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Published: 2009-04-15 21:19:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1991; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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I stood across the street from that building for a while, thinking something cool might happen. After about five minutes of twiddling my thumbs and people watching, this guy was in a hurry somewhere.Pentax ME Super + Pentax A 50mm f/1.7 + Tri-X EI 1600 + Diafine
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I like what you did here. Especially in the limited time you had to do it given that the person was running. You captured the person in place very well (mid-stride). It would have been nice if you had caught the person a step or two further down so they were right between the two background elements.
There is also a lot of great geometry going on in this shot. Lots of triangles and angles. I definitely love that.
For the most part, I like the exposure. The only area that bothers me a little is on the upper left. It is a bit too dark compared to the rest of the shot. That's a minor complaint though, because it isn't suppose to be the focus of the shot anyway.
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This street photo is a very special one. It has just the perfect balance between an photo "by accident" and a concepted one.
The strict composition seems to be chosen very carefully because it is very well lined up and many photographic rules are included and at the same broken. To put this into one photo is very artistic. The small pathwaybridge and the cubestylebuidling end / begin at ~ 1/3 of the photo. In contrast to that the curb is placed at the very border area of the photo which brakes the same rule as perfectly used as described before.
Secondly the many triangles you can find in the picture: The first one at the column top, the second and the other s right of it in the sculpture, in opposite directions. Then the small parymid- objects on the left and right and the perspective combined of the left bridge and the reflection of it on the right.
Up to that point it could have been an architecture shot as well.
The thing that changes almost EVERYTHING is the child running across the scenery. First his legs form another triangle in the moment you pushed the button. This is the port from one genre to another. The child is horizontally positioned at exact 1/3 of the photo, but vertically at a pretty center position. again the ruleusing and -breaking thing.
So far to the technical and composition things. The next point is the interaction "by accident".
This is created by the child, the sign "Mission" and the triangles. the child is not only running but taken just under the sign that tells us he is on a perticular "MISSION". If it would have been a black jacket he wears a childbond would have been created.
However we are told something of the mission, too. The direct object that gives the mission has the toptriangle that directs into sky. And even the small triangles in the downward triangle seem to say: everything at the top, to the sky.
that gives us the greater situation. A child running at the bottom between high businessbuildings on a mission to get upwards. Isn't this a symbol for youth?! Beeing at the very beginning but beeing on the life's mission? Wanting to reach aims and beeing successful?
A very deep and artistic shot you took.
The slight blur on all the scenery might have been a bit less but isn't really distracting the photo in its inner impact.
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Sheesh..."MCG0603 " sure knows how to make ME feel like an uneducated pleb. BUT, this is definitely a unique shot. The shapes, the shades, very well done.
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is he suspended in the air? 
I've got the same camera you have , I had it from my father and it's pretty neat camera though I would like to replace it by an olympus OM2 or any good old canon reflex.
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haha yeah I think so, he was running pretty fast and I'm pretty sure this is mid-step. 
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The Olympus OM serie is also a pretty good serie, a mate lent me one and I liked it that much but for now I do enjoy using my Olympus
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awesome!
I should try doing that... 
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Thanks
Keep trying, it'll come
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Yah like I said I think im going to try some more down where I live when I get back!
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