On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:40:12 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This exemplifies one of the reasons I am not personally happy photographing on the street. To me, she looks like she has been assaulted and is, as you say, trying to hold on to her dignity. She certainly doesn't (within the constraints of a monitor image) look calm, confident and composed. To me there is a hint of "I don't want you to do that but I don't want any more aggravation today".
Mike (and the others who thought that she looked like she's been assaulted or that she's a street person - whatever that means),
Frank, I knew you wouldn't do anything so tasteless and I hope that most people's first impulse would be to go to the assistance of someone in distress, rather than take their picture. The problem I am trying to elucidate is the difficulty one has when one's images are protrayed to a large audience in such a technically degraded fashion. It is all too easy for someone to jump to the wrong conclusion - because there _are_ people out there who photograph people in unhappy situations, against their will - and then do something about it.
If you were showing the print/slide to your mates, the problem would not exist.
So: given that the picture has the potential to give an unintentional, initial, wrong impression, is it a good one????
mike
