Oxford Street in London Saturday 2nd December. This street was closed to traffic for the day and was a sea of people going about their Christmas shopping.
Walking in the middle of the street was this very determined man bearing his own cross with the words as seen on the cross.
**post challenge comment**
Thank you everybody who took the time to vote on my second challenge entry. 12 out of 161 is a great result.
However......I am very interested how someone could place a score of 1-3 without constructive criticism? Granted, there was some over exposure in the sky as I used spot meter on the central character's face and there is some distraction with the foreground figures which I could have avoided if I stopped the foot traffic for a moment longer to compose the shot better, but unless there was a major technical failure, I could not post such a low score on someone.
This was a candid street shot which I enjoy doing (please check out my pbase account if you like this kind of thing at //www.pbase.com/arjay.
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Place: 10 out of 163 Avg (all users): 6.5127 Avg (commenters): 8.0833 Avg (participants): 6.6515 Avg (non-participants): 6.4588 Views since voting: 2181 Views during voting: 360 Votes: 236 Comments: 37 Favorites: 10 (view)
WOW! What a great image glad I got to see it. Nice placing though I think it should have done much better but that's no surprise. There are people out there that have a knee-jerk reaction to some things and if they thought you were preaching that may have been why you got nailed (pardon the pun) with a few 3's.
Very nicely captured. My top pick for the challenge. You may have cropped a bit off the top and still had a good composition - would have removed some of the brightness. But overall excellent. Oh yes - and He is! Back one more time. I want to see this image on the front page pretty bad. Bumping up to a 10 and adding to my faves. Well done!
being a Christian Pastor, I love this image for its photojournalistic qualities...an awesome image, great in b and w and great for the challenge...all the best with this 10
This is the type of photos and scenes I search for. The only remark I have is about the boy to the right of the sign man,being too prominent. If he was more out of focus or in the back it would be just perfect. But you don't get to choose all the time.
First of all I like this because I am a Christian and I fully believe that He is life. Luck probably played a role in this, but the different facial expressions are just great. I like the black and white option. In colour the photo was probably too busy. I see the streetlights are slightly slanting to the right. Use your software and rotate the image one or two degrees to the left. Then just crop sightly to get it square again. Good luck
i like this photo.. however the blur on the right side is too much for me.... distracting me from the center of the picture where i should be looking...
Probably going to get hammered but I really like the image. You really took a chance by entering this (religion, politics and America aren't usually high scorers) but this shot evokes emotion and was technically done well. 9 from me.
great sense of depth and the crowd. Excellent use of DoF to isolate the subject, though would prefer maybe without the person directly to his front/ left.
There are a lot who will vote this down simply because it is religious. Before I even looked at one life or death photo I had already decided to to add 3 points to whatever the score would have been if it had a religious theme (in order to offset those who vote it down just for the same reason).
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