synchronicity Photo

Photographer’s Note

Market Street, 2 ad posters which provided a symbolic meeting of 2 ages of music, blasting together in unison, from (trumpet) mouth to ear.

In retrospect, i wish I had opened the DOF a bit more.

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david (3978) 2006-05-28 1:14

i like the juxtaposition here herve. the trumpet player (louis armstrong??) and the funky ipod ad next to it.

i really like the black and white composition, however i might have cropped the negative space off the bottom of the shot. i don't think your dof is bad ... i like the background being a little blurry!

great shot!

oochappan (22032) 2006-05-28 3:22

Hi Herve
The F/11 is good, you still can read the contrasting IPod sign as contrast, maybe a bit more contrast or here a combi with sepia could be an option. Fine to spot this two world meeting each others thanks to 'Ap..' :)).
greetings Henk

alimo3 (6826) 2006-05-28 15:02

bonsoir herve,
j'aime bien cette idée et cette composition inventive.
il a encore du souffle le bon LOUIS et la fille a du mal a garder l'équilibre ;-)
Bien vu.

Tom

saamb (1004) 2006-05-28 18:33

Herve,
good artwork in b&w. you have created a wonderful picture with this elements. anyway this musician in the poster is very famous, i think! tnx for all
SAAM

russte (0) 2006-05-29 5:36

Hi Herve, very, very well observed and some good B&W tones. I think the limited depth-of-field is fine - it further exaggerates the difference between the iPOD girl and Louis. Stephen

just4iris (792) 2006-05-29 14:54

Beautiful composition, good B&W work, intersting
music contrast!

daniela

marietom (32076) 2006-05-30 13:54

superbe composition !
Marie

Jeweller (4) 2006-06-08 21:11

Great shot Herve. Well seen.

Porteplume (3257) 2006-07-03 13:56

Bonjour Hervé,
I had one of my favourite song by Nougaro right in my mind after recognizing Armstrong. :o)
I quite like these pictures, mostly taken in cities, where the big publicity boards and the reflections in huge shop windows are mixing so well.
I saw it often in Sarolta's, Gal's and a couple of others and I'm always amazed how you all succeed in creating a fancy fantasy image in the quite dull daily world... Bravo, it's very well done, also including a juxtaposition of the two generations involved.
Amicalement - Viviane

colinbrenchley (6133) 2006-08-06 5:10

Herve
Good image comparing between a musical instrument from one era and the iPod form a more modern age. B&W adds to age the shot and add atmosphere.
Regards Colin

ALSOM (6616) 2006-09-07 6:34

Très belle cette composition à la volée.
Amstrong qui fait swinger en live les jeunes .. à moins que ce soit les jeunes qui l'écoutent avec leur iPod.
Merci, Alain -

entrelec (8342) 2006-09-17 1:57

Belle juxtaposition, en espérant qu' Amstrong fréquente les i pod...
Bonne journée

Joel

hamster (1045) 2006-11-16 17:52

That's very interesting shot. Music and dance in divided frame. Good idea.

Regards,
Grzegorz

Kenggaroo (807) 2007-04-13 2:54

A nice contrast of age, Herve
Like a clever meaning behind this shot. A contrast of age made an controversy topics.
Acoustic vs Electronic,
Improvisation vs Programming,
Manual vs Automatic
The choice is yours.
But anyway, the shot is very well present in B&W image.
Interesting shot.
kenggaroo

rafid76 (2611) 2007-09-05 13:44

great double shot. Louis is definatly one of the great ones, and he represents a time in complete contrast with the ipod revolution.

paprika-jancsi (1959) 2007-09-06 10:34