The lighting, cropping, motion, and solid blocks of colors combine to make this a tremendous image to view. The image makes me feel like so much is going on, I want to know what is going on outside the frame (are they watching a ball game?), but one thing is certain—the man is enjoying his ice cream.
The motion is the key to this photograph, both where it is—the subject eater’s face, his right hand with spoon, his friend in the background)—and where it isn’t (the ice cream, the subject’s left hand holding box). The focus is crisp where it needs to be—the ice cream (our challenge, after all)—but the remaining aspects of the photograph give it life.
The image is extremely well-cropped; less is so often more in photography, and this is certainly the case here. We don’t need to see the entire person, we don’t need to see what unknowns are going on outside the frame.
The solid blocks in the image—the subject’s grey shirt, his blue jacket, the white shirt of his co-subject, even the dark space in front of him—lend stability to a photograph that features motion. I think this makes the photo more effective. At first view, I was not sure if that dark spot takes away from the photo, but I am inclined to say it does not, as I don’t think there needs to be anything down there to distract from the rest of the image.
Other aspects of the photo complete it to give it life, give it a story. Here’s a man who’s involved doing something, grabbing a box—not a bowl—of ice cream to enjoy while he’s doing it. This could be an effective advertisement for Breyer’s, I believe.
Depth of field is nice on this one. Just the carton of ice cream is in focus. Your really slow shutter speed works for you also. You're getting double images, this is because you're hand holding something at too slow of a shutter speed, BUT… the blurring works for you here. Use levels/curves in PS to brighten up the shot. It's flat.
LOL! This was a happy accident. I was holing the button and was in the continuous shooting setting. And I will play with the curves. I play with the levels already.
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The lighting, cropping, motion, and solid blocks of colors combine to make this a tremendous image to view. The image makes me feel like so much is going on, I want to know what is going on outside the frame (are they watching a ball game?), but one thing is certain—the man is enjoying his ice cream.
The motion is the key to this photograph, both where it is—the subject eater’s face, his right hand with spoon, his friend in the background)—and where it isn’t (the ice cream, the subject’s left hand holding box). The focus is crisp where it needs to be—the ice cream (our challenge, after all)—but the remaining aspects of the photograph give it life.
The image is extremely well-cropped; less is so often more in photography, and this is certainly the case here. We don’t need to see the entire person, we don’t need to see what unknowns are going on outside the frame.
The solid blocks in the image—the subject’s grey shirt, his blue jacket, the white shirt of his co-subject, even the dark space in front of him—lend stability to a photograph that features motion. I think this makes the photo more effective. At first view, I was not sure if that dark spot takes away from the photo, but I am inclined to say it does not, as I don’t think there needs to be anything down there to distract from the rest of the image.
Other aspects of the photo complete it to give it life, give it a story. Here’s a man who’s involved doing something, grabbing a box—not a bowl—of ice cream to enjoy while he’s doing it. This could be an effective advertisement for Breyer’s, I believe.
Depth of field is nice on this one. Just the carton of ice cream is in focus. Your really slow shutter speed works for you also. You're getting double images, this is because you're hand holding something at too slow of a shutter speed, BUT… the blurring works for you here. Use levels/curves in PS to brighten up the shot. It's flat.
ReplyDeleteLOL! This was a happy accident. I was holing the button and was in the continuous shooting setting. And I will play with the curves. I play with the levels already.
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