angus_bromide

Has a gritty noir element to it.

Nice serpentine flow to the composition. Makes the eye want to move with the image.

Is it just my imagination, or are all the "Critique" photos that show up on the front page for the past several days Black & White?

As one who has burned more film on skyscapes than a reasonable man might find prudent, I like it. My life is at this point in time in hell, and this image took my mind off it for the briefest of moments, for which I am grateful.

Is that a chicken in his crate or is he just happy to have the bottle?

And Subways- I used to take the Subways from the thirties downtown at the time that the local Deaf Children's School let out. The subway car would be populated with all these silent children excitedly pushing and signing to each other. Another great photo op left in memory only!

Ever see the guy with no legs who scooted down the subway cars on a tiny home-made rig? Seemed like I saw him at least once a week (proving that I was wrong when I said I never saw the same person twice!)

Hmm, I was pretty sure I'd rated this, but maybe I didn't. Well, I did now.

 

I saw your message in my thread on evaporating threads that just evaporated. (The system sent me the thread when it evaporated, somehow I didn't see your post prior to that, even though I tried to mark it to send me updates.)

 

Do you think that store I was thinking of was "Camera Barn"? It popped into my mind in a convoluted way -- I was thinking about what I might do with my barn (a big red barn perhaps a century old), and I thought hmmm, I could finish off the interior and put in a classic (used) camera shop (the dog returneth to his vomit), and the obvious name for it seemed to be "Camera Barn", but as soon as I thought that name, I remembered hearing it somewhere else. After cogitating for a couple of minutes, I recalled this thread, and said Ahah! -- and then tried to *find* the thread so that I could post my recollection.

Very nice work. Good eye for quality optics too; the 200/4 Takumar is a beautiful, compact, top notch optic, overlooked by many who swoon to the siren call of the consumer zoom.

Gotta love those oft neglected "entry level" normal lenses from the Golden Age. They have amazing resolution, beautiful contrast, do remarkable work, and sell for peanuts!

 

BTW you've got a fantastic eye for composition and color.

Nope, different store, the one I'm remembering was across from Macy's (or was it Gimbal's?), a ground floor storefront. I remember walking in, and being near the counters (on my left), with the store's "showroom" (it was more like the "Pushcart" store if you remember that) spreading off to the right. I'm pretty sure I remember a Stetson Hats store being a door or two down (or up) from the camera store.

 

As to the odds of running into someone you know, I can't recall a single time I ran into anyone I knew while riding the subway, for that matter I don't think I ever saw the same face twice on the trains. Amazing number of people crammed into a few square miles, boggles the mind.

I like the pastel tonality. It's not easy to accomplish, it's catch as catch can when you find it. (I run outside like a madman when I look out my window at the field outside and see fog or haze.)

 

Nice to see a change from the typically brutal colors that digital cameras tend to create.

What was the name of that camera store on the East side of the street (it was maybe a block or so north of where Olden's was), it was near a Stetson Hat store as I recall. It was like one big junkshop. I thought I could remember the name and now I can't. Getting old stinks...

Very blurry. The way that everything seems to be equally out of focus, I suspect that either the machine that made the print was out of focus, or the scanner that scanned it in was out of focus (or if the negative was directly scanned, same thing, the scanner isn't in focus).

If the print is sharp, is it possible to get another scan? (Or if scanned from the neg, can you find another scanner and give it another shot?)

What lens? I'd guess a 24 or 28?

Remarkable composition, looks three dimensional even if I close one eye. (Try it!)

 

The colors look compressed, though, almost posterized. I counted something like 18 discrete colors (by eye) including the red box on the building and the black fence. I'd be interested in seeing how a traditional film would handle that scene.

Nice work.

One thing I've learned living at the Eastern edge of a farm field that rises to a ridge at the West is that when you seen "good clouds" at the end of the day, drop everything, grab the ol' camera, and snap some chromes.

 

Good clouds don't happen every day. Catch them when you can.