ber1

"I am still trying to discover the difference between Street

Photography and Urban Lansdcape Photography."

The way I see it, Street Photography is more about urban/street

life and culture, it's not only the formal outside shape of things

and creatures, but a portrait, an insight. You don't have to show

people in your picture, even not a street but you may still be

doing SP. Just a thought.

Webster's says both forms are ok (at least in the U.S.A; they have

a few English speakers there, I heard). Sometimes arrogance

and ignorance live happily together. Anyway the original is "lens",

f. which means lentil in latin. Pax vobiscum

Hi Erick

"I downsized the D200 RAW image to fit the D100 size. I also

applied one step more than moderate sharpen and a 88%

sharpen mask - 1.3 - 1 to both images. "

Sorry, but shouldn't you enlarge the d100 image to the size of the

d200 image, so you don't lose detail inside the d200 sample? It

seems to me that if you downsize the bigger d200 pic, you lose

small detail, which is one of the main advantages of having

more resolution.

Ber

It's a known fact in art history: when a mature technology is replaced by a newer, usually cheaper one, the older technology becomes "art".

Woodcut, etching, lithography were once commercial printing technologies. Now they are art media. Usually the first thing that the new technology tries to do is to prove that it can do just the same things the older one could, because people are used to it, etc, instead of showing its own advantages.

But all these are just "media" and to me art lies somewhere else.

The frame is too busy, too many points of attention. I feel that using a shallower dof you could have concentrated on the relationship between the little boy's face and the machines, and get rid of the upper third of the picture which only disturbs the main theme (imho) and is totally irrelevant. Cropping above the boy's head might also help.

Ber