Kissing, Quebec City, 1989 (scan from Ciba print)

a very old picture, taken on Kodachrome 64 slide film, printed on Ciba

and eventually scanned. comments welcome, as always.

Great capture, Marco! Perfect timing and light. I would only crop it a bit at the top, all those shadows are distracting. Sorry if I always suggest to crop your photos, but in this case I really think it would improve :-) Anyway, excellent black and white, keep on posting your old stuff!

Bel colpo d'occhio, hai fissato un attimo ed ambientato la coppia in un paesaggio urbano scandito da linee. Concordo per il taglio in alto, subito sopra al lampione a destra, che eliminerebbe elementi di disturbo.

 

Ciao. Barbara

Hi Marco

 

Your composition and your grey tones are out of this world. This is art. Classic photografy at its best.

 

Tommy

Marco,

 

you know how squeamish I get about cropping pictures. I remember an interview with Sebastiao Salgado stating "nao corta o negativo!". But since I'm not Salgado, it is definitely better if I do crop my pictures more often, especially when you advise me to do so. Honest, I have already made huge progress on this matter. This is however a particularly difficult case, as it has been hung on my kitchen wall for about 12 years and I'm very accustomed to see it as such. Ok,12 years ago cropping meant using scissors and not Photoshop or Lightroom... As a sign of trust as soon as I'll have my pc back I will try some cropping, in the meanwhile if you want to have a go, please do!

 

Barbara,

 

grazie per l'apprezzamento, vedo spesso il tuo portfolio e so quanto il tuo occhio sia "adestrato" e quanto valga la tua valutazione. come ho scritto a Marco, con cui per tradizione comunichiamo in inglese, devo abituarmi a croppare di più le immagini. nel caso specifico, questa immagine compie tra poco 20 anni di cui 12 passati appesa in cucina, e mi sono talmente abituato a vederla così che mi è un po' disagevole tagliarla. però adesso che posso farlo senza forbici ma con lightroom, seguirò il vostro consiglio! se nel frattempo vuoi provare a cropparla tu, non mi offendo, anzi!

 

Tommy

 

thank you vey much for your appreciation! as far as grey tones are concerned they came out of sheer luck. The original is a colour slide with almost no colour, printed on ciba paper, then scanned as a colour document and eventually turned to b/w on PS. So I have to admit that almost no idea of the final result, but I'm very glad you like it

Marco, Barbara,

 

era questo che intendevate, vero? si accettano altrenative ed ulteriori suggerimenti.

Marco