Inspired by @dbj and @lxxx I am for the second day in a row using my cell phone for my shot of the day. As I was waiting for the train to come I was taken with the light and lines that were created by the strong back lightning and the silhouettes that it created.Whilst I can see many things that I could improve, I do like this shot and it is somewhere I will revisit and hope to improve on.
Now I am looking at it, I think I should have cropped it tighter on the right, initially I liked the silhouette of the bag to the far right now I am thinking it would be stronger without it, but still not sure.
Taken with my cellphone and edited with snapseed apart from a slight correction of lines in picmonkey because it was not quite straight.
I really like how folks (including you) use their cell phones to maximum advantage. Excellent lines and contrasts. I would have cropped it on the right, to the stairs... but I was missing the person with the handbag on the right, so my initial choice might have been hasty. (As my kids would remark!). I guess, on this one, ladies' choice! :)
@rosiekerr Thanks Rosie, this was one of those where I liked my crop initially but then started to second guess it. The more I look at it...the bag needs to go!
@ukandie1 No perfect solution, that is for sure. Most days, the answer is... the best shot you can do. :) Actually, this is a super shot, regardless of the crop.
Wonderful shot - great tones (good post-pro)! It's like a "film noir" movie still. All characters are frozen, the world stands still.
The cropped version looks great too, maybe better indeed, yet this one with the bag is a nice detail. As Rosie said, no perfect solution - both can be equally good, or nearly.
Watch out!!! You'll get addicted to the cell phone camera! ;-) So light and transportable, so easy to be unobtrusive... :D
I really like this. I'm with @rosiekerr that it is quite a solid image regardless of crop. I've looked at it for a while now and see several possible crops, but I don't feel any one of them is stronger than the other or even the original. One possible crop that really intrigues me is just the right third of the image. Cropping to just the single person under the stairs with the two passing over top. But that crop loses the punch of the rather equidistant silhouettes along the bottom. And cell phone images sometimes can't usually hold up to that extensive cropping, but this one probably could because of the nature of its high contrast... Anyway I rambled, very nice image.
Wonderful shot. I like the bag - I think the bag person balances out the person on the far left, and I like the block of black above the bag person's head. But hey - each to their own of course ;) I love the lines and b&w and processing. I'm also taking some shots on my iPhone here and there these days - partly because I've started posting on Instagram. I'll be needing to give up work soon obviously
I really like the high contrast b&w, with the silhouettes of the lines and people. I would also have cropped it from the right, but it still looks good this way too.
I think the crop is quite good. You have two figures at either end, three in the middle with the two sides mirroring round the middle one and the two large vertical beams at both sides of the frame. I like it.
May 27th, 2015
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The cropped version looks great too, maybe better indeed, yet this one with the bag is a nice detail. As Rosie said, no perfect solution - both can be equally good, or nearly.
I really like this. I'm with @rosiekerr that it is quite a solid image regardless of crop. I've looked at it for a while now and see several possible crops, but I don't feel any one of them is stronger than the other or even the original. One possible crop that really intrigues me is just the right third of the image. Cropping to just the single person under the stairs with the two passing over top. But that crop loses the punch of the rather equidistant silhouettes along the bottom. And cell phone images sometimes can't usually hold up to that extensive cropping, but this one probably could because of the nature of its high contrast... Anyway I rambled, very nice image.