Time Line

Still time left . . .

the old the younger behind and the lines on the deck...nice metaphor.

If only we could bend time as easily as we bend light.

 

I like this photograph very much and I think you have used the lens in a most effective way to highlight the primary subject. It really does give the appearance of a receeding time line (time equals distance). If I were to attempt to set up a shot like this I might have a toddler at the far end of the platform. I also think you could make very effective use of multiple exposures in this shot by using a series of "ghost" images leading to the final image of the subject in the foreground.

 

I hope you have more of these coming. ;-)

I confess that the metaphor was recognized after the fact. I spent last weekend in Cape May, NJ, and took quite a few fisheye street shots. I have a couple more that I like, but the percentages are quite low (most are hip shots.)

 

I'm not opposed to setups. In fact I did get my wife to pose for one, but I figure more than one a day gets old for her, so I'm mostly out hunting for unsuspecting subjects.

there is a lot of energy and strengh from the lines (deck and roof line) contrasting with the slow old mans physical weakness...I have the impression the whole picture is moving along the lines with the old guy just immobile in the flow (like horizontal people mover in airport)...strange and original....congrats.

For me there seems to be an odd dichotomy at work here. The projection of lines is forward, left to right and the main figure of the composition is positioned prominently, right-center. Yet in terms of light and dark, it's the point of convergence in the background, far left center, that seems to display the greatest sharpness and clarity. The overall effect is to flatten the strong 3-D linear composition. It's an interesting effect since it gives the picture a very unusual 2-D, illustrative feeling. Hard to put my thoughts into words but this was the best I could do on short notice.

How anyone could rate this an average (4,4) shot is beyond me. This is fine work, Carl.

 

I never can tell what you are shooting anymore.

 

--Lannie

Part of the effect from the lines comes from cropping off about a third from the right. This makes the spherical effect from a fisheye less obvious.

 

I'd give it a 5/5. :-)

Interesting and well done "Street Life"

I think that "time warp" might have worked as a title, too.

 

--Lannie

The older I get, the more I appreciate what it must be like to see the world change around you, becoming more and more alien in many respects. It's one thing to have the 1950s as a cultural reference. Quite another to look at life from the perspective of the 1930s.