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Dave was a high ranking merchant banker, who lost everything as a scape goat (the fat cats who caused it are still in the lap of luxury) in a famous Australian banking collapse many years ago. He went from big house, wife and fancy cars, to a kind old man living alone in the bush in a caravan with a rusty old mini for a car, living at the grace of others. He passed away a little while ago, one of the kindest most giving people you would ever meet.

Rest in peace my friend,

We miss you.

Great image, love the feel and mood of the picture. If you wanted to add more emotion / a different feel you could experiment with darkening the clouds.

One comment, is it a little over sharpened?

Keep up the good work!

Good timing! Like the framing of the birds in relation to the people. Would love to see a larger version to have a look at the fine detail.

Good work, thank you for sharing.

perfect crop for an epic style image!

This picture encapsulates a story without needing to show more of the scene in my opinion. Its close which makes it personal, you can see the child is sleeping on newspaper in the gutter. It's a story in its self, as always different angles show different aspects, but this picture tells a chosen story. I believe this is a pure street photo. I choose not to call it documentary as that sounds more harsh, clinical and less emotional. - my opinion only!

Great shot. Black and white is totally appropriate and very beautiful.

 

Incidentally, the child is not wearing rags and is actually sleeping on a blanket, despite the obvious poverty, it would be presumptuous to for us to think this child is not cared for.

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I like what you have done, you have created an old effect with a new camera. I like how this adds an extra dimension and feel to the image. Would love to have seen this on film. You could enhance this effect by making the vignette less regular, it looks a little square right now.

A beautiful image, thank you for sharing... makes me feel quite home sick!

Amazed they can still run these old girls with the power overhead.

Cheers,

Dan

How could I improve this image. Have struggled with loosing saturation

between photoshop and photonet, in CS2 this is a rich image but for this

forum i have had to over saturate and lighten to get a poor representation

of how it should look. Have only used curves, reduced to 800x... pixels

and then lightly used smart sharpen and saved as max quality jpeg to

reduce the jpeg artifacts still apparent in the cloud.

All advice gratefully recived!

Dan

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You caught the decisive moment!

I love how this picture is balanced. Good to see the old rangefinder can still kick bum with the right person driving it! What scanner did you use, does what we see give the film image full credit? (it seems just a little soft)

Cheers,

Dan

Thank you, I just enjoyed watching some videos on YouTube following your comments regarding Henri Cartier-Bresson. This is exactly why I joined Photo net -to learn and explore.

 

Looking through your work, I feel i can see the difference between desaturated colour film / digital, and the shots you have taken using black and white film. All are photographically excellent, but do you feel you loose something not using black and white film, a certain texture?

Cheers,

Dan

Don't know why, but it works for me. There is a kind of geometry to it.

Sharp is always nice, but you caught the moment -a classic irony!

A good capture should inspire emotion in my opinion, this one certainly has!

I like the original as for me the eyes are the focal point. As this has been categorized as "street" I personally think the emotive content and the ability of the picture to tell a story or connect with the viewer is more important than the technical correctness of the picture (as per the classical street photography genera).

I like the way you have orientated this and framed this shot.

Well framed shot, nicely exposed, silhouettes work well with black & white and the title fits. Well done!

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Any comments on how this could be cropped better?

Cheers!

Thanks!

Yes, annoying "no entry" sign got in my way... hmm i wonder if anyone would be looking...!

Thank you very much for your comments, the picture is very soft, and alas the scanner I have is not very good quality, I think the noise you can see is the scan lines. It is a continual source of frustration to me that i cant post on the net my wet processed prints in their full quality.

Cheers,

Dan

Slow shutter, lens wide open and Ilford FP4, just enough light for this intimate moment!

I think the wide angle adds to the feel of this image, what do you think?

I think the crop looks good, chop more off the bottom and it might not balance with the sky.