One Winter Afternoon

New York: Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

Inspiration: New York winters may be bitter cold, but they aren't gloomy and gray. We get some of the crispest, bluest light during our winter afternoons. I overexposed when I shot this to emphasize the iciness of this past Sunday.

Comments

[Al]

This photo is so beautiful and is so powerful that it seems about to speak and tell you a story.

I just discovered your two blogs and I am getting lost in all the beauty of your pictures. I think I prefer the color one though.
It's just a personal opinion of course, I find your B&W photos very beautiful too. But sometimes it's a pity to miss some shades... For example in a case like this it would have been a shame to miss that pink hat, wouldn't it? :-) I love it.

Al

-The Red Dot-

[The Photodiarist]

Thanks for your wonderful comment, Al. I am obsessed with black and white photos but many people prefer the color blog for the same reason that you mentioned. And I agree about the pink hat! I took this photo intending to display it in color but I kind of liked the B&W version too. But the B&W was definitely a last minute thing. Again, thanks for stopping by.

[davidikus]

I agree with the previous comment: b&w is forgiving (for example it forgives overexposure) but it would have been a pity to miss on that pink hat!

Je peux me tromper mais la crise du photojournalisme me semble surtout technologique ! A cause du développement fulgurant du numérique, de nos jours, tout le monde a un appareil photo. Le marché grandit un peu mais surtout le nombre de photographes a explosé.

Puisque la révolution est technologique, les critères de sélection sont devenus de plus en plus techniques. J'ai lu récemment que parmi les photos du débarquement prises par Capa, au moins 50% seraient jugées impubliables par le rédacteur en chef de Life de nos jours. Cela paraît invraisemblable. Qu'importe qu'il y ait du grain, voire un peu de flou ou que l'exposition ne soit pas parfaite (très relatif). L'important demeure : que dit la photo ? le dit-elle bien ? La composition, le cadrage, sont plus importants que la perfection technique !

La crise esthétique et la crise économique sont donc liées : de bonnes photos sont rejetées au profit de belles photos. On voit de bons photographes rejetés, au profit de photographes pompiers (comme on disait "peintre pompier").

Il faudra encore sans doute cinq à dix ans pour que le tri se fasse. Croisons les doigts.

http://davidikus.blogspot.com/

[scatteredimpressions]

Yes,the pink hat, the pink theme that continues on the other side of the river, on "pier 17" building...

[the nyanzi report]

oooh, that pink makes this whole picture pop. your eye is drawn in.

[M from LMphotografic]

i really like this one! the pink hat makes an amazing contrast between the over-exposed background.. and i like the position of the subject, in the angle but in the centre of the attention!

kisses :)

http://lmphotografic.blogspot.com/

[blancheneige]

an explosion of light, that's a really nice one, aspecially for the person who is sticks ou from the brightness of the picture.

[nora]

ohhhh... i like this color one even better!