Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Steve LeHuray wrote: >> >> All comments and criticism are welcome. http://www.streetphoto.net/wk4.html http://www.streetphoto.net/wk4a.html >> > Alastair Firkin comments: > > Ok, lets get ugly ;-0 I'm ready > > I think this is a fine record of events that day, but there are dozens of > these guys all over the world, and they are "too easy" a target --- we (a > large group of LUGNUTS spent some time photographing them in London last > time I was there). So to make a great image is going to be difficult. Some > how the image needs to rise above just being there. That may be true in London and other parts of the world, in Washington, DC street musicians are a recent addition to a city that only a couple decades ago was a sleepy southern town. It is now emerging as a world class city with many diverse cultures. So for me this is still a novelty. > > You have captured the expressions on the players at a good time, but I (and > its my opinion ) don't like the "big black taxi" crusing between them. If you look closely you can see on the side of the taxi 'M.Cruze Taxi', kinda fits in with the musicians. > I need more from this situation. Some of the crowd and their reactions to the > music, or a comic background. This is only one picture. I was not trying to do a essay. > Tough subject in my opinion because it is too easy -- this has always been > my critisism of similar images I've taken in London Melbourne New Orleans > etc. Of course you can say the same thing about just about any picture taken in the last 100 years. Nothing new under the sun. > > cheers Thank you for the critique. > > Alastair >