On 5/13/05, Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, I really like this one. > I was thinking it might be better at "rush hour" with about > 100 people going every which way. > The more I look at it though I'm not too sure it isn't about > perfect this way. > I can imagine myself as the guy rushing across the foreground, > wondering just that...Why? > Must be all this talk about mid-life crisis lately. ;-/ > > Nice shot. > Don
Thanks for your thoughts, Don. Initially, I was hoping to get ~anyone~ passing by as the sign flashed "why". I'd missed the first few "cycles", and this time, when I saw the two passersby, I waited until it felt right and snapped. Just as I snapped, the "why" had dissapeared, and I feared I'd missed it, but couldn't stick around as I was working and had a call to do, so had to leave. It wasn't until I got the negs back the other day that I realized I'd caught everything about where I wanted it. I don't know why, but I think it works best with just the two. I like the sense of isolation from each other and from the sign. In fact, I think there's more of that isolated feeling with two than with one. I think that throngs of commuters or rush hour crowds passing by might be an interesting shot, but wouldn' t have the same feel for me. Thanks again for you comments. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
