...walking along...

...critique is very welcomed...

This is an amazing shoot . EXCELLENT

terrific shot!!

...thank's to all for your positive reports...

Nice one! Result of patience?

 

Regards...

This is brilliant. Fantastic scene and excellent composition. My only suggestion would be to use a slightly more provocative title... Something which describes or suggests what's taking place here. Anyway, you still get a 6/6 from me!

Wow. Super!

Top class shot; was the lone walker under your direction?

From the thumbnail I sensed a loner in the foreground, however, the larger image gives me the feeling that she is walking towards the crowd, to join them.

As much as I like this image, I would change a couple of things : crop out the sky so the eyes don't try to flee the scene, and darken the midtones which have a digital grey feel to them.

Nice work; very well done.

...thank you very much Seven, you're partially right...I'll take your remarks into account.

This is one damn good, fantastic work of art. Splendid. I am overwhelmed.

well done, great moment

No critiques. 7/7.

simply, a timeless shot

WOW!!!!!!!!!! perfect!

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Vad I like your minimalism view. This case is an exceptional good setup of it. I've just wonder if you sent the model.. regards

Vad, I really like the photo, the control of empty space, and the contrast between the many and the one.

What, me first again? Great photograph. Thought provoking -- I want to know more about what is happening here. This is one of the most unusual presentations I have seen on POW. Is she coming upon a parade? Is she following one? I thought at first she must be on a bridge and therefore no parking, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

I would crop the right edge off the photo to eliminate the shiny drain or manhole along the edge which keeps attracting my eye and distracting my full attention. I guess it could be burned in a little too.

 

I note your portfolio contains several images of lonliness such as this, with one single lone person. I think it tells a lot about you as a photographer.

 

Very nice work. I commend you and congratulations on being chosen.

 

Willie the Cropper

Very impressive, excellent shot.

 

I had a tendancy to agree with Seven, at first. We become accustumed to high contrast and colour saturation. Upon considering the photo a bit more, I think the grey tones in the background are good the way they are. We have the variations in the tones in the foreground and on the girl to make her 'pop' off the page and the background therefore becomes secondary, and fades to grey and out with the bit of sky. I say, keep the sky also.

 

Perhaps the grey background to the photo adds to the overall grey feeling too. It might look different on a totally black background, or a white one.

Interesting and original composition. I'd agree with Seven above comment suggesting a sky crop; I too find the upper part of the picture a bit distracting.

An even more radical crop (at the base of the white building at the end of the road) would reinforce the feeling of loneliness, confinement and claustrophobia...

Nice job, I like the tone and the whole photo is beautiful. DDD

I would like to contribute a short story which conseals behind this picture, just to settle all doubts ). But first of all I want to thank all of you guys for your remarks and reports.

This shot was made with my first digital camera Panasonic FZ20 during the festival in Kiev. This is the road which goes down the hill from the center of my hometown Kiev to the most ancient district of the city called Podol. The traffic is usually blocked during these kind of selebrations so that the crowd could walk free. Nevertheless there still were many people strolling up and down the road. But at that single moment luckily all of the sudden the road was clear. 5 shots just to catch the proper phase of the movement and afterwards - no chance. The road was overcrowded - people were coming from the end of show. There was even neither chance nor time to struggle with DOF. But all in all I'm happy to be the one to capture this shot. The girl on the picture is my whife, but used to be a girlfriend at that moment )

Once again thank you for your attention!

I'm not always sure whether an explanation of what went on behind the scenes is a good thing or not. Sometimes the story can be even more intriguing than the image, other times the story takes away all that mystified us in the first place.

 

The explanation by Vad did two things: first, it eliminated any further debate about who the girl is, what she is doing, thinking and experiencing, and where she is going. But, and secondly, something else happened. The loneliness crept in again, but from an unsuspected angle. And I realised: It must be lonely to be the eternal photographer?s wife, always sent ahead or left behind, for the artist to get the shot.

 

I suppose this image can be dedicated to all the men and women out there who live with and share the lives of people who make photos.

 

JH

Very nice. The solitary figure is in just the right place and the body is in just the right phase of movement to convey the 'story' and appear elegant as well. There is just enough contrast, and the perspective is right. I'd like to imagine this was a glimpse of 'real life' and wasn't posed (I know this is a contentious issue!), but either way it's excellent. Congrats. and best wishes.

First thing that strikes me is the slim frame that matches well with the slim figure of the model. In my eyes her long figure seems to dominate the photograph. And the more fragile she looks the more dramatic the result when you put her "against" the crowd. I really like this photograph