Hello Paul, Generally like the shot. Works very well in B&W. The flash is iffy for me. The biggest downside is the crowd walking towards him is very dim in comparison. I feel that the partial body cropped out would be better. The one girl and the follow on crowd are plenty to give it that street feel.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, May 30, 2005, 2:01:10 PM, you wrote: PS> I wasn't going to post this until next week since I already posted two PS> shots this weekend. But I see there's a shortage of conversation here PS> anyway (longest sentence? :-), so I figured what the hay. Anyway, the PS> guy in the pic is named Paul Miles. He's a Michigan Blues singer who PS> works the Birmingham streets on busy days. He's also recorded a couple PS> of CDs (my pic on the cover of one). He's appeared in a number of blues PS> festivals and various other venues around the country. He's quite good PS> and a very nice guy. I shot this with the FA 35/2, converted to BW in PS> PS using the channel mixer. It was quite dark when I shot it, so I PS> tried the on-camera flash at ISO 800. I have some other pics from PS> slightly earlier without the flash, but I sometimes like the retro look PS> of BW flash pics. I tried several different crops and settled on PS> retaining the cut-off figure on the right. I think it helps the idea of PS> a passing crowd. I wonder how others feel about this partial body. By PS> the way, this prints rather nicely on the Epson 2200 with the standard PS> ink set. I'm printing more BW inkjet these days and liking the results. PS> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3410319&size=md PS> Paul
