Young French Woman at Lunch

[kdthomas]

 

[sashbar]

It looks like you shoot your subjects from a distance and then crop the liv ing he'll out of your images. Yes she is an attractive girl, but a pretty face is not enough for a decent image I want to see where she is, who she is with , what is she doing . I want to see sms geometry in the frame, some depth, some light. Light here is not plleasing, the face is almost edge lit. You are shooting with a top camera, do it some justice. If for some reason you want an isolated portraits, look for the light, come closer and shoot from about two meters or three feet, do it quick. You can do it with a zoom, but your images will be flat. With a street portrporter want to be there, in the scene. Zoom keeps the distance and makes street portraits cold if you know what I mean
I love to see another guy who is not afraid to take pictures of strangers on the street, but there is a liking way to go here, in more than one sense. Good luck.

 

[The_Traveler]

It looks like you shoot your subjects from a distance and then crop the liv ing he'll out of your images. Yes she is an attractive girl, but a pretty face is not enough for a decent image I want to see where she is, who she is with , what is she doing . I want to see some geometry in the frame, some depth, some light. Light here is not plleasing, the face is almost edge lit. You are shooting with a top camera, do it some justice. If for some reason you want an isolated portraits, look for the light, come closer and shoot from about two meters or three feet, do it quick. You can do it with a zoom, but your images will be flat. With a street portrporter want to be there, in the scene. Zoom keeps the distance and makes street portraits cold if you know what I mean
I love to see another guy who is not afraid to take pictures of strangers on the street, but there is a liking way to go here, in more than one sense. Good luck.

What he said.

Street shooting is not just getting something in focus and making it B&W to give it some gravitas.
If you are not giving the viewer something, some part of a story or idea or emotion, you are not succeeding.

 

[Bo4key]

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa

 

[D-B-J]

Where's the context?! Just a pretty face doesn't make a good photo...

 

[bribrius]

i cant figure out why you invaded her privacy just to get this. seems if you photograph someone you should at least have something you saw in it or a purpose to give reason for capturing them. Any purpose for it really. i cant find one here. It makes you look like a stalker as i cant fathom a reason for the photo. (just kidding)

 

[Fred Berg]

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa

Yes, but watch your step.

 

[kdthomas]

i cant figure out why you invaded her privacy just to get this. seems if you photograph someone you should at least have something you saw in it or a purpose to give reason for capturing them. Any purpose for it really. i cant find one here. It makes you look like a stalker as i cant fathom a reason for the photo. (just kidding)

Actually I did ask her permission

 

[kdthomas]

OK, so good points all, thanks (even though they may not have all been easy to hear )

The Limo Driver | Photography Forum

So with a photo like this limo driver, I think my takeaway is that maybe I did a better job with him, because we see that the man is a driver because of the car in the BG, his uniform, he's in a garage, and we get the story very quickly because of the context ... he's a weary limo driver taking a smoke break.

These photos of this lady didn't succeed because they're just a face in a vaccuum, nothing around her to tell the story of what she's doing there. Maybe my own memory of the moment and the atmosphere allow *ME* to know the context and (spirit?) of the moment, and that makes it pleasing to *ME* ... but it doesn't come through to the *viewer* who wasn't there.

Am I getting that right?

 

[The_Traveler]

Yes.
There needs to be enough context that viewers can see why you took the picture.
Making the connection is not enough by itself to make it a good picture.
And some of the connection depends on the ability of your audience to project.

So, subtle pictures that may be great to a small percentage of your viewers may fall flat to a larger percentage.