Waiting On A Friend

Marvelous

Very thoughtful and excellent composition !! Good work.

 

Louis Tsai

Nice photo. Good composition, framing, verticles, tone, all well done. BUT... not a winner. A winner would move the human toward the left front just left of center. There would be a newspaper on his lap and he would be bending forward, hat on the bench beside him, head in hands supported on his knees, staring at the open newspaper on his lap. This would match the somber mood of the photo with the fog and low key over all. The title would be... "The Obit."

The lesson is to LOOK at the scene, develope a theme... and run with it.

 

Russ. Hamilton

Very classic

Very classic

Very very nice and well done. I agree about the man in the picture being more to the left but a wonderful picture nevertheless. The mood of the picture is great! Good job!

Really super black and white images. This one is terrific too... Very moody and nice composition. Agree with the idea of moving the man left of center... Other than that it is perfect.

Not on the left, not with a newspaper, not with a cat, not with a hat, not with green eggs or hams, not even with his head in his hands.

 

I agree that you did chop off the poor guys toes so it would be nice to move him a bit left, but I like him facing out of the picture. The concept is that he is waiting for somebody. Putting him on the left facing into the picture would be SO cliché and take away all the tension. Putting his chin in his hands and adding a newspaper would do the same thing. All that empty bench on the right is as powerful as the fog. The position, direction, and fog all create the action and discomfort of waiting for a friend instead of just a man on a bench in London.(ß slight slam).

 

 

I love this photo. The composition is great and it is technically excellent. I am jealous I did not make this photograph! I can't agree with the advice given above "The Obit." Maybe that is the way that poster saw it, but each photographer has his own vision. I don't think most of us make photographs to get the "money shot" that pushes all the right buttons.

I like the old masters' look this image shows.

It looks quintessentialy Leica.

Solid composition thanks to use of line and DOF.

I love. The way it is.

Agree with the comment that the placement of the man where he is in the photo creates the essential tension that defines the "extra" in this one. My 2c FWIW and congrats.

This is a great photo. I really like how you used the fog in the background to create a nature shallow depth of field. A shallow depth of field could have been done by shooting at a low F stop, but the fog does it much better. This is a great "mood" shot. Sometimes photos tell us information and sometimes they make us feel. This makes me feel nostalgic. Great photo

I like this picture. It may be a bit too top heavy with the branches of the tree covering half of the image. I like the fact that the man is off center, but could he have been in a different location? The caption makes my eyes look for that friend, but when I see the patient party staring at the edge of the picture, my search is ended abruptly. However, I certainly like the picture much more than I dislike it.

I think it's important to remember that what we photograph depends at least in part on what's there. I agree that it would be nice to see the man a bit to the left, and I don't particularly like the tree blocking the lamp and the sky, but maybe the man was a stranger (not a model) and maybe the tree was too heavy and well rooted for the photographer to replant somewhere else. Repositioning the camera would have changed the composition and lost the beautiful arc of the bench. In the end, this photo does a great job of capturing (not creating) a somber moment.

I like the mood of this image.

 

I do feel the man should be facing 'inward' of the image because I want to look off the page to see if there is someone comming. And, the way he is sitting looks (to me) uncomfortable, but, if it is a candid shot his placement and direction is a moot point.

 

All in all I like it and is one I would not mind having hanging on my wall.