Photoshoot

[agp]

Photoshoot by hunteryves, on Flickr

 

[ComputerWhiz]

Nice picture.
Personally, I feel like the background is a bit distracting and that some of the objects blend into the buildings. The heads of the people blend in with the building window. I also think that the dark building should be cropped out because it takes away from the unity of the buildings and also makes the image very left weighted.
I like how you have stuck to the "Rule of Thirds" and made sure that the subject is not centered.
Overall, a nice picture.

 

[Light Guru]

I like how you have stuck to the "Rule of Thirds" and made sure that the subject is not centered.

They didn't follow the rule of thirds. The group of people may not be centered from left to right but they are from top to bottom. Therefor they are not on one of the points of intersect if you were to draw a tick tack to grid on the image.

As for the photo of me is just does not work because there is a guy standing and blocking the view of what the person is talking a photograph of.

 

[acparsons]

The lines in the sidewalk work with the buildings to give it a cool 2 dimensional feel, the deep foreground contributes to this. The stuff in the background makes this photo more interesting. If you look closely, you can see they're chess pieces.

 

[KmH]

The title implies the group of people is the main subject in the image.
However, the group is small which significantly reduces the group's visual weight in the frame.
The group is also not separated by light nor depth-of-field in the frame, another way the group's visual weight is minimized.
The only way the group's visual weight is accented is perspective, in that the group is closest to the camera

IMO the image is somewhat under exposed, could use more contrast and there are competing for attention image elements.

To make the group a stronger image element more in line with the image title I would crop the image.
I also added some mid-tone contrast and a 1/4 stop of exposure. The added mid-tone contrast also adds a slight sharpening effect.
The photographer is on the lower left RoT power point.

 

[Derrel]

I tried an alternate crop, eliminating all those dozens and dozens of windows:



I deliberately left the two chess pieces, so it could be titled, "Photoshoot: Merely Pawns In The Game".

To me, the windows are a HUGE distraction; the whole point of this shot is the large, open public plaza on which this little scene is being played out in. By eliminating the windows, we focus on the activity happening on the "playing surface" or the "game board". The off-centered two black pawn pieces are placed as they are, and serve as a counterbalance to the female photographer, who has a direct line leading RIGHT TO HER, in the form of the concrete work, which is a much,much stronger line than any imaginary power point or rule of thirds line--it is a real,direct,in-cement line. The whole scene is odd, so I framed it oddly by cropping as above.

 

[bribrius]

meh. who cares if someone is taking a photo?
The full frame and building and chess pieces and the large expanse of square made it better, least for me. In fact I think it needs more chess pieces. One in the foreground for more emphasis especially if you start cropping the chess board..
actually just take the photo people right out of it they don't really add imo. Take it again just with people standing on the squares with a chess piece in the foreground and spread through the frame.

jmo

 

[Derrel]

meh. who cares if someone is taking a photo?
The full frame and building and chess pieces and the large expanse of square made it better, least for me. In fact I think it needs more chess pieces. One in the foreground for more emphasis especially if you start cropping the chess board..
actually just take the photo people right out of it they don't really add imo. Take it again just with people standing on the squares with a chess piece in the foreground and spread through the frame.

jmo

Why even press the shutter button, really? Maybe just sketch the scene from memory.

 

[bribrius]

meh. who cares if someone is taking a photo?
The full frame and building and chess pieces and the large expanse of square made it better, least for me. In fact I think it needs more chess pieces. One in the foreground for more emphasis especially if you start cropping the chess board..
actually just take the photo people right out of it they don't really add imo. Take it again just with people standing on the squares with a chess piece in the foreground and spread through the frame.

jmo

Why even press the shutter button, really? Maybe just sketch the scene from memory.

Usually in all honesty, when I see someone taking a photo in my frame I wait for them to get the hell out of my way...:waiting:

for me the interesting part of this is what appears to be checkers, dominoes maybe and the chess pieces. This is some pretty cool stuff going on here. People mimicking any of the above would make the photo. I love the patterns in the windows on the building as a backdrop and the lights too. Lights are nice. People taking photos of others are in the way of the good stuff. And they aren't really mimicking any of the surrounding that I see, so they are detracting.

just my two cents though.

 

[Derrel]

It does appear to be some kind of a chess piece and checkers theme goin' on there. ANd yeah, at the far back of the plaza, those two tall black items do appear to be dominoes, one of them being toppled over.

 

[bribrius]

It does appear to be some kind of a chess piece and checkers theme goin' on there. ANd yeah, at the far back of the plaza, those two tall black items do appear to be dominoes, one of them being toppled over.

im kind of wondering how it would look in color and under those lights at night. People in some lucky placement that could really be a cool and very interesting shot.

 

[bribrius]

I like how you have stuck to the "Rule of Thirds" and made sure that the subject is not centered.

They didn't follow the rule of thirds. The group of people may not be centered from left to right but they are from top to bottom. Therefor they are not on one of the points of intersect if you were to draw a tick tack to grid on the image.

As for the photo of me is just does not work because there is a guy standing and blocking the view of what the person is talking a photograph of.

if I had to guess that is a wheelbarrow from the game monopoly.

im loving this thing its like a photographer playground.

 

[agp]

I must say I am not a fan of the different crops. And I do understand the thing with the left building being too dark and all, but cropping it out does not look right to me. I think the best way to make this photo better is if only two people were in it - one taking the picture and one having the picture taken. And I really like this photo for the windows as much as the chess pieces, also as much as the people... It's hard for me to eliminate the windows all together