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January 2009
The story behind it
01/01/2009
Well, a bit of a more personal touch in all of this, is not at all bad!We were in NY, two weeks before the 9/11. We walked freely, safe and light. The heat was tiring, with high humidity. We visited the usual touristy places. At the Twin Towers, we didn't feel compelled to go up. Staying at the ground floor, on the small plaza, was enough. Sometimes, even on a great journey, we decide not to do things that the majority of the tourists do. Is it to keep the hope to return and repeat the genuine curiosity of seeing new things?
Comment
Technical issues
01/01/2009
This was taken with an "old" APS camera, the waterproof Canon Elph Sport! It is not really what you wish for when making a good photo. But, and there is always a "but" (especially in photography), the camera isn't everything. The film is the Kodak Advantix 100 ASA, colour, scanned and converted to B&W. Opening the APS film box, the scan allows getting the whole of it (just a little crop, on the left). With some care, the scan is pretty good! But this, in this case, doesn't determine THE photograph.Composition! Way before the model or the brand of the camera and of the moment of the click, there is an inbeing work, a photographic vision that is way above everything.
Critial review
01/01/2009
This is not a trad touristy photo, being more than memory. When photographing there was a basic concern - composition. The bridge suspension lines converge to my wife. She displays a misterious but light expression and looks out of the bridge. Besides composition, there is a great contrast between her lightness and beauty and the power of the bridge structure. The photograph's value comes from the content and framing, joint in a unique way. B&W brings up the portrait in the landscape.Contrasts and convergences. Lightness and weight. Beauty and power. It had to be NY!
HipHip! Composition! Portrait in the landscape!
Where you should place it
01/01/2009
Urban, urban!From this example of portrait in the landscape, that has been part of my photography work, a photograph of this type may serve two objectives: this is very effective to whoever wishes making use of their own image, in the best sense, for ego massage, providing strength and personality to a living-room or office; in the case that the owner is not the person in the portrait, then it is a photograph for striking aesthetics and for a uniquely powerful decoration.
I would vote for a grey or red wall. No frame.
