I think I can see what you're after, but there are a couple of problems with it, from my point of view. In black & white photos the viewer's eye is naturally drawn first to the lightest objects, in this case the shopping bag and the road signs, and that unfortunately detracts from the main subject, so it took me a moment to fix on the man and his umbrella. I would have preferred it with him further back in the frame, without the railway bridge and the signs, and a little closer. I think that would still have conveyed effectively the dilapidation of the environment and the sense of a dull walk in the rain.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jim kerslake > Sent: 19 July 2006 07:34 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: the long walk home > > Hopefully this is not a discouraging PESO - > I think it has some obvious flaws, but would like others' opinions. > > This is from my first ever roll of b&w film (Ilford FP4) > through an original > Spotmatic with the standard 55mm Takumar - > So plenty of grain then :-) > > I'm not the best at scanning negs either. > > > http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home_smaller.jpg > > larger version of same: > http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home.jpg > > > >From a previous thread: > > " Why do we shoot people we don't know? Maybe to > make some universal statement about the human condition, > yuppie or tourists > or > kids or otherwise." - Marnie aka Doe > > > I think I just sympathised with this guy - > I seem to spend half my life trudging to and from work like this. > > I wanted to capture a sense of the world bearing down upon > him, as well as > the rain. > > I was in two minds about cropping off the whole top third of > the image - but > in the end opted to leave it. > > -- jim > > "ee it's grim oop north" ;-) > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
