color -- then and now 'The Smart Phone and the Older Generation'

This well-dressed woman getting along in years and with apparent failing

eyesight struggles with the latest gadget, her new smart phone, as she pokes at

it with her index finger, while bringing it right up to her eyes so she can see it

better. 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

Excellent.  So good. Colors - background, light from phone and garment, hat and flesh so punctuate the impact and theme.  Great work, John. 

Frankly, I could hardly believe my eyes when this woman put this smart phone so close to her eyes that it illuminated her face after first holding it a great distance away, apparently in an attempt to make out the writing/symbols on it.

 

She then, here, began to hunt and peck a message, which I only discovered when I downloaded, and you can even see the lines of text on the smart phone -- and best of all; this is a crop from a hand held zoom telephoto at a very slow shutter speed.

 

It's one of those Trump like deals where 'I nailed it' -- -- look at me, she can't see, and I'm proud of myself for demonstrating that so sell.

 

I try my hardest to post interesting photos -- ones that often are unusual views of ordinary life that we might even see in passing for fear of being 'caught' for staring.

 

I do stare, but in an instance like this, from a great distance-- here across a fast food restaurant (with wi-fi).

 

I like here color and the background, and it worked out that the screen color predominated, emphasized a little in post processing.

 

I also like that it's her index finger pointing and it's straight on, actually poking her new contraption.  For me that is photo bliss.

 

I posted this in an older folder where people seldom look, hoping that by sheer force of being 'good' people might see it, since it didn't do well at all when first shown . . . . but I have my own personal favorites, and this is one.  I felt it belonged among my best color and that's I think where it shall stay.

 

Thanks for helping verify my choice . . . . . I think this one's popularity will grow over time, but we'll see.  One thing we do know; it's not an ordinary, run-of-the mill photo of even a run-of-the mill  Crosley photo.

 

I very much appreciate your taking the time and effort to let me know your thoughts.  

 

john

 

John (Crosley)

I do agree, John.  This is a treasure.

With a long lens, handheld? That elevates this to amazing. Sometimes the "world" gives a gift to those who recognize it and the talent and skills to register it. Congrats, John.

I'm not afraid of out of focus photos from subject movement of personal movement.  I try for 'in focus' but if while trying for an 'in focus' photo I get some throw aways, then that's the price of taking chances, which I do in abundance.

 

Once, before digitial and when I was in my early 20s, for a landscape photo, I backed up to my car in the Sierra with a long lens (135 mm) and zeroed in on a very small waterfall -- just a fast rushing stream dropping a few feet actually -- and attempted to capture it. 

I followed the meter on my Nikon and the exposure on my manual camera worked out to two seconds, which I followed.  

 

I breathed in, and I think even willed my heart to stop, pressed the shutter button and voila, the water was caught rushing, all the detail at the side of the falls and behind was in full focus.  The capture was sharp as can be.  I didn't know if I had caught the shot until a week or so later when I developed the roll, but the roll came back (transparencies) with notes from the dark room workers about 'GREAT SHOTS!' and other congratulations, from the private darkroom at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I used their darkroom staff.

 

I'm just blessed; long ago in my first roll of film my best and first street photo of worth was a fight at 1/15th of a second versus the sudden shuddering of the very Staten Island Ferry.  

 

Like the natural eye some of my street work shows, steady holding is another of the gifts God gave me that I utilize in my photography.

 

Thanks for the compliment.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)