new -- color & b&w 'Pattern Play'

Children often are very aware and respectful of patterns and other

features on the surfaces they play on and incorporate those feature

into their play. Here a young girl leaps over a place where two large

wooden palates join which cover the bottom of a fountain, emptied for

a large holiday celebration, so no one falls in, which will be removed

and the fountain refilled the next day. Your ratings, critiques and

observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very

critically or wish to make a remark, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

This child did not know she was being photographed and did not participate in the process.

john

John (Crosley)

Very good timing. The B&W fits there. Heck, even the crop.

Esteve

Thank you so much. 

Because of the color the child was clad in, the photo never will be shown in color; it's exclusively a black and white photo.

Thanks again.

John (Crosley)

Dynamic and graphical work, excellent texture and conversion.

This is one created (yes 'created') strictly by the tenets of my Presentation, 'Photographers:  Watch Your Background' (or words to that effect) which teaches how to incorporate a good background and create a good capture.

Here, a found the 'background', paying kids and just focused on the background with plenty of depth of field, didn't move and with a fast enough shutter speed, waited for the proper kid (of tens of shots) to cross in the right spot.

I might have ended up with nothing, but experience showed that if I got something it would be worthwhile, as here.

This shot is entirely manufactured through pre-planning without cooperation from the kid or this kid's knowledge, just playing the odds and choosing a likely background then waiting shutter release at the ready, and firing plenty, editing later.

It's almost a science to get such a shot, and I don't mind giving away the way to make such a capture . . . . there are so many other captures and ways to get them that can't be copied.

Thanks for the kind observation.

john

John (Crosley)

You may not have known how complimentary your remark is, but my principle aim here is to make interesting captures!

Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

I'm proud to be able (when I'm in Kyiv) to be able to call myself 'Kyiv's Other Good Photographer (on Photo.net)' bowing to your clear superiority.

I'm grateful when you stop by for a visit from time to time to comment on my more pedestrian works.  Your artistic vision I find inspiring . . . . here from my own often more narrow niche.

;~)

john

John (Crosley)