On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone: In early Oct, my husband & I took a drive down Rush St.; I > hadn't been there for years. I tended bar on Rush st. for several years at > a place called The Hangge Uppe, and it's still there, though much has > changed on the street. Anyway, I took this pic--a real drive-by, though I > was stopped at a stop sign. The original pic is a mess--at 2500 ISO it's > grainier than an Iowa silo, and it has enough of those pink & blue artifacts > to give a digital archeologist an orgasm. I think those 3 lights in the > background biased the metering causing the original pic to > underexpose--hence the grain/artifact issue when trying to brighten it up. > > Since Oct, I've been rendering the heck out of it, and tonight I think I've > finally settled on this rendering. Interestingly though, just now I printed > this pic on some Illford Gold Fiber Silk, 8 1/2 x 11, and it looks A LOT > less grainer than this digital version. > > > http://tinyurl.com/ygzuu7m > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/rushstcouple/content/20091010__IGP5336_large.html
I think this is a stunning photograph! At first blush it's a simple snapshot of a young couple out for a night of fun, but the more time I spend with it, the more it becomes. Beyond the wonderful composition (love the traffic in the background), there's something about the body language and facial expressions of this young couple that's absolutely captivating. It's as if, while they obviously know each other and are (on some level) comfortable with each other, neither of them ~really~ wants to be there right now. There's a fascinating disconnect between them, as if they're out on their "date" because they ~have~ to, not because they ~want~to be together. There's a strange discomfort that I sense between them - it may have been a fleeting thing that was only there for the moment that you snapped the photo, and maybe all this stuff that I'm "getting" is only an illusion, but I've got to tell you, your photo makes me ~think~. This is one hell of a photo! 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 to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
