Photographing on the streets, the motives appears and disappears in a fraction of a moment, and I find it extremely difficult to frame the perfect shot. Most of the times I have to do at least some post cropping. Which rises a whole lot of questions. What is the perfect crop? How to single out the subjects? What is really the main subject? What about the background? Can it add something to the picture? Or will it just lead the viewers attention away from the story?
The above picture was originally published some weeks ago, with a totally different crop, emphasizing on the persons solely. You can see it here. This time I’ve chosen to let more of the background show in the composition. Except from that it’s exactly the same picture.
So what do you think? Which one is best? Honest commentaries are most appreciated.
Being the capital of the country, Oslo is the daily destination for loads of commuters. And as it’s a seaside (or more precisely perhaps a ‘fjordside’) city, people even travel by boat.
Living in Norway, where the elements often turns out to be quite interesting, people always keep telling me, “Such an awful weather we have today. It’s certainly impossible to take pictures now.” And I’m always thinking, “Why??”
Bethnal Green is one of my favourite spots in London. With a population of something in the region of 30 000, of which approximately 40% of Bangladeshi descent, and the rest being made up mostly of Africans, White British, Somalis and Caribbeans, it’s a bustling place, packed with green grocers and curry houses, churches and mosques, nice pubs, shops, and even quite a posh restaurant (Typing Room).