Via dei Giubbonari - Rome 2009

Thank you for your comments, critiques and suggestions, G.

Look like a nice character. Interesting point of view and very nice B&W processing. Regards, Jean-Marc

I do like the point of view and the expression on her face gives the feeling of fragile determination and loneliness alienation.

Thank you / janis Lukas

An amazing street capture. Her expression, her pose it all shows really 'a character'.

thank you for your appreciation. Ah, that moment, the magic moment when you're silently walkin' while casting glances here and there and then the indescribable happens. It's a sudden shivering and a click. Everything fits (or - at least - you, your eye, your mind or whatever it is think so!). In these occasions technical quality suffers beyond the limits of any decent post production, but there remains a small, bright sparkle of the street life. Thank you for your comments and ratings, ciao, Giuseppe

Modella molto interessante, e fotografo di gran classe. Complimenti!

 

A Roman matron in all her imperial splendor; like the Dowager Empress, she seems to own the street.

Ancora uno scatto caratterizzato da forte originalità, ottimamente realizzato, bella foto Giuseppe!

thanks for the comments and ratings. This shot is one of the first I will include in a gallery dedicated to People. Hope you'll like also the rest, thanks again, Giuseppe.

A "Prima Donna".

Even if she was not one; your photograph turned her into it now!

if severe and austere she seems rather a small woman, and getting down on your knees, paying her homage as it were, you rendered her grandiose in the frame. Your intuition is running on all cylinders Giuseppe - this is a terrific personage photographed exactly as she should be.

Hola Giuseppe.

 

This shot is absolutely unique, she seams to be looking to the infinite, the frame is excelent.

 

Thanks for this very nice shot.

 

Abrazos.

a big thank you for your appreciation. Rome is a theatre where everything can happen. The only thing you need to do is walk and watch. Sometimes people they fall in love with their camera and forget the world behind those marvellous mechanisms of metal, glass and rubber :-) Ciao, Giuseppe

Molto bella Giuseppe, abiti in una splendida città! Grazie per le tue visite al mio portfolio. Hai mai visto il mio sito web? " http://web.mac.com/dareantonio". A presto

grazie per il bel commento. La Città è splendida, davvero, ed è molto molto difficile uscire dai luoghi comuni quando si ha l'occhio dietro la macchina! Ho visitato la tua pagina e trovato quello che già immaginavo: splendidi lavori. Con grande stima per il tuo occhio, ciao, Giuseppe

Great shot. I love the angle... The lady reminds me of some great characters of Fellini's movies.

. . . "The only thing you need to do is walk and watch". . . - true enough, any city, anywhere, offer countless opportunities for voyeurs/photographers. But if what you watch is poorly framed, if the image doesn't show what you've 'seen', the viewer doesn't get it and the image fails. C Bresson was a great walker btw, as I’m sure you are. I read somewhere he walked for days on end...;-).

Sure you gotta be an attentive, ever the empathetic watcher, but mostly, and what you didn't mention and what stands out looking at your picture - what more than all else really matters in any photograph is how it is framed. Here the woman is a phenomenal character for sure, but the visual ‘respect’ you granted her, how you framed her, makes her instantly recognizable.

Teresayou are right: this lady has something Fellinian. Rome itself is Fellinian, these days more than ever ...;

Carlos, walk and watch ... yes, I walk very much, and lately I have abandoned my zoom lens for a fixed 35 mm (or 50 mm dependin on the circumstances) in order to be obliged to move around my subjects. Photography is movement ! HCB danced (literally) with his Leicas in the streets, I humbly walk;-) Your comment about framing makes me happy, because it's a difficult part of the craft, and I strongly like framing and composing (more than exploring tones and light nuances).

Thanks so much, Giuseppe

Excellent picture!

My best regards to you! :)

Ciao!

Fantastic picture Giuseppe! All the best, Mark.