The Black Box

[Nigel Powles]

This is the Black Box where an audience of one sits inside and watches the performance through 3 sliding windows. The rest of the audience watches the performance from outside.

[MattUK]

I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking at here. There's the woman in black, then a couple of guys in costume, then maybe part of a black box cropped off on the right?

The composition is a little busy, I guess

[Nigel Powles]

Thanks for the comment Matt. I agree about it being busy, trying to capture street performance against a cleaner background is difficult. Maybe looking back I should have gone for some closer shots of the actors, but that would have lost the context, or I could have taken a wider view showing the event but that would have lost the faces. I guess I went for a compromise.
Anyone got any tips on this sort of photograhy?

[jimmyosram]

Hi Nigel

If you make your images clickable so we can see a larger version of the photo it's easier to evaluate matey..

I actually like the shot, but two things could have helped here. The crop should be just to the left of the woman, and you should rename the photo. For a re-shoot, I might have tried to have the box as the background. ... hey, but what do i know .... lol

Any more from the series?

[MattUK]

Nigel, you could also try using a wider ap to blur out any people who aren't essential to your scene

[Nigel Powles]

I have done as you suggest Jimmy and agree that a closer crop works, it also retains the context which for me was important. Not sure why you suggest renaming it, that was what the performance was called.
I have also slightly blurred the background as you suggest Matt, I should have thought of the wider AP at the time but got over excited by it all and forgot.
I have as yet not been able to make them clickable but they are in my gallery, struggling with using this site.