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'Spring Idyl'


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Artist: JOHN CROSLEY PHOTOGRAPHY/CROSLEY PHOTOGRAPHY TRUST 2010;John Crosley and John Crosley Trust © 2010 All Rights Reserved, No reproduction without express advance written permission of copyright holder;
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows;
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This composition could be taken in any season, absent snow and ice,

but the couple tells us by their actions it's Spring. Your ratings and

critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very

critically, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John

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Lines, Curves, & Love - I like this very much both in comp and tonality....If I had to find something to critique, it would be the "feet" at the far end of the image - they are a bit of a distraction. I do not think a bit of cropping would hurt this image at all.

Very well seen!

 

 

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I was well aware of the prominence of the 'feet' and the availability now of Photoshop CS5, which would do a content aware fill if I decided to replace them by doing a quick clone using the clone stamp tool, but I decided not to do that, and to see what critics (such as yourself) had to say.

It is too easy to submit something that it easy and 'clean' and not controversial, and to my mind it takes far more courage to submit something that some may obviously reject as a 'defect' while at the same time appealing possibly to a few. 

For instance this may be seen as 'mirroring', two people kissing, two pairs of feet in distance . . . . it may be weak or it may be a special touch for me; I like to test the wind, and my mind is not hurt much by lower rates, as I am aware of how such things may hurt rates and accept them in advance.

Frankly Ken, if I sit still long enough in one place, I can see fantastic things, so many times, it is a restraint to keep from filling flash card after flash card (or SD card or whatever) with captures.  I know when I go out now, that the likelihood is I'll get a publishable or gallery worthy photo, even though I usually haven't got the slightest idea where I'll go or why except to take a stroll or just 'go out' and take one or more cameras with me, doesn't matter, day or night or transition between two (sunrise or sunset).

Even in the middle of the night (with fast lenses and high ISO capable cameras).

Life is wonderful these days for the well equipped photogapher.

I'm again backed up months and months, though this was recent; I just take one from a recent shooting and work it up, then pass on wonderful stuff that may need more photoshop work, and pray that I'll have good to excellent help later.

I really need a team of photoshoppers.

I went out tonight for a short walk, took scenics to portraits and evening Metro shots underground shots, (the two are different, ask any Londoner), and came away with some winners . . . . which may not show up for a very long time . . . . but they please me well.

I filled up two and a fraction 8-gig flash cards with NEF-JPEG large combos from my 12 mp file cameras.  People saw them, and when they saw some of them (selected) I got thumbs up (I always show a few to strangers who always are inquiring, right after they ask me how much do my cameras cost, which I always refuse to answer - who knows who has a criminal friend - or mind and I'll find them following me soon.

It has happened, and at LA's Venice Beach at sunset recently (I have the guy's photo for police in case of future trouble, and make sure to look around carefully at all times (I've been in war, riots, and the ultimate urban nightmare, NYC in the '60s, when everybody had five locks on their door and everybody carried a box cutter before Muhammad Atta made them famous.)

Worse, I lived through the most photoworthy events possible right after I got my camera and could have got a Pulitzer (really!!!!) but my camera had 'no film'  - even when I got shot and even when released from the hospital to police in the middle of a riot and even when rioters stormed the police station, me inside.

No film = no film = no photos (just my word and nothing more).

Drat.

A Pulitzer at age 21 would have been nice.

It really would have been possible if I had film.

Friends have gotten them for less.

(no denigration of my friends' photos which truly were worthy.)

Just the photo of the white cop chewing a stogie, double barrel shotgun in hand shouldered, aiming down, at top of police station stairs holding off black rioters in Trenton, wielding axe handles trying to get up the stairs to him and me, would have been worthy, I think.

Imagine how scared I was and how fearsome I learned a shotgun can be.

(Two of them died that night . . . even a photo of one of the cops who shot one of the rioters to death . . . . would have been a landmark . . . . as the rioter was a divinity student and the young cop was torn to bits . . . . . . and looked like it throughout the later evening -- I wonder if he ever got over it.)

Then much later, the tour (while on a cane because I had been shot and couldn't walk unaided) through the holding cell walkways, with the black faces yelling and spitting at me solely because I was white, would have yielded a great photo.

I got a train, alone, when dropped in later morning (before winter dawn at the train station and arrived in NYC hours later, alone, still no film, no photos, and only memories to spin to guys like you.

Decades later.

I got an eye for a photo.

And a circumstance.

This one is minor, but appealing, just one of many.

I took others of the same bench, appealing in a different way. 

Keep a mental note; maybe you'll see one or another such bench photo in the distant future and say 'aha, I recall that bench, John really makes do with almost nothing!'

And I do.

You always make a genuine contribution when you make a comment; thanks Ken.

john

John (Crosley)

 

 

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