The sign is right at the edge of the frame so I can't put any "air" around it. I'll try the crop as you suggest and see how it looks.
Although b&w is my usual "default" I didn't even try it this time. I would have lost the impact of the sleeping bags in monochrome imho. Don't know about the fantasy/reality switch over the years but what you say makes sense. I just look at each shot individually and think how what I am trying to say (or portray) can best be expressed (with an admitted bias toward black and white). ;-) Thanks for the comment. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> Sent: December 3, 2012 12/3/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO - Winter's Coming [email protected] wrote: >It's getting colder so the competition is on for the prime sidewalk warming >grates. The sleeping bags are new; this is the time of year the charities >distribute them. By spring they'll very filthy. > >But now they're still brightly coloured and shiny: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winters-coming.html?m=0 > >I don't know how these guys survive winter. I guess some of them don't. Great shot, Frank. Somehow, the "Do not block intersection" sign really contributes to the image (though part of me wishes it weren't so close to the top of the frame; I'm guessing you shot this as a horizontal and cropped to square - maybe cropping a bit more off the bottom and left might help?) You're quite right to do it in color, IMHO. Remember how "The Wizard of Oz" depicted Kansas in B&W nut showed Oz in color, intending to contrast bleak reality with pretty fantasy? Now we regard color as more realistic (rightly so, I think) and B&W as more abstract. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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. -- 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.
