'Courtship -- Human Style'

This couple is just doing one of the strange dances after dark one

evening that comes with courtship, human style. Your ratings,

critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly, very critically, or wish to make an observation, please submit

a helpful and constructive comment; please share your photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

This photo was taken with a D2Xs under street lights after dark.

john

John (Crosley)

Interesting. The first thing I noticed, before reading your comment, when opening the photo, was the strange quality, which I thought was your processing. I'm curious how it came to look like this if it was under streetlights in the dark. What made you not want to preserve the night lit look? This looks like a very strange and hard daylight with shadows lightened, though I'm not sure of that. It just feels harsh and indelicate. Their "dance," as it appears, is an engaging one, and their outfits complement them well. Interesting choice to give so much room to the foreground pavement rather than giving the photo more height by including more above them. This has your very distinct signature but leaves me a little wanting.

Sometimes image quality dictates what you see.

Here, this nighttime photo under streetlights was taken with a D2Xs, and stretched way too far the ISO of the upper reaches of the sensor.

As a result, cropping was out, since the detail in the couple if simply not great enough for cropping.

I have a D3200, a camera that now sells for $350 refurbished new without lens that would have captured all the detail at ISO 3200 and with more than sufficient pixels (24m) for cropping in any aspect ratio, but that was not the case here.

I saw, I raised my camera, the event was ephemeral, so since the foreground was included it got included in the print.

In any case, I'm not sure I would not show this as it is even taken with a more modern camera; I tend to crop too tightly as is sometimes.

So there you have the explanation Fred, whether it sits well with you or not.

I would have liked to see his feet on top of her shoes for a more intimate look, and I think that also happened, but at another time.

Alas.

Best to you friend; been missing your great contributions.

john

John (Crosley)