Did You See THAT Guy Over There?**

'Did You See That GUY Over There?' is submitted as a 'street photo'

despite being taken at a concert because, in essence, (in my mind)

it is a 'street photo' with 'street photo' elements. Plus it was

taken at a concert in a Ukraine city center, in the middle of a

downtown street, the second of two back-to-back free rock/punk

concerts held on two weekend days this weekend. Your ratings and

critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very

critically, please submit a helpful and constructive comment/Please

share your superior photographic knowledge to help improve my

photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

Nice photograph very expressive 6/6

This is a bit of photographic legerdemain -- picking a subject out of a crowd, focusing on 'where he's supposed to pop up' them 'waiting for him to pop up' with such an expression and then taking a photo of him each time. I took about six of him thusly, and this was what I felt was the best.

 

I motioned for him to come over and look at them and he was most amused; and will be looking for their being posted -- I told him one to three months, but I was most amused by this expression and am not waiting so long as I often do.

 

This again is a different style for me -- just another one of my 'bag of tricks' as you can see.

 

And yet again, it's the one with the least amount of subjects 'in focus' of all the postings I've made so far as I can recall, yet it clearly makes a point and before some 3/3 marked in, it was scoring roughly 5/5, not bad for a B&W on a 'saturated color site' and for a street photo where almost everything's blurry, except the subject, and a nighttime subject at that (well after sunset at least -- twilight).

 

I loved taking this photo and the similar ones, and chose this one because his open mouth mirrored the open mouth of the blurry subject, far left, nearest the camera. ;-))

 

I just love taking such photos.

 

I am glad you liked it; I surely loved taking it; he loved it; several bystanders did (they're often best critics I find; and even the finicky saturated sunset crowd is not rebelling.

 

That's affirmation in my book for such an unusual photo.

 

John (Crosley)

Ohhh, this one is excellent John!!! I lOVE it!! The expression of the one that matters is almost as important as the one in the front.. Overall it gives me a party-mood. ʹ's like they're flying on extacy, hihi.... Really great capture!

The point of this photo is the expression of the guy, right, of course, and also the technique -- to isolate a subject in a crowd using selective focus.

 

For of all the photos I've posted, this is the one in which the in-focus portion has the smallest percentage of the frame of any of them, and yet, again, the celebrating, rocking guy, right, mirrors, the out of focus guy, left, for a capture that the guy, right, just loved (I called him over and showed it to him -- actually several similar captures, each time his head became visible with that expreession -- he was overjoyed).

 

Thanks for the comment, Bianca.

 

John (Crosley)