joys of the season Couple - Isola Tiberina - Rome

Thank you for your comments, critiques and suggestions, G.

Frequento questo luogo, ahime', tutti i giorni dal 31 dicembre 2009.

Ho visto la piena recente, giornate di sole (poche), uggiose (quasi tutte).

Questa foto colpisce per una certa rappresentazione bilanciata di spazi vuoti, di parti architettoniche e di paesaggio (il fiume). Poi ci sono tre persone, una coppia ed una figura in lontananza.

Però, a mio modesto avviso, manca un elemento significante. Mi sfugge la "storia" che questa foto racconta.

Ma magari mi sbaglio.

Alas, I see this place every day since 31st December 2009 (the building above the trees on the right is a hospital with an intensive care unit).

I've seen the Tiber flooding, sunny days (just a few) and cloudy days (most of them).

This photo is remarkable for a certain balanced representation of void space, architectural parts and landscape (the river). Then there are three persons: a couple and somebody in the distance.

In my opinion, however, it lacks some meaningful element. I fail to grasp the "story" told by this photo.

But maybe I'm wrong.

thanks so much for your comment. I can only imagine a sad story behind your first lines, so please know I am with you.

As far as the story behind the photo is concerned, well I liked very much the visual geometry of the place and decided to try a shot balancing the white pavement with the trees and the river. I'd call this one a little study on perspective and geometry. So the main story here is a visual one with a drop of "human isolation", and - for the moment - not the easiest to digest for my raters.

I worked on contrast and maybe I pushed it a bit too much, but this is how I "feel" this work.

Thank you Luca for your comment, ciao, Giuseppe

Strong composition and excellent tone handling

another excellent composition and bw. work...congrats.regards

I think this is a wonderful picture. I don’t go with “a picture must tell a story” fashion. In my opinion the strongest photos is those that is more about a state of being, both because they in my opinion is more intense because their subject is closer to ‘the human condition’ (in this case isolation) and because they show the strength of photography as a medium, because they seldom could have been done in any other medium. Therefore a ‘story’ in my opinion would have weakened a picture like this – the strength of expressing ‘isolation’ as a concept in human life is very hard to compete with. The use of the difference in scale between the two people in the foreground or even more so the person in the background, and the enormous light area on which they walk does the job very well. Have you considered cropping it a little in the top – may be it could be even stronger if these elements, the people and the light area, was aloud to dominate even more – I don’t know.

Re. Lars

 

- I like many of Giuseppe's photos very much.

- I never said that "a picture must tell story".

- I still believe that a street photo should tell a story. Otherwise it's something different.

- street photos materialise and de-materialise in seconds. It's different than shooting landscapes, or studio. That's the main difficulty.

- many of your photos don't need to tell a story, their visual impact is enough

- I respect your opinion as an architect (I come from a family of architects), but, even if I have appreciated the balanced representation of void space, architectural parts and landscape, this photo is much too full of different elements to represent the human condition of isolation.

- to me this photo documents a scene in a city (my city, Roma). It's a very good photo and I could very well imagine it presented in a wider context. Still it is not as "punchy" as other photos I have seen, from Giuseppe and others.

 

I probably would spend less time looking at photos, If I had more time to work scanning my negatives and sorting out my portfolio ... :-).

But I'm training my aesthetic perception.

 

PS: I'm of 1960, too. Good decade, the sixties! :-)

A remarkable pic - great perspective. Not a story - yes, but the unrelatedness of the couple and the person at the distance makes an impact. Nice tones too. Regards.

Extraordinary composition. The white space, the shadows, the linear elements, the curvatures, the perspective and the very well suited tonality – simply wonderful. The gait of the old couple is a fantastic capture.

 

 

No, it’s not a story. It’s an emotionally charged line of a poetry composed by a sensitive photographer.

Best regards.

Bravo!

-Forgive me for letting my frustrations about people that takes whether some kind of story can be applied to a picture or not as the only criterion of quality; I realise that you are not one of those. Not that I am against storytelling pictures, but I think, like I understand you do to, that the great diversity of photography should be appreciated and not repressed.

-You are absolutely right; year 1960 is one of the best.

-You are very lucky to live Rome; I envy you !

Re.: Lars

Lines and perspective of this image are great.A really excellent shot.

I thank you very much for your comments and opinions. Ciao, Giuseppe

A superb study in humanistic geometry. It's a picture that rivals those from the golden age of Life Magazine when all the greats of the day were contributing their work.

...o un lontano triangolo? Bellissima!

Ottima composizione, immagine intensa, bravo Giuseppe!

Bella inquadratura, come sempre un pò malinconica. Ciao.

with good composition and feeling. BR Hannu

I like this image, because of the scale demonstration our grandiose architecture and our smallness. To bad WE one time will crumble as our achievement, as many fallen in the distant past. The couple walking a way and the distant one single person add to this composition greatly. Even the shadows is a important part of this image. Bravo Giussepe.

 

Cheers; Bela

Wonderful composition!

Hi Giuseppe

late, as always. I need to catch up PNet after a period of intense work. Now: I think this is a very good image. You came over (or waited for) a very good moment, and choose a very good point from where to frame it. Composition elements are quite strong: the big, balanced blocks of dark-light-dark tones, the strong perspective sense of the tiled bank, the connection between the couple in the foreground and the lone person in the background, the shadow of the two persons, even the sense of fatigue in the pose of the two persons. Everything evokes, as someone put it before me, a "state of mind", more than a "story", very strongly.

What I have an issue with is the framing, namely, the vast space at the bottom. I have the feeling this is an image which could benefit from a less elongated crop. Lately I see myself using more and more often a 4:3 crop in some of my vertical images. I rarely like a perfectly square crop, but sometimes 3:2 is just too rectangular in my eye. So I tried it here, I hope you don't mind, and attach the result. My feeling is that it works better, but of course it is a matter of tastes.

Ciao!

L.

RE. Lars

is a long way from 2 to 1

BB

you must be very patient. best, jamie