Daughter and father at the historical Battery Park...

I really like this. It has a nostalgic feel and truly captures a moment. Great job.

In fact I would have given 9/9 without the people at the background but anayway it's a great shot. Congratulation

I'm not sure the subjects are clear enough here. Perhaps a shallower depth of field would help. I can see what you're trying to convey, but I can't help but feel that it gets lost in the busy background. I do like your composition, though.

cropping it and leave in the picture the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th telescopes only?

I agree that the people in the background take away much of the power this would otherwise have. I don't know how effective it would have been to move to the left, but that might have put them behind one of the scopes. Cropping them out, in my opinion, squeezes the meaty part too much and doesn't work. The activity of the two in the foreground is pretty funny, though.

I like the photo, it captures a nice moment but to me I think in this case the contrast is too high or in the alternative you might want to dodge the back of the man's pants and his daughter's shirt. I think the exposure is good but the shadows are over blocking, I would just want to see a little more detail in a few spots for this photo, which I think you'd get if you used a lower contrast filter when printing or lower the contrast in scanning. Just an opinion.

Cheers

I would appreciate if you could rate/comment this street shot. I

really liked capturing this magic moment between a father and a

Daughter spending some time together.

I have to disagree with those that think you should have a shallow DOF. This is something you would see in a LIFE magazine of the past. I am drawn to the father and daughter while still being aware of the small group to the left. You've done a great job of conveying an ordinary day in the life of....

As I always feel, b&w photography is for beautiful prints on silver paper ;-)

However, I have a great feeling about this picture.

Just one thing that would greatly improve it:

lighten a bit the daughter's face (in photoshop).

Under the enlarger (I wish you to have one, if you still not...), just dodge 1/3 of the base time.

I would also add some artificial vignetting to the picture.

Creating an light progression to your central subject often helps understanding & reading your picture the way you want to show it.

 

Great & sensitive photography, anyway.

 

Can you also have a look a my folder "I'm not sure I was there" (photos in thailand)?

Go on shooting...

I would have moved closer, and at a angle where more of their faces could be seen. Due to the shadows i would have used fill-in flash (although i generally i dislike flas as it flattens). This is a nice photo as it is..my thoughts which you asked for.

Jean, thanks for commenting my first posted photo. It gives me encouragement to get feedback on my work. Likewise, I like your father/daughter photo. I would have cropped it tighter at the top and the right side, while leaving in all four binoculars. But cropping tighter, yoiu get more of the man of girl in the shot. Otherwise, it is indeed a Life magazine type of shot. Very classic.

I relly love the contrast and the subject. Great job.

The two people on the right could be taken out. The people in the foreground are a little distracting. However the warm mood of the photograph makes up for any technical imperfections. Ultimatley had you not taken the shot when you did, you would not have it, and I would not have had the pleasure of enjoying it...

Jean-François, you asked me to review your picture so here I go. I don't think I would have wrote a comment on it otherwise. For me the picture is too crowded (cluttered?), there are too many things to look at and the important subject does not appear immediately. There are these groups of people in the background, the father and the child, the telescopes and the tubes close to the water... Personally, I prefer cleaner compositions, or compositions in which the eye is guided in its movement in the picture. I will not rate this picture, but if I did it would not have been a good rating. Hope this helps anyway despite my "negativism"... ;-)

I like it as it is ! The people in the background appear to me a a necessary aspect of this picture. They leave room for imagination... is the man looking at these people ? It is certainly one of the more attractive scenes one can meet on the street, cought in a very good photo.

 

In contrast with studiophotography and landscape photp's, street photography leave much more room for expressing an individual interpretation via the photo. This means that the reactions on such photo's are much more diverse. And that is a characteristic of real art. It is made without a preprogrammed public reaction in mind. The reaction as such is also less relevant for the worth of the art-piece. It is the expression of the artist personal approach that counts.

 

And I find you perfectly succeed in putting your personal approach in this photo. The composition is a perfect balance of parallel and crossing lines disrupted by the cuved figure of the man. One can discuss the role of the background people, however I find them necessary.

I like this shot for its contrastieness(did I just make up that word?) which gives it an old time feel. I also agree that the people in the background add a neccessary streety feel. With the close crop it's hard to imagine where the father and duaghter are, what they are looking at, sav from the title. I would have immediatley circled around and got a shot from the front as well. ;)

Jean-Francois I usually don't review photo's that I find via a Please Review This Photo hyperlink. In this case I will make an exception. I don't or rather can't seem to shoot street...I ain't got the nack. I shoot people on the street fairly well. My strength is printing. With that in mind your shot is good although it may be considered busy. The print on the other hand is flawless...well done!

It's a great image. I agree the background is a little busy, and I first thought about cropping it vertically, but when I saw it cropped I noticed It lost the sense of depth of field. Another possibility that occurred me was to use a shorter lens (wide angle) to make the background smaller in comparison to the first plane. Just an idea, but the image is great the way it is. Congratulations!

I like this image. In my opinion, photographs are best left in their unmollested form. However, since this is a critique, I would make the bold suggestion that the balance of the picture might be improved had you been slightly more to the left of the father and daughter. I think that they are the main element of the picture, and having slightly more space between them would have left both more noticable (right now, the girls head is partly hidden and the man's behind is, well, there...). Additionaly, such a change would have left the three (?) people in the background out of the way of the second telescope.

 

I don't think shallow depth of field works for this kind of shot; keeping everthing sharp ensures the a delightful juxtaposition of subject and surroundings.

Jean-Francois, I agree that this photo would be better if there were no other people in the background. However, having said that, I have to tell you I think this is extremely well done. The fact is, this is a heavily traveled walkway & you could have been there all day & still not have come away with a clean shot - nature of the beast. As it stands, I wouldn't change a thing. I think you did a fine job.

I like the photo just as it is... Nice composition, following the rule of the thirds... The father and the daughter captured my attention imediately, and I don't find the people in the back distracting. In fact, I think they add to the "real life" look of this photo. The contrast here is a bit harsh, but it doesn't bother me, since more detail in the man's pants or the girls head (as someone suggested) wouldn't benefit the photo much, IMHO. Good job!