Color street photography

An inspired shot! But I think it would be even stronger if you'd crop off the little bit of reality represented by the wall under the window sill.

unclejohn wrote in post #19398675
An inspired shot! But I think it would be even stronger if you'd crop off the little bit of reality represented by the wall under the window sill.

I agree with you here!

I think it is required to hold the left & right part of the image together.

A couple more from Euro-PRIDE 2006, London

unclejohn wrote in post #19398675
An inspired shot! But I think it would be even stronger if you'd crop off the little bit of reality represented by the wall under the window sill.

scriveyn wrote in post #19398722
I think it is required to hold the left & right part of the image together.

I agree with both of you. Leave enough of the wall below the blue strip to show what the situation was, otherwise the window scene floats away. But you don't need the whole recessed panel.

When I have something like this to crop, often parallel bands created by architecture but sometimes just shadows, I pay attention to the relative widths of the "stripes," trying to get pleasing ratios that, if possible, are odd enough to provide visual tension. I mean, avoid obvious boring proportions like 2:1.

I stick to my guns. To me the circular design and the tigers and people facing each other are plenty enough to tie the picture together. But I recognize that we don't all "see" a photo in the same way. There may even be cultural differences. In a world-wide contest to write haiku based on photographs, American participants tended to write about (and presumably see as being important) the main objects in the photo, whereas the Japanese tended to write about the photo as a whole.

unclejohn wrote in post #19398882
There may even be cultural differences. In a world-wide contest to write haiku based on photographs, American participants tended to write about (and presumably see as being important) the main objects in the photo, whereas the Japanese tended to write about the photo as a whole.

I've read about a similar finding, not with haiku but more generally. Americans attend more to the central or prominent objects in a picture. People in other cultures give more consideration to other elements and the picture as a whole. Maybe this is why so many images in the Flowers thread center a single big bloom in the frame, with a neutral background that lacks detail.

At yesterday's Don't Extradite Assange protest, outside UK Home Office. Second image is at 18mm FF equivalent.

scriveyn wrote in post #19398722
I think it is required to hold the left & right part of the image together.

That was my feeling, but I also wanted to ground the fantasy in reality. And yes, I could have cropped it a little more.

Not your typical street , but I live in the tropics of northern Australia .

Hangable-uppable.