Street Scenes

[karenoliver]

Woman with tattoos to arm.



Dining in style!



Woman with dog



Waiting for the parade



Boy looking at tattoo



Karen

[Stormsong]

Woman with Dog is superb! Great lighting and atmosphere. Worthy of a poster print. I would have cropped just a bit off the top and right hand side, but that's my preference.

Regards,
Denise

[Reinardina]

Originally Posted by Stormsong

Woman with Dog is superb! Great lighting and atmosphere. Worthy of a poster print. I would have cropped just a bit off the top and right hand side, but that's my preference.

Regards,
Denise

Totally agree with Denise: superb shot!

[Cathus]

some varied images, processing-wise, I like the colour treatment on one & two, and the way the guy is posing with his flag while others look on.

I'm going to disagree with the last two posters regarding the woman & dog. I think it's a well spotted image & the stark processing of the actual subject works well, I just don't think it hangs together as a total image because the black is so pervading. It looks like an impossible setup, the woman supporting a chair with just her legs & a seat hanging in mid air; the seat has no context as it hangs in space.
Also there are some processing issues around the front of the woman's legs & the dog's fur - the black is sharp round the back of the image yet fuzzy around the front.
I think the image would probably stand on it's own feet without the black, or at least with a gradual fade out of detail to black.

[karenoliver]

Thanks for the feedback everyone :-)

Interesting to see opinion split on the old lady with the dog. It probably is dominated too much by the the black colour, it was just an experiment really to isolate her from the very cluttered background it originally was part of. I wish I could find the original but its vanished along with other photos to somewhere in the dark recesses of my hard drives :-)

Karen

[PolaroidSky]

Karen, woman with dog... fantastic shot. If I were judging POTY that would be in my top 3 any and every year. A great composition, un-staged with a real flow to it and a wonderful sense of many happenings, feelings in one natural frame. Only minor critique would be the exposure (or it might be the post processing?) has lead to some blown highlights.

SUCH a shame you lost the original - I feel for you, I lost 3 years worth of shots no so long ago, now I back up and keep every RAW I shoot, twice

[karenoliver]

Thanks very much, Jim :-)

The processing needs to be redone I agree. I haven't totally the lost the shot, its here just I've no idea where. My system is erratic really, I have about 5 HDs, 3 inside the computer and 2 external and my photos are all over the place. Folders within folders, within folders lol. My teachers in college call me the most prolific, and passionate yet most frustrating student they've ever met lol

Karen

[PolaroidSky]

Haha! I bet they do!

If you find it - mail me it - I'd love a go at rendering it for you

[OldBoy]

Cracking series of shots Karen. Love the people on the bench, as I think they spotted you, but look like they are enjoying the attention.

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by OldBoy

Cracking series of shots Karen. Love the people on the bench, as I think they spotted you, but look like they are enjoying the attention.

Yeah they spotted me photographing something else then the guy with the flag shouted me to take theirs. I ended up talking to him for about half an hour and almost missed the soldiers parading past saluting the mayor! :-)

Karen