Politics: One Man's View (Color Ed.)

While other Ukrainians show their political affiliations with party

flags, this man shows his skepticism at the whole process during

recent political turmoil. Your ratings and critiques are invited and

most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please submit

a helpful and constructive commentary; please share your superior

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

Great capture!...The moment....ie.....the crowd, the flags, the weather and this man's face. I haven't looked in your portfolio yet, have you tried in B&W?

 

Great work as always!

 

bryan

As in almost all my captures, I am sure this will do well in B&W, but the flags are red and there is no problem of conflicting colors, so I posted it in colors -- in other words, the lighting is not mixed, with one part of a face showing yellow and another blue -- so I indulged with a color posting.

 

I will consider desaturating as it will surely show well also, but now that I've posted it, it's unlikely it will ever be posted here twice, but you might look 'elsewhere', if you know what I mean (to another service one of these days).

 

Thanks for the compliment. I shot over 1,000 photos that night to get just a few good ones.

 

John (Crosley)

Red flags, cloudy gray sky that takes up a big portion in the fram, black crowds, and bam! his face! Without his face the picture would look dull and odd...Colour pic is the right choice here, at least to my taste.

Without this man's face, this photo would have no reason to be posted; it's a visual joke in some ways -- his expression is 'priceless'.

 

Yes, I agree, that color was the preferred mode of expression for this, but it also will work well in black and white, just because of the composition -0- his face contrasted to the flag-waving crowd in the background. Try desaturating it yourself and you'll see, it's pretty good, but just not 'as good'.

 

I could have worked on the sky, I suppose, but I believe in minimal work on my captures -- there are photographers here for whom the sky would have ended up twisted, dark and brooding, and very prominent.

 

Not me, so far.

 

With a HDR sensor (high dynamic range) sensor camera I might have had another choice, but those aren't out yet -- they're coming, though, I'm sure.

 

Thanks for your comment and endorsement.

 

John (Crosley)

great expression.

 

 

Thanks,

 

I caught a moment, didn't I?

 

John (Crosley)

a great moment,the face of the man is monumental.

It has been well noted that I often deal in contrasts.

 

This is just another variation -- the claque of the crowd, then this lone gentleman expressing his 'opinion' of the day/evening's events, with a quiet look.

 

Glad you noticed and commented.

 

John (Crosley)

I do like the mans face but I like it beccause of the deep sorrow. I like it also because everyone is turned away. I'm sure he was looking towards you partly because you were "out of the ordinary" and partly because he wished he didn't have to be there.

 

 

Black and White surely will be nice/I'll desaturate it but not post it on this service -- I seldom post anything but a surefire winner in color and B&W and I've only done it twice or three times total in almost 900 photos.

 

If I apply shadow/highlight filter, the sky probably would look much more menacing and I probably should have done that, to bring down the 'highlight' of the sky -- and I may do that and alter the posting (and save the original as an 'addendum' to a comment - we'll see what comes of that).

 

Is he 'sorrowful'? Who knows -- this is just a look of one moment, but he certainly does look forlorn or sorrowful or dejected or something, doesn't he?

 

I took a lot of photos that afternoon and evening -- most of them rejects, but the winners were standouts in my book. This is a case where I may be a better photo editor than photographer (but that was my profession at one time, so I better be accomplished at it, but then I was chosen to be a photo editor because I was an accomplished photographer - a chicken and egg sort of deal . . . . )

 

;-))

 

Thanks for commenting.

 

John (Crosley)

This photo has been desaturated, lightened just a little on the man's face and others, and it has been posted as a Black and White capture in my 'B & W From Then to Now' folder.

 

If you want to compare the two, you might have a look at that.

 

John (Crosley)