color -- then and now 'The Notice' and 'The Workers'

Some 'street' shots work best when desaturated, but a few seem at

their best when kept in their original colors; I judge this is one. 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

Open :-) Well seen & good colors! Congratulations!

I think you'll agree, this is best presented as a color capture, right?

 

Thanks again.

 

John (Crosley)

I agree that this works as a colour capture with the contrasting colours displayed. I think this was taken in a very bright day, with the glare that is so evident. What I like best is the banner that makes the photo...not sure what they are serving in there...Wishes.

Without the banner to counterbalance the 'weight' of the auto workers, this wouldn't have been much of a photo, I think. I stood there a long time just to get an appealing arrangement of these guys together, rather than some dissociative look, say, where one guy is looking one way, another, another way and a third drinking a soda, or some such.

It pays to be alert and patient some times.

 

Other times, I can 'see', frame, and shoot within seconds then it's all over and the appealing arrangement disappears.

 

Here I had to wait a considerable time just for these guys to come together to make a passable photo.

 

Thanks for the comment.

 

John (Crosley)

The word, "desaturated" (above) I see often on photo.net but I do not know its meaning. Perhaps conversion to BW? HDR is another one of these mysteries to me

to he who reads his e-mail.

 

John (Crosley)

Yes - John - the color is a must, even though it would work also BW I think - but as the colors do 'add' you should keep them.

 

If I had seen this only in BW I would have loved it also. But this colors add.

 

Regards Axel

 

I didn't desaturate this, so my reply is conjecture, but I never saw this as holding its own as a B&W capture.

 

To my mind, it always was strictly a color capture or 'deep six' it - send it to a hard drive to languish.

 

Perhaps for eternity.

 

I'm glad you think more highly of its composition, as B&W is more dependent on composition than color - but true color 'street' work is much more rare, than good B&W work, as it is hard to 'color coordiante' a street shot, I think. Cartier-Bresson was so frustrated at trying to do so, he tried to destroy his work, even in the hands of others,as I've written based on a story told by the editor of French 'Photo' magazine after Cartier-Bresson's death.

 

Best to you Axel, and thanks for your contribution - I'll try to rethink my feelings about this as a B&W capture and maybe if I see the original try desaturating it.

 

John (Crosley)