'Last Kiss Before the Final Metro Train'

This couple takes a moment before the last of Kyiv's Ukraine's frequent

Metro trains on a popular line stops,, to have a final embrace and a

smooch -- something that is quite popular and common in Kyiv and its

Metro late at night. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful

and constructive comment or make a remark; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

Think this is a badly lighted photo?  Think I have shown it with bad lighting and it should be brighter overall?

In my view, then you have missed the point.

This is a depiction of a nighttime scene, with dim light.

It is supposed to be dimly lighted.

Of course with Nikon Matrix Metering or any correct metering, any scene can be rendered to 18 per cent gray scale overall, but that's not the correct solution for all photos.  It may work well for a substantial number, but artistic representation can require a photo to be rendered almost all white (high key) or all black (low key)_ and still be stunning.

This is a scene of a couple kissing in the shadows of an otherwise dimly lighted scene.

Accordingly, they are shown barely visible, so your eye has to work to see them properly, just as it does as you walk toward them from better light.

Your eye will adjust somewhat as it gets nearer and scans the scene, something SLR cameras cannot do, since they only take one exposure but your eye takes several exposures continually as it continually scans a scene, adjusting, adjusting and continually adjusting.

So, if you somehow got the idea this was a bad presentation because YOU had to work to see the scene, then I have succeeded (provided you didn't just flip to the next photo here).

Just for the record.

john

John (Crosley)

P.S., it's easy as can be to render everything brightly - there's plenty of information in the capture to do that, but it would be wrongly presented then.

jc