Sideways

[Jeremy Payne]

Canon G9 at ISO 800 ... LR3b2 has prompted me to re-visit some older noisy images ... older image, new processing ...

[francois]

I like your image very much. The look of the young womang and also of the man (on the left) along with the crowded space makes me feel like I'm travelling with them, bunched together.
Bravo!

[fredjeang]

Hi Jeremy,

Great pic that reminds me a lot the last Russ one here:
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....showtopic=42797

It is the same kind of interaction IMO.

I would only suggest a crop, because some space distracts me a bit from the real action.
The bags are exactly symetrics wich is a good point.
I give my idea in a draw.

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Cheers.

[Jeremy Payne]

Hi Jeremy,

Great pic that reminds me a lot the last Russ one here:
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....showtopic=42797

It is the same kind of interaction IMO.

I would only suggest a crop, because some space distracts me a bit from the real action.
The bags are exactly symetrics wich is a good point.
I give my idea in a draw.

[attachment=21400:cropped.jpg]

Cheers.

I'll play ... I think you may have a point ... :-)

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I'll play ... I think you may have a point ... :-)

But then you lose the word "Thinking" in the upper right corner, which I think adds to the excellent image. Both ways, cropped or not, are very good, but I think I prefer the original.

Eric

[RSL]

I'll play ... I think you may have a point ... :-)

Jeremy, I love the shot, and I agree that Fred has a point, but, as Eric points out the crop drops part of what I suspect you saw when you tripped the shutter. The crop also moves the girl's face awfully close to the right edge. As it is, her face is about a third of the way into the frame. I always hate to quote the "rule of thirds," but I have to admit that there's something to it. I tried the crop here, and I find that when I put the picture away for a bit, then come back and flash on it, my eye doesn't immediately go to the girl's face, which is where it should go. Fred's reference to my St. George street shot leaves out the fact that in that picture the tall basketball player is the center of attention and the place where your eye goes when you first look at it. The girl comes in later when you check out what he's looking at.

[fredjeang]

Yes, considering your points, I'd say that different solutions leads to different lands.
I admit that my crop idea is based on to something that has to do with abstract more than street.
I've been influenced by this natural tendency on me.
It's interesting to see your points. In terms of pure photography, involving a "story told", Russ and Eric are right and the image works perfectly as it is.

At the end, it is always a matter of choice. But interesting to see how different things works.

Now I've been watching the pic with distance, and I think it is just right.

Ps: it is not the first time I have a different feeling between the first impression when I see a picture, and the second reading after a while.
I think from now, I'll give my point of view in this section after the second viewing.

Cheers,

Fred.

[Jeremy Payne]

But then you lose the word "Thinking" in the upper right corner, which I think adds to the excellent image. Both ways, cropped or not, are very good, but I think I prefer the original.

Eric

I saw the same thing the second I started to play with it.

"Thinking" must stay in frame.

I also didn't realize it was already cropped a little bit ... I'll post the full frame later ...

[walter.sk]

Nice shot.  I often use my long-in-the-tooth 1DII at ISO 1600 or 3200 in the subways, and have been pretty happy with noise reduction using DFine 2.   I never even considered using my G9 because of the low light and resultant noise from the G9, but your image looks clean and sharp.  I guess I'll have to check out the LR beta.  I have LR 2.6 but use it only for transferring my files from CF card to computer.  I generally use Bridge in CS4 for most of my browsing, rating, etc, and haven't found LR so helpful for my workflow.  I hope that CS5 and the new ACR will incorporate the same noise reduction capabilities as LR3.  If not, I guess I may have to upgrade to LR3, as well.

I am including an old shot I took years ago, but I have revisited it by putting in Woody Branch, an artists' model who I am using in a small project just for fun.
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