'Springtime Girl Watching'

Fast food is rare and expensive by Ukrainian salary standards, and

youth obesity is rare. This pretty young Kyiv coed's figure typifies

that of many Ukrainian women her age, and it barely turns virile

young male heads, as there are a large number of very attractive,

slender young women in the mating/dating pool every Spring. Your

ratings, critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly, very critically, or just 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

I tried no fewer than ten times to post this photo over the last year but to no avail.  Some glitch in the file or in Photo.net's upload software prevented it from being uploaded, and each time it was rejected, over and over and over and over again.

I uploaded it with great success to another site and on Google.com it shows on one of my listings as my first photo, but Photo.netters have not seen it on this site.

Finally through 'save for web' I have stripped it of all the tabs and other EXIF info and also converted first to BMP then back to JPEG and now it is uploadable.

For all I know, however, the original is uploadable too, and PN just has changed its upload software, as I no longer expected the original to be uploadable so I just did not try any more but made changes almost guaranteed to post it.

I'm glad I succeeded; I hope you like it; it took some trouble getting it onto this site (but none on the other site).

john

John (Crosley)

Great candid capture and the title is perfect. The B&W puts the focus on the subject alone with no color to distract. The shadow works well here too, as does the setting. Nice to be "girlwatching" in a place where this girl is just "run of the mill!" Nice work!

Dear John,I valued your notes over the ordinary photo.

and I wish that every photographer could do give such a fine and valued notes that is to be linked to his or her photography.

Saad.

Girlwatching for males (and many females) can be fun, but it sometimes can be hard to put one's finger on what makes a for a good photo in that subgenre.

Here the subject is very attractive, and dare I say it, has GREAT LEGS, displayed very well, but otherwise, you do a very good job of explaining to me, the photographer why this (my photo) why my demurely seen, candid subject 'works' so well.

I have long been attracted to this photo and thought it might do well on sharing, possibly not for traditional photo compositional values, but just as a nice, comfortable, easy-to-watch photo, and I think your analysis is right on.

Thanks for your help in understanding its viewer dynamics.

john

John (Crosley)

Long ago when I first began posting, I began to post rather lengthy stories of how my photos came about, the circumstances, and the tasks I faced in getting each, and there were some who protested saying only the photo counted.

Really, that is true, but this site is full of neophytes and otherwise who are very curious.  It's a worldwide audience, and many of my subjects are from different backgrounds that are not often easily understood by the average Photo.netter, and therefore explanations tend to make good stories, I feel.  I'm a writer by former profession, so I'm able to write well enough to make clear, readable explanations (when I'm not falling asleep).

I try to answer the questions when posting I would ask if I were looking at the photo and talking to the photographer about his photo -- in anticipation -- since few will be bold enough to ask those questions in the forum but still are interested.

I think (like you seem to say) it makes for a richer viewer experience, and my e-mail and comments backs that up.  Naysayers are far outnumbered and only need just look at the photos and ignore the verbiage, as I remind them.

Thanks for your reassuring comment; it helps me shape how I approach my task each time I sit down to post or respond.

john

John (Crosley)