Elderly Man Marches Past Gravestones

[hmv]

Hi

Just messing around with a fisheye when I happened to make this :-

http://zonky.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=7180&g2_serialNumber=2

Initially I wasn't pleased that the man was in the picture. I re-took without him there, but finally like him better where he is.

Comments anyone ?

[scott searles]

very cool..in a creepy sort of way. I like it

[Miniflash]

I like this shot alot Mike it has alot of imagination and love the fisheye use I've never seen one that I liked as much great job~

[sblais]

Very good shot, it has a lot of potential! :) I just wish that the attention was more on the man walking than the gravestones. I think that this would have been possible if the cropping was not as tight on the left. I would have also included the whole building (church?) at the top of the photo by eliminating the negative space to the bottom right of the picture.

Here's a different crop:

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[hmv]

Thanks for the comments. I'm fond of aiming for creepy ... cool is a bonus that I can't aim for because I'm not sure what it is :)

Very good shot, it has a lot of potential! :) I just wish that the attention was more on the man walking than the gravestones. I think that this would have been possible if the cropping was not as tight on the left. I would have also included the whole building (church?) at the top of the photo by eliminating the negative space to the bottom right of the picture.

Here's a different crop:


So you didn't like my beer gut in there ? Good call :)

Your comments are undoubtedly right but :-

1: I was initially aiming more for the gravestones when this old man walked into frame. I only included him on the spur of the moment.

2: I was trying to exclude a lot of city clutter to the left ... parked cars, the road in front of the 'church', a row of unappealing buildings in the background. I think the same applies to cropping some of the 'church'.

The 'church' is in fact Portsmouth's second cathedral; unusually Portsmouth's first cathedral was the Catholic one rather than a Protestant one.

[gatorohio]

I like it a lot. I agree more emphasis on the man would be better but you take what you can get sometimes. Nice image.

[scott searles]

...or possibly even less emphasis on the old man... make him ghostlike... some may miss it but those that don't may have a little startle... I realize that it becaome a diffrent picture that but it might be fun to fool around with

[sblais]

So you didn't like my beer gut in there ? Good call :)

Your comments are undoubtedly right but :-

Oh, I understand that everything is not possible! I was just suggesting a few things but only you know what the situation was like! Like I said, it's still a very nice shot!