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Photographer’s Note

A woman exits Stephansplatz Station in central Vienna, to be greeted with the scene from yesterdays image.

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cknara (567) 2007-09-12 1:48

Very blurred or lack of focus.
Not sure on what you mean to convey through this.

Thanks
Nara

Mondaychild (1513) 2007-09-12 6:13

Hi Brendan,

so what ... should this tell me about Vienna?
Besides the "meaning" it´s out of focus.

Furachan (0) 2007-09-13 0:58

That is not bad at all actually Brendan, mate. A sorely misunderstood shot in my view (too many litteralists around, what?)The colors pop against the grey background and I can only conclude that you were going after this particular effect, knwowng you as I do.
Cheers, here's at least "2" beads for ya,
Francis

PJE (19575) 2007-09-13 7:19

Brendan along the topic of the forum comments I think honestly would have made this photo better was to have her in focus and have the background sign OUT of focus, if not removed altogether. The capture of her rising is excellent and a very strong image. Sometimes the camera's selective focus point does not work the way you want it to. I have many a ruined shots when this happened to me. Darn it all.

Thanks for sharing!

Homerhomer (4005) 2007-09-13 20:13

ha Brendan, you must have been a bad boy to earn such raving reviews on this one, complained about critiques being too sweet or gave less than glowing review to one of the..(ahh never mind)...?

Anyway, since this is slow shutter speed shot I don't think that having the focus on the woman would have made much sense, gather the point was to show her movement, emerging out of the subway system, hence the sign in focus is IMO a good choice.

Thing is the whole set up doesn't excite me too much, it's an allright photo Brendan, with thought put into the making of the image, but not much more than that.
Peter

brevbrev14 (372) 2007-09-15 1:12

Hi Brendan, this image has a little problem of sharpness for my taste and also the lines are not perfect..
any way i like the composition and the blured woman with the red dresses...she creats a great contrast in the middle of the gray..
i send you a WS
ciao!
Valeria

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