Thanks.
This image shows the importance of having your camera with you all the time.
I was sitting in the waiting lounge of an organization, (not out and about taking photos) I noticed an insect, (too far away to know it was a fly), "sitting" on the glass window, right at the area where the glass window ends and the wall begins.
Right then I had the image in my mind of the fly as a silhouette, and since the bright sunlight outside would automatically shut down the digital shutter, the wall on the right would be "darken" into a solid blank, thus creating an image of the fly silhouetting on the "white" area in contrast to the solid "black" wall, a kind of "Yin & Yang" effect.
On the technical side of this image, I had to time it perfectly because if the moving figures were too forward the bright sunlight would completely "blow-out" the figures which would then lose their sharp outlines. Too early and the figures would not be nice neat silhouettes.
Yes, I quess we'll never know. This is the ultimate beauty of photography. It captures a fleeting moment of time and place of people, a mere fraction of a second, and "immotalizes" it perhaps for the next few centuries, (at least so long as the Internet is alive), like the early photos of the last century where everyone of the people in them are all dead, some without even knowing they were in any photos.
In my photo, the person on the left was gesturing with his right hand, as if making a point. What was it? What were they talking about, obviously of some interest to them, and they did not even know that that moment was captured and now displayed as an image for a photo competition. Would it not be a great twist of fate if one of them were to see this image now?
Thank you very much for the encouraging comments.
As for the 3 figures, it was most fortuitous that the larger figure was in the middle, providing a good visual balance to the magic number as well. And the lady holding the hand bag swung it just so that it was "stopped" by the camera just at the right place to occupy the right bottom area which otherwise would be too "empty" and off balance the whole image.
When I post-processed this image, I was wondering wouldn't it be wonderful If I had their email addresses and sent this image to them?
Thanks for your helpful comments, much appreciated.
It was a truly unexpected opportunity as they "kissed" only for a mere second and right within the magic triangle of the wire fence as if they knew a photographer was nearby.
In the old days of manual focus / shutter, this shot would not be possible. Right place, right time and digital photography helped :)
Old cameras seem to have more "soul"
Perhaps as they needed 100% manual input from a human operator, some of the operator's "soul" went into the images via the intentive fingers and hands?
Like how a sword maker's "soul" got inbued in the swords?
There is something "eternal" about images taken with high quality antique equipment like the Rollicord.
Where they all are now? Their "immortality" is captured and "frozen" in a mere fraction of a second. This is the true wonder of photography which to me is the greatest invention of humankind.
Imagine if God had a video camera, (perhaps He had), we would be seeing images of Adam & Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden, and settle once and for all what "fruit" Eve took from the Tree?
I bet you would not have imagined this image would appear on the "Small Screen" in many places far far away. :)
"Dark and macabre" are quite different from "distasteful", just as there is a difference between "indecent" and "obscene"
It is indecent to walk down a public road naked, but obscene if you do something to attract attention to yourself.
Quote:- "Am I in hot water?"
Maybe, but just keep cool like that trishawrider :)
Thanks; couldn't have said it better myself :)
