting dollars hoodies.
matt/akikana - lots of buskers along this stretch. This guy was dancing and, for the want of a better word, juggling. He had four transparent spheres (meant to look like glass, I guess) that caught the light wonderfully. His dance routine included lots of Harlem Globetrotter type moves with the spheres rolling down his arms and across his back and so on. For the time that I was there this guy had an audience bigger than all the others put together. Up to about 50 people per set.
I find this one a blit flat and it does not help me to get interested.
Past that first impression, I mostly notice the pattern of people using phones as cameras. I am more interested in that. The dancer is, in my opinion, too blurred to avoid being just a background.
Looking at the image after reading Stephane's comment I paid special attention to the performer and the OoF'ness. It was then that I noticed the person behind them on the right. Having done that I could not lose that person again.
So now I have a recession of three people and I feel that that is a strong composition and the figure on the right is superfluous.
Funny because I wouldn't have seen the image that way without Stephane's comment.
I find that the two outside heads does a nice job of framing this image, with the out of focus figure thats getting their picture taken to be intreging. Might dodge the building in the upper left quad.
Although it's true that the two outside heads could be seen as framing, I"d prefer to see the figure on the left cropped out -- I think that would direct attention to the camera in hand and the "action". That dark shirt in the corner is distracting.
The $ hoodie is quite amusing.
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A hoodie with dollars! Four layers here: cameras, performer, space and buildings. It comes together very well.
I am curious, what is he doing? Some sort of martial arts? A performance piece? Modern dance. The shiny thing almost looks an overgrown video game controller: a dance expression of his excitement over the release of Halo 3?
matt/akikana - lots of buskers along this stretch. This guy was dancing and, for the want of a better word, juggling. He had four transparent spheres (meant to look like glass, I guess) that caught the light wonderfully. His dance routine included lots of Harlem Globetrotter type moves with the spheres rolling down his arms and across his back and so on. For the time that I was there this guy had an audience bigger than all the others put together. Up to about 50 people per set.
Past that first impression, I mostly notice the pattern of people using phones as cameras. I am more interested in that. The dancer is, in my opinion, too blurred to avoid being just a background.
So now I have a recession of three people and I feel that that is a strong composition and the figure on the right is superfluous.
Funny because I wouldn't have seen the image that way without Stephane's comment.
The $ hoodie is quite amusing.