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 Steve, Of course none of it is meant to be nasty and I agree that there is nothing new in life --- that's what drives me so mad about extended copyright. I couldn't read the taxi script on the computer I was on, and so the quirk was missed and I have to agree that its a nice touch. Keep the images coming -- one guy wrote to me today and just said "this is the worse photo I've ever seen, and I can't imagine why you posted it". Fair enough I thought --- with no redeeming features, I suppose constructive comments are a waste of time ;-) Cheers to all paw photographers -- it is going to be a hard road. > > - -- Alastair Firkin http://www.afirkin.com