couple shots from Detroit

[noamnety]

I was downtown Friday for cease-fire rally at the bridge to Canada:

[JeffR]

1. These are wonderful

Especially the first one: photography stripped down to its essence. Fabulous.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Those are truly outstanding images!

Just the arrangements of colors/shades alone, devoid of content, would be intriguing on a gallery wall. The subjects, and the ambiguity (what are they thinking - what is happening?) make the images compelling far beyond the graphical appeal.

I like the first best (luscious color is a turn-on); it is maybe because it is simpler. In the second I wonder if the kid (the focus for the photo as I see it) should be brightened up a bit or if the "hard to see" quality actually makes it more "explorable." The three women in the third, again, make this viewer look again and again and wonder about their lives and feelings.

[noamnety]

3. thanks (both of you) for the feedback

The first is my favorite as well, the lighting and colors all came together there for me.

The second one, I lightened the kid's face a fair amount already - it was definitely too dark to start with, but maybe I'll go a tiny bit further and catch his shirt as well.

The last one, I think I may need to adjust it some more too. If I lighten the pole in the center slightly and darken the woman's scarf on the right, I might be able to force the repetition of that shape in the left woman's hair and the right woman's scarf. I don't think that's coming through in the photo the way I see it in my mind - like the back woman is an echo of the front woman.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. The adjustment options with digital processing are overwhelming.

They leave me almost paralyzed (is this better, or this, or this?). But the pole doesn't bother me. It divides the photo into two halves, one (stunningly beautiful, handless) woman versus her plainer (legless) sister/cousin and in far background like a ghost, mother/grandmother, all involved somehow in the same effort, something only hinted at by the few letters on signs and flags. It is certainly a very intricately engaging photo, and all three could go on any gallery wall as they are (or appear on my monitor).

(edit because I forgot to run spell check before posting)