Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 15 April 2008 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.
Taken yesterday in the Sydney city centre (14th of April 2008) shortly before that day's photo. Very rarely have I come across two such interesting subjects within less than half an hour, when walking round the city streets. And again, this seemed to work so much better in black and white.
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si la de ayer era buena, ésta es fantàstica,más que instantaneas parecen bodegones,donde tú colocas los"objetos" como quieres. el señor,sin cabeza,gran panza,con traje pero sin ser elegante,corbata girada,y el niño protegiendo su tesoro,pendiente de todo(menos de tí)
y ya rizando el rizo,la escalera que sube hacia la oscuridad
como se me va la cabeza....
lo siento tengo demasiada imaginación jejeje
15 Apr 2008 4:43am
Hi Andrew, I seem to be playing catch up with your blog, will be back for another look later this evening :) Two fantastic b&w images. I love the composition of this, a little man in a big man's world.
15 Apr 2008 6:05am
I love the black and white here! The framing is so intriguing and makes the viewer want more. Fantastic work!
15 Apr 2008 7:27am
Exceptional message, love this Andrew!
15 Apr 2008 10:49am
Andrew, I think these docu images of your's a really great, look excellent in BW. Good work mate.
15 Apr 2008 11:32am
What a great and imaginative composition. The untold story here is magnificent, great shot Andrew.
15 Apr 2008 3:39pm
Could write a screenplay based on this one image, Andrew . . it screams out like suddenly waking up in the big city!
15 Apr 2008 7:15pm
Another great moment you caught here! Love the boy's face and the shadows on the steps.
16 Apr 2008 1:55am
you captured the emotion in this scene quite nicely, great job!
16 Apr 2008 8:20am
I really like this shot as it tells so much about the moment and the people. I also like the B&W treatment and I was just asking someone else as to what makes them decide that B&W is a better choice than color, and similarly - what technique is best to use to create B&W images. Again - very nice photograph!
16 Apr 2008 4:00pm
@Emilio Garcia: Thanks for the comment. I use black and white when I see that colour causes certain details to be intrusive. In Photshop CS3 you go to Image -- Adjustments -- Black and White. This gives really rich tones straight off, and allows fine adjustment, too. Before CS3, I used to use the Channel Mixer, which is also under Adjustments. Here you uncheck the Monochrome box. The latter method can produce very good results too, after making some adjustments, although I prefer the first way. You can also go Image -- Mode -- Gray Scale, but this simply discards all colour information and does not give any way to fine tune the results.
Brilliant Andrew - love it
18 Apr 2008 1:57am
What I like about this is that it opens outward instead of closing the subject. That is, it gives us the platform from which we can imagine a variety of stories that happened both before and after this photo was taken. Well done.
20 Apr 2008 6:31am
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