This ended up being one of my favorite shots from my trip to the aquarium with @taffy yesterday.
When I started this project I would never have posted this shot, as I believed grain was ugly and wanted everything to be sharp! Some people will still think that, and that is ok, we all see beauty in different things!
I learning to shake the everything must be sharp bug but I do find it difficult at times. This is great love the movement of the kids they really look like there having fun :) fav
@rjb71 Thanks Richard...there is definitely a time and place when you want everything sharp, and it took me a long time to get out of the need for that all of the time.
@taffy I keep coming back to your comment. I had great difficulty with titling this shot. The shot shows the mum ignoring her kids and what looks to be her taking a selfie, but as we both know that was not the case she was very engaged with her daughter, I am not sure if the little boy was with them. It has really got me thinking about how street photography can record a moment in time, but that moment might not be what we think it is!
A lot going on in this shot. The lights in the tank seem to be searching out each fish as if targeting each creature there. The kids look like they are melting into the glass or being dissolved into the water. Mum could be taking a selfie or a video of the environment or checking her height above sea level. Complex scene with loads of interpretations.
Your commentary for this did get me thinking. When I was into developing my own negatives and prints I bought an enlarger. Then I was so taken by Ansel Adams' work I started following a man named Fred Picker who was promoting Adams' Zone System. He sold what is called a cold head enlarger. The bulbs in there were florescent. The florescent light gave a much smoother print while the regular incandescent bulb made prints grainy. I wanted to buy a cold head so bad. But later I saw that there is a place for grain in some photographs.
