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The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: RSL on May 12, 2019, 11:02:58 am

Title: Pause
Post by: RSL on May 12, 2019, 11:02:58 am
Ran across this one in my catalog from fifteen years ago.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: degrub on May 12, 2019, 11:53:34 am
anguish.
Was this film or digital ?
An APO lens ?
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 12, 2019, 11:58:54 am
Very expressive.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: RSL on May 12, 2019, 12:05:32 pm
"Anguish" might well have been a better title. I shot this one with a Nikon D100, degrub. I had a 24-200mm lens on the camera, and it's a B&W conversion. This is a case where graphics are everything.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 12, 2019, 01:19:37 pm
I prefer the title "Pause."
To my mind, "Anguish" gives too much away, doesn't let the viewer find it on his/her own.

Fine catch.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: Arlen on May 12, 2019, 02:11:20 pm
A lot of "street" photography doesn't resonate with me, but Pause and Question do. Well done.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: Cornfield on May 12, 2019, 04:24:40 pm
Powerful image, for me it looks like exhaustion.
Title: Re: Pause
Post by: RSL on May 13, 2019, 09:21:07 am
A lot of "street" photography doesn't resonate with me, but Pause and Question do. Well done.

Thanks, Arlen. Maybe the reason a lot of street doesn't resonate is that a lot of what's posted as street isn't street. Unless the picture has emotional content it's not really street as it originally was defined by example by people like HCB. Part of the problem is that "street photography" is a tragically misleading name for the genre, and part of the problem is that the people posting what they think is street never have taken the trouble to study the great street photographers and learn what actually defines the genre.