Jay: Really good concept, but you did not hit it out-of-the-park. If the subject is man crawling out of a hole, then the man must be tack-sharp (which this one is not) and the background elements should be slightly out-of-focus—thus making the man the SUBJECT! Great perspective—street level. What the hell were you doing lying on the sidewalk.
Me: Yes.
Jay: If you are going to go to that trouble, then bring me back a real winner, not this want-to-be idea on paper!
Me: Yes.
Jay: If you are going to go to that trouble, then bring me back a real winner, not this want-to-be idea on paper!
At this point, Jay talked at some length about working the subject. He said that a great concept poorly executed produces another bad photo. You must constantly refine your idea so that you distill it down to only the elements that you consider “the story.” That may mean that you give up on it today and go back tomorrow—but, you go back until you get what you are seeing in your mind.
While Jay was talking about refining your photo, my mind wondered to a Joe McNally seminar that I attended with Steve Schuencke. Joe was working with a female model and the images that were flashing up on the screen were good, but, he keep working it, and finally, a photo flashed up and you hear a collective “wow” from the attendees. On the way home from the seminar, the only think that Steve and I talked about was Joe working the image.
Enjoy. Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 70-300mm f/3.5-5.6 at 300mm, ISO 1,600, f/11 and 1/180th of a second.
Post Processing: None!
As a NYer I appreciate this one. I feel like a animal emerging from its den every morning. For me I wished that you had included what station this was.
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