Critique pls..hope it works..

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-- Travis koh (teckyy@hotmail.com), March 30, 2002

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It didnt work obviously..I was trying to male it CLICKABLE. Can any kind soul pls tell me what HTML quotes to include so I can make this CLICKABLE?

thx..

-- Travis koh (teckyy@hotmail.com), March 30, 2002.


I did it...;)

BusPoster

-- Travis koh (teckyy@hotmail.com), March 30, 2002.


now this is a good environmental portrait. however, i'm a bit torn about the bus ad that provides the title. by cropping out the left 1/4 of the image, you lose the blank white wall above the bus and also the "the men don't get it" ad. onj one hand, it is a cute element in conjunction with the two men. however, the two men, standing alone, with their complimentary poses, also makes for a powerful image. the "caption," in the end, may drag this down to the level of kitsch (not that kitsch is necessarily bad) when the image might aspire to greater things. words in a pic, like a title, become a limiting factor for viewers, imposing a meaning on the image. a title-less shot allows for more accretion of meaning. if you want to retain the words, i suggest in that case cropping some off the left to leave just "men don't get it," which still provides the same meaning, but allows you to exclude the distracting letters from the partial ad that encroaches from the left of the frame. finally, if the entire man (the one waiting(??) for the bus, is on the neg, i don't see why he should be cut in two. if he's not on the neg, blame it on RF composition!!

-- roger michel (michel@tcn.org), March 30, 2002.

You need some more practice. Much too busy. Couldn't look at it for more than a few seconds at a time. You need a human subject or interest (a woman would work well) to go in front of the background sign. Simplify the sign a little too. Nice background, but no subject.

fast eddie

-- edward (leicaphoto@stumps.net), March 30, 2002.


"Found" scenes like this can lend themselves to excellent shots, but one must either have patience to catch an interesting composition, or stage it. One might, for example, give Mr. Poster Man something to look at that fits with his expression - a pretty woman in the foreground, perhaps. Get closer to eliminate confusing background or peripheral elements, so the viewer's attention is controlled by the elements in the image.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), March 30, 2002.


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