On 5/14/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 14, 2007, at 7:40 AM, frank theriault wrote: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5965027 > > I like this. It's a very common scene, someone peering at something > in a shop display and wondering about it. What's going through her > mind we cannot tell from the photo ... she could be saying "ugh, what > junk they sell for too high a price" or "hmm, maybe with those orange > pumps this would look good" or whatever. But the posture, the look, > is something very familiar and has many implicit ironies and contrasts. > > The tilt is a little overmuch for me. I really want to rotate it > about 5 degrees clockwise. But the most distracting element in the > photo is the car's reflection in the window between the woman and the > dress ... I'd work on supressing that. >
Thanks, Godfrey - and thanks to everyone else for commenting. I rather like this one, too. I think it'll look better in B&W, but I'm happy enough with it as is. Like you, I like the "everyday-ness" of it. I think it's fun to guess what she might be thinking - does she love the stuff, does she hate it, is she imagining what she'd look like with it on? I must comment on the tilt issue, however, as it's been mentioned by a couple of you. I don't find that it's tilted! Is it me? Do I have a tilted brain? A tilted face? In all seriousness, I know that some vertical lines are tilted, but in the viewfinder I was looking at the subject and the mannequins: they look upright and vertical to me. Maybe it is my brain... ;-) Thanks again for commenting! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
