It's an image with strong tonal values and a pleasant lustre - at first glance it has the magical pop factor.
But my eyes are drawn to the lack of focus on the woman behind and for me it detracts a little; had she been in focus too the image would probably speak more because she's the center of the composition. I also look for some contextual reference in the image, but can't find it.
So what the viewer is left with is a hip shot of two women in a queue, probably made quickly without direct intent. And it's a little too loose because of it - whatever the magical moment might have been didn't quite make it through to the picture. In compositional terms it has a nice graphic quality but there's no narrative substance.
I know how it goes as I shoot street myself, and I've got a few thousand frames like this one. As someone once told me - 'shooting street is painful. So many frames, so few photographs'. For me it's a close miss.
This is a lovely shot. Difficult to find much wrong with it; if I had to be really tough then perhaps it's a little dark in the top right corner? But a captivating portrait all the same.
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It's an image with strong tonal values and a pleasant lustre - at first glance it has the magical pop factor.
But my eyes are drawn to the lack of focus on the woman behind and for me it detracts a little; had she been in focus too the image would probably speak more because she's the center of the composition. I also look for some contextual reference in the image, but can't find it.
So what the viewer is left with is a hip shot of two women in a queue, probably made quickly without direct intent. And it's a little too loose because of it - whatever the magical moment might have been didn't quite make it through to the picture. In compositional terms it has a nice graphic quality but there's no narrative substance.
I know how it goes as I shoot street myself, and I've got a few thousand frames like this one. As someone once told me - 'shooting street is painful. So many frames, so few photographs'. For me it's a close miss.