The random nature of people

[Ian63]

Couples and individuals.... for a moment they all seemed to just line up... like some kind of random natural balance. I don't know... that's what I saw anyway.

 

[The_Traveler]

I like the picture and the idea but the sharpening halos are really intrusive.

 

[Derrel]

It's an okay shot as far as the placement of the people goes...the ferry boats in the background, and the mountains behind the boy's head are nice elements. It DOES have a sort of random feeling to it, a sort of slice-of-time feeling. I'm not overly fond of the halo'd, high-contrast almost litho film look to the processing, but it does serve to make the scene more abstracted...the high-contrast processing renders the scene in a way that makes us step back a bit, and forces a bit of the photographic process onto the viewer. One of my old art professors loved this type of exceptionally high-contrast type of image, which we used to get by printing on ultra-hard Agfa TP6 photographic paper, a "Grade 6" paper that looked a lot like this (minus the digital haloing)!

If this shot were processed to a normal contrast, the water would "come back", and that might greatly alter the image, probably for the worse.

 

[Ian63]

Gents, thank you for your observations. I wanted a "graphic novel" look for this photo. I realize that it is not appealing to everyone... nonetheless, thank you once again.