documentaries The birthplace of the revolution in USSR

key 2 in your work - to me - is the extreme attention to details, and the accurate use of depth of field to describe concepts, images, memories... the image works extremely well becouse of the finger pointing (a belt?) to something reminiscent the former URSS state, but the key of the image is out of focus, and is the old style ship... and it is right to have it out of focus, becouse we are talking abt memories, of something gone. To me this is great concept and image.

Yes Giuseppe, that is an USSR Navy belt in the foreground and the revolution is definitely gone now. But many people are still nostalgic and proud of it as usual. Regarding to my liking of geometry and use of depth of field: I have a favorite lens, the one I would never part of it and the one which never let me down even after dropping it, it is a Nikkor 24mm t2.8 manual focus lens, about thirty years old. I just love it! Because of the nature of the wide angle lenses it is very easy to extend perspectives or use foreground elements with this lens. Wide open it has a beautiful shallow depth of field, or when you close it down it is sharp from 0.5 meter to infinity. You can shoot into the sun with it, between t8 and t22 it produces a fantastic looking flare. This lens opens up endless possibilities to play with geometry, landscape or even still life. Why I like shallow focus? Because it is natural. That is the way how the human eyes see things, we don't notice it since our brain constantly correct /pull focus/ to the subjects of our attention and lets the rest to drop of. The general concept is; the sharper is the entire image it feels "nicer" to the viewer. Well, seeing everything in the center of the attention often very confusing and produces a busy image without real attention to the important subject. Cheers, Laszlo

that's a *fine* lens... i also have my preferencies when it comes to lenses, for 90% of the time i am using a sigma 24-70 f2.8 which is a good compromise between wide angle ability, image quality, flexibility - you can go from panoramic to portraiture with just one 2.8 lens - and *not less* price.

 

The other lens is a nikkor 135mm f2.8 full manual, this too 20 years old, gift from an old photographer pal, which is my choice for any kind of portraiture, but i used it also to make fine architectural details

 

about shallow focus... i agree with you, with a twist: eyes focuses only on bit of image at a time and jump here and there to read it, when we shoot a photograph we have the choice to *force* them to jump more on an area of the photograph, generally the most focused one... so we can enforce messages that in real life dont get through. Also eyes scan out of focus areas, and brain gets background from that view, so we can force brain to contestualize a detail.

 

what above is both the strong and the weak point of shallow focus images... they can helps to concentrate to a subject and place it into a background story (good), it requires an attentive choice of subject and background to make this work (good but difficult for us photographers), it also require a sharp mind on the other side to get the story (bad, becouse this time the all-sharp geeks are the majority).

the blurred shape of the battle ship in the harbor and the distant era of the revolution. the belt buckle is a nice symbol for the true birthplace of the revolution - in men's souls. great geometry and symbolism.

Thank you for your rating and critique.

I think this is quite interesting, somehow funny. Is that the Potemking cruiser in the background?

Sorry it is not the Potemkin, it is the Aurora cruiser. According to historians the first gunshot of the Aurora, aimed to the car's winter pallace, signaled the uprising. Laszlo

Yeah, the Aurora... you're right, my memory had a smalle lapse!

this is an excellent composition.very creative and original congrats.

Very good compostion, lines of the Aurora and the stone wall leading eyes to the main object with the a final touch of the gloves. Very nice Laszlo - szia Csaba

Well. Everybody thinking about the Potomkin, because the famous movie. But history is not so strong with many of us. Yes. The Aurora with a gun shot, and after that, the Gulag, and so many other thing. A revolution is gone. The ones whom invented is dead, or the New Czars to day. The average peoples life get better?? Very god image, with excellent composition.

 

Cheers; Bela

Ez ma mar tortenelem Laci !

Mikor is keszult : 1970-ben ? Praktikaval csak ugy seta kozben ,eszevetlenul..