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leiju (1683) 2007-07-08 1:16

I simply love the sharpness of the man. It works marvels against a BG that seems to melt into a mess of grey. Truly lovely.

However I am not quite convinced of the centring you chose for him. I don't mind the fact that he is in the horizontal centre of the image, but I would have panned upwards to push him closer to the edge of the image and to get a bit more of the BG in the higher distance.
The other option, that I believe would have worked very well as well, would have been to take a vertical approach to include his faint reflection on the wet pavement. I think it would have added to this grey mood brilliantly all the while you would have been able to keep quite a bit of the context in the image.

Had I not already spent my 2 WS limit for the day, I would have proposed a more panoramic WS of the image: crop a bit from the bottom to focus more on the man and the contrast between him and the BG.

All in all, a great posture well captured ;-)
TFS !
All the best,
Julia

p.s. how is Japan ? I'm heading there in less than a week ;-)

CaptainJack (0) 2007-07-10 20:16

Hi Mike, this whole me-against-the-world feeling you've captured here strikes a cord with me, as that man there was me just a few years ago in the very same city so I can feel sense his feelings very strongly. I guess that personal tie I have to it makes me think this central location of the man work for me in this case. Rainy days in Tokyo can be very gray, so B&W here was a good choice as well I thought. TFS!