Snapping up a pair

vvcarpio · Nov 9, 2014

"Snapping up a pair."

Thank you for looking.

Braineack · Nov 9, 2014

the dutch-tilt, oversaturation, and super-high contrast are straining my eyes.

vvcarpio · Nov 9, 2014

Thank you, Braineack. I'm trying lab-color saturation in Photoshop CC as the TSQ glitz-blitz can indeed overwhelm. I left the tilt on. I figured (rightfully or wrongfully) a properly corrected perspective didn't matter since the intended subject was bearing down on her subject, too.

sashbar · Nov 9, 2014

The visual weight of the background is so overwhelming that it is hard to see the subject, never mind notice "her subject". The oversaturation aggravates the problem even further.
For me it is a confusing mixture of two completely different images squeezed into one frame.

Granddad · Nov 9, 2014

The small person on his/her knees with what looks like a camera is your subject? A bit lost in the crowd there: as for their subject, my eyesight isn't up to seeing that they have one, even with my new reading specs.

Nevermore1 · Nov 9, 2014

I didn't even notice the person leaning down until I read your post mentioning it and scrolled back up to look. Too much going on in the background that pulls your eye away from it.

vvcarpio · Nov 9, 2014

Thank you, all. It's one in a series I sort of stumbled into. I was shooting NYC landmarks learning the HDR technique a few years back when occasionally, a person would stray into my scene and sit or stand -- or in this case, kneel -- and, to my annoyance, becomes part of the landscape. HDR, because I guess it gets confused with objects moving across frames, "deletes" them and leaves the single individual in my HDR-generated image. So although my original intent was to create NYC "postcards" devoid of crowds, I instead accumulated a few with solitary figures in them. This just happened to be the last one I captured. And through the series I ended up making (I now have over two hundred), I am hoping to introduce the viewer to the people that inhabit New York City instead, one solitary figure at a time.

Below are two more -- one was my second to the last capture and the next one I already posted somewhere in this forum.

"Making life a little easier for a two-legged friend."

"Immortalizing an old friend."

vvcarpio · Nov 9, 2014

"Yearning."

I have had comments before about the subject being hard to find. Then I've had comments where the city's enormity is important, too. I am hoping that once the viewer gets the idea, he or she either bails out or, hopefully, becomes absorbed.

DanOstergren · Nov 10, 2014

I think it's well done. Looks great to me, even with the tilt and saturation as is.

mmaria · Nov 10, 2014

the first one, pp I mean, is too much for my taste the others I really like.

good job!

DanOstergren · Nov 10, 2014

vvcarpio said:
Thank you, all. It's one in a series I sort of stumbled into. I was shooting NYC landmarks learning the HDR technique a few years back when occasionally, a person would stray into my scene and sit or stand -- or in this case, kneel -- and, to my annoyance, becomes part of the landscape. HDR, because I guess it gets confused with objects moving across frames, "deletes" them and leaves the single individual in my HDR-generated image. So although my original intent was to create NYC "postcards" devoid of crowds, I instead accumulated a few with solitary figures in them. This just happened to be the last one I captured. And through the series I ended up making (I now have over two hundred), I am hoping to introduce the viewer to the people that inhabit New York City instead, one solitary figure at a time.

Below are two more -- one was my second to the last capture and the next one I already posted somewhere in this forum.

"Making life a little easier for a two-legged friend."

"Immortalizing an old friend."

I would call those "Happy Accidents". This is a really compelling series in my opinion. Where can I see more?

vvcarpio · Nov 11, 2014

Hi, Dan, mmaria. Thank you. I added a few more below. They're at Solitude in New York City

"Feeling right at home."

"Being there, doing that."

"Hearing every word."

"Hitting a blank wall."

"Yearning to breathe free."

"Drowned in sound."

MichaelHenson · Nov 11, 2014

Gotta say, I actually REALLY like the ghostly images of people walking and traffic zooming past. Very different from the normal NY shots. Great captures! Thanks for sharing!