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In Observation.
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I observed this couple in a restaurant in Dublin this evening.
Watching her sign & gesture was facinating, she had a lot to say!
hi john, this one feels a tiny bit under exposed to me…
while the blurring accentuates the speed her hands are moving at it also means that the main subject of the image (her hands) are a bit harder to make out… i would imagine that this was in part down to unavoidable compensations for the exposure though…out of curiosity did you ask them if was ok to take their picture? as someone who doesn’t really like having their picture taken, and neither do many of my friends and family it raises some ethical issues for me…
No Isabella, of course I didn’t ask!
What ‘ethical issues’ do you have with photographing people candidly?
They’re not intimately sharing a moment or in a state of undress!
They are just two people in conversation with each other!
Do you think that ‘Life’ photographers asked permissions for all the shots they’ve taken &
I’m not comparing myself to a ‘Life’ photographer but what’s the difference?
If your going to let all that bulls**t get in to your head you may as well put the camera back into the box & take up knitting!it was just a question, no need to get over the top about it. people are photographed in the street all the time but i think if i was in a restaurant i wouldn’t necessarily be to happy about it thats all. i know one or two people who would have extremely bad reactions to that. as i wouldn’t like it myself i don’t do it to others.
i really didn’t mean to offend you, it was as i said just a question.
Your reply was a bit OTT there john… As for the picture it dosnt really do anything for me. Maybe you had to be there or maybe if you had of recorded a video of them it would have been better…
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The picture really doesn’t excite me at all. It’s pretty un-interesting.
Not sure what else there is to say about it. Sorry :(
To be frank, & I’m not Frank, I didn’t take this picture to please people!
I took this image because the situation facinated me!
I thought this woman in her expression throughout the conversation was beautiful & elequent!
Although she didn’t utter a word throughout her time & my time in the restaurant I thought from a laymans
term she quitely conveyed a lot of emotion & feeling in her ‘words’
Unfortunately this wasn’t quite captured in any of my images but it will remain with me forever when I look at this image!
And maybe ‘it was’ a situation where you had to be there to appreciate it but to my eye it was a beautiful time & place
to sit & just watch as an accidental tourist, so who ever this lady is or couple are, take a bow!
What a great experience it was for me to watch & ‘listen’ in to your world! Thank you.
Hi John.
While I’m not really into “people” photography, I am familiar with seeing scenes with people present which I think would make a nice shot, but I tend to avoid them, mainly because of people’s expectations of privacy, and more so if kids are included. In the street, I don’t think people should expect much privacy, but in a restaurant, I would, personally, expect some, especially if I was in the company of a member of the opposite sex.
In this case, I would have either, asked the people if they minded me taking their photographs & posting them on the internet, or I would have put the camera away & just observed.
As for the shot itself, I would prefer if the man’s face was more visible. Body language & gesturing can be very difficult to capture successfully in a photograph, but I think you’ve managed to capture a nice moment in this shot. At first, I hadn’t noticed the hearing aids, which, for me, make the image more powerful.To be frank, & I’m not Frank, I didn’t take this picture to please people!
I took this image because the situation facinated me!
I thought this woman in her expression throughout the conversation was beautiful & elequent!
Although she didn’t utter a word throughout her time & my time in the restaurant I thought from a laymans
term she quitely conveyed a lot of emotion & feeling in her ‘words’
Unfortunately this wasn’t quite captured in any of my images but it will remain with me forever when I look at this image!
And maybe ‘it was’ a situation where you had to be there to appreciate it but to my eye it was a beautiful time & place
to sit & just watch as an accidental tourist, so who ever this lady is or couple are, take a bow!
What a great experience it was for me to watch & ‘listen’ in to your world! Thank you.
I’m not quite sure what your expectation is by posting this photo in a critique forum. Are you hoping that someone might excite themselves in your fascination, that several posts later you decide to share?
Sadly for me, your narrative almost admits that it’s a lack-lustre scene that requires some sort of forceful explanation of it’s purpose.
I expected nothing Tommy but maybe you should read it again!
‘I took this image because the situation facinated me’ & I posted it.
Whether you like it or not, that’s your privilage & you’re welcome to it.
I expected nothing Tommy but maybe you should read it again!
‘I took this image because the situation facinated me’ & I posted it.
Whether you like it or not, that’s your privilage & you’re welcome to it.
I’ve read it several times, and unfortunatley my view still hasn’t change.
This situation may have fascinated you, but the image says almost nothing about the scene.
What’s the exclamation point for? Are you angry or something? Sorry if I have upset you in anyway, I was just being frank :)
John17 wrote:
I didn’t take this picture to please people!
I have plenty of pictures like that, ones I took that are for me only really. These images that are for me and not to please anyone are mostly kept away from public critique sections of websites/forums. You critique other peoples images on this site so why wouldn’t people critique yours.
Also I don’t mind my picture being taken at all, but if I was sitting in a restaurant with my wife or ??? and some one was sitting there taking my picture with out asking I’d be just a little pisssed off.. Sometimes it’s nice to just ask.
regardless of all the controversy i think the image and what you want it to say would be improved if you pulled up the highlights on her hands and face and darkened the surrounding areas to make her stand out more from the background. the greys and lines just merge too much and detract from it
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