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Yes, well, there are seven million of us.Hmmm. I think I know why people dont leave Hong Kong often.
So many photographic oppurtunities!
No doubt.Lovely picture btw, the guy on the mobile looks like he has been distracted by something.
Nice use of capital letters... thank you.Don,
Thanks for all of your Fantastic Pictures.
I'm really enjoying your style and the IQ of your pictures.
Could you post the Camera that you are using with the pictures?
You are the most important part of you pictures and I love what you are able to do with a Small Sensor camera.
Regards, Jerry
I feel better now... at least I'm not invading their restrooms.Who said stalker?
...or abruptly stops to make a photograph........On another subject, I find one of the big nuisances in Hong Kong are people who can't walk and talk (or walk and text) at the same time. It's one of the safest cities in the world if you discount colliding with someone who abruptly stops in front of you to reply to an SMS. But that's probably true everywhere these days.
Don
There was no bathroom invasion, if they wouldn't make us always wait .I feel better now... at least I'm not invading their restrooms.
Lovely photo.
Don
If I'm not travelling, I'm in Hong Kong. As for an ad, sure, why not... pretty girl in her own world. I would art direct it a little more carefully for the final version, but yes.wow.are you in HK now?The girl seems to be seperate from the world,just in her fantastic music world.Uh...in my opinion,this picture could be an ad for the ipod.Do you think so?
I think I understand where you are coming from. But if the thread title was "candids", with the same content, you might not have written your post?All 3 shot's are about capturing a moment, aren't they. And this is what often times produces the most telling photographs.Not sure that I feel all that comfortable reading this thread.
On one hand, I don't like the first photo. Firstly, on a photographic level, it doesn't speak to me. But more than this, although it's hard to pinpoint exactly why, it makes me uncomfortable. Not that I can't imagine taking this kind of candid myself - I certainly have. But it's the kind of photo I erase, and try not to take again.
Secondly, the constant referring to the female sex as "them" is annoying.
The B&W mirror photo is excellent, must be said.
I think there is enough in the thread, but the title does add to it.I think I understand where you are coming from. But if the thread title was "candids", with the same content, you might not have written your post?All 3 shot's are about capturing a moment, aren't they. And this is what often times produces the most telling photographs.
There are solutions to that.Not sure that I feel all that comfortable reading this thread.
I never erase beauty that I find tasteful. All a personal judgment call, of course.But it's the kind of photo I erase, and try not to take again.
As human beings, we often objectify people, especially when we meet them in two-dimensional photographs. Here's a funny example I read just this morning.Secondly, the constant referring to the female sex as "them" is annoying.
Beauty or vulgarity are in the eye of the beholder, and there’s reallyThere is definitely a fine line here.
I'm now convinced that particular photo should go down, even if you were perhaps deliberately very harsh (given that I've criticized your 1st photo harshly). I find it difficult sometimes to be honest with myself as to the reasons why I took a photo. I was aware that there was a "cheap" exploitative impulse there, but also I was just trying to document how horrendous london can look at 2am on a sat night, and was anyway like any human being in a medley of feelings.There are solutions to that.
I would like to comment kindly, and from my own perspective, on your
two examples of street photography. For me, they are the kind of
photos that want to be meaningful but aren’t, except to the
photographer.
The first is murky and blurry and, as a single, unexplained image,
tells me no story at all. And the second one is the worst kind for me
– in stopping, deciding to take the photo, and then making the effort
to get down to get just that angle, you made a conscious decision to
take advantage of someone’s self-induced misery. And in the end, your only
justification for online display is “composition.”
If it were taken to show to an alcoholic friend in a future
intervention, or as part of article on youth alcohol abuse, I could
understand. Personally, I think there is a place for photos of people who have
been victims of other circumstances, e.g. fire, flood, famine,
earthquake, crime, calamity. But this seems to be to be simply self-
indulgence – “because it was there” or “because it was funny” or
“because I thought someone else would be amused by it” – and had no
other purpose. If was empathy or pity, it doesn’t show through.
Glad to hear that... that's most important here, or on any public forum. Gentlemen disagree and move on.>>Perhaps we can think of this as a “comparison of techniques. ”
Definitely.