The kiss

Pretty cool. BR / Volker

One of these incredibly lucky chances. I was taking photos of this

couple while they walked across the Institute of Modern Art in

Nuremberg. I had already snapped a couple when she stops, turns to the

glass and takes a photo of the scenery outside. In that moment he

moves to kiss her. They were quite small in the viewfinder and I did

not notice it at all. It was only after when I reviewed the images on

the LCD that I saw...

What do you think?

Excellent shot.  Congratulations! 

Very artistic

surprise surprise again, Luca. i zoomed in, and they're two women! the framing of the two stories of windows is beautiful, and the inclusion of the painting/window lower right is a beautiful balance of the color in the scene. the kiss is the wonderful touch that humanizes the art work! superb and clean. ;-} dp

Excellent shot!

Ciao Luca,

Great shot with fabulous play of lines, colors and shapes. As well as that lucky kiss. Everything worked out perfect here. And interesting details of the interior.

Very well done, my compliments

All the best

really, really a lucky strike!

She's taller than him! :-)

The picture is just too funny.

Did your flash fire? Or what is the reflection on the red part of the painting?

L.

luck favors the prepared, great job at being in the moment; nice work

Wonderful composition.

Nice shot and a nice composition.  Artful.

Interesting composition

Best regards

Xavier Corcobado

xcorcobado.blogspot.com

Very good shot ! Congratulations !

I'm back !

What do you think about my version ?

Best regards, Mircea

Very nice.  I especially like the bottom window and all the action there.  The top frame almost seems unnecessary to me and a little distracting. 

Now Luca, this is a keeper again!

Perfect shot which walks into my favourites also.

I also had the immediate though to crop it like Mircea already did. But that's personal taste.

Congratulations Axel

Hi all,

thanks a lot for all the nice and useful comments. I'll try to address some in detail:

Donna: no, I'm fairly sure the kissing one is a guy, judging from the full resolution images (I have some more I had shot before). I cannot be 100% sure since they are never big in the frame.

Luca: no flash here. It would not have worked anyway since I was at something like 50 meters from them. The reflection on the painting is from some light in the interior.

Mircea, Amitai, Axel about different crops: I have been thinking about this. The photo is already somewhat cropped like this, I had to correct some unpleasant perspective effect, plus it was a bit too wide. I had considered a crop as the one Mircea shows, as well as a very toght horizontal one around the lower window. My feeling is that they both (the tighter more so) detract from the perception of the environment surrounding the fact. For me, this was not a photo of a guy kissing a girl (or a girl kissing a girl if Donna is right...). This is a photo of a small kiss happening in a large, empty museum hall in the dusk. The photo for me lives on the relationship between, on one side, the tiny space between lips and cheek, a space between living things, which will be gone in a split second, and, on the other side, the vast, empty, linear, modern space around them, flooded in white light, filled with incomprehensible objects. And the night outside.

I feel that the photo needs that slight asymmetry, that feeling that there is more of the same outside the frame, that is given by leaving the two windows on the left. And it definitely needs the upper floor, which gives precisely that sense of immersion in a larger space I was mentioning. But of course, I do see the appeal of a tighter crop, I'm not telling any of you guys are wrong, just trying to explain why I did it like this.

Thank you all again!

L.

gladius.

BB