Okay, so I lied. He wasn't really lost...I actually had to crop out his dad who was standing 2 feet away.
Hopefully people won't score me down for the grain. It's my first time doing something like this, but I feel that I really need to since all of the major street photography shots I've seen are very grainy and in b/w.
It was really hard to pick which photo to submit. I had at least 3 really good choices, but chose this because it seems different...meaning not a homeless person :)
Although I have to admit, 2 other good shpts I took were of homeless people. Oh well, I like this and I hope it fairs okay...even if it is super-grainy-artsy-fartsy.
:::After Challenge:::
AWWWWWWWWW!! Another 21st place!...so close...
It's okay though, I'm really happy with the way this scored and turned out. Thanks for all of the comments :)
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I apparently liked this one when voting too, I gave it a well deserved ten. I love the tones of the stairs and the little guy just makes this one special!
Terrific composition. I like what you did with the crop here. I like how you can just see the one eye, gives the photo a nice emotion. Good gritty scene, with the repeating patterns. The angle you chose also works well as they give the stairs a nice line that moves the eye throughout the frame. Terrific capture!
I love shooting children this age. It's like shooting wildlife -- you just wait, and they will do something charming or awful. I like the composition of this shot, and I don't mind the grain at all -- it seems appropriate for this image, which looks vintage. Congratulation on a score to be envied by all Team Suck members.
great composition, a thirties sense of melodrama to this shot. I gave it a 7. In a less brilliant challenge, it would have gotten a higher score and a comment.
Darn near a top twenty but better still, a great score on a great image! Nothing wrong with this at all. I do like the grain - works very well for this. And I like the very tight crop next to the young child with that vast expanse of stairs next to and behind him - it creates a great tension in the photograph. Well done!
Oh my goodness! Cool gritty feel here and this shot definitely evokes an emotion to me....I want to scoop him up and tell him all will be ok. Wonderful, powerful shot!
There are a bunch of pictures in this competition that are titled "Lost, but this is the only one that caught my eye. Wonderful tonality, framing, and subject. A very nice capture of a moment.
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