What an exellent capture! I especially like the one policeman looking at you, the diagonal, your PP work with the grains and tones, the window with the sign that makes it look like it's on fire. Really really cool street shot. Thanks for sharing
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pretty cool shot Vasyl, looks intimidating to be infront of the police like this.
Couple of things, yellow cast is too strong, what are those little things on the left just below the windows? looks like shark-ghosts to me ;-), either way looks like ps patching some overexposure or something, and your frame is way to overpowering and complicated.
More celebrations tonight?
Peter
Excellent shot Vasyl, we can feel the tension through your shot, thanks to the noise and the darkness. Great work.
It's a nice shot! I like the Yellow tone you added it gives the shot a sense of suspense on their behalf. I was there that night as well, it was crazy I must say.
You done good
Chris
Excellent shot of a moment in Edmonton history that I was here for and embarrased about! :) Really great photo!! Regards, Doug
Vasyl...
All is not benign when the Edmonton Police show force in Old Strathcona after hockey games. A friend of mine was out on Whyte Avenue on the same night, and was taking photos as you were here. It happened that he was photographing police members who were exerting force against hockey revellers who had stepped off of the sidewalk onto the street. A police woman(!!) ordered him to stop taking pictures. When he refused he was struck, knocked to the ground, hitting his head on the cement and knocked out briefly. His camera was damaged, he was arrested, detained, and taken to gaol for the night. To this day, he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and has been in counselling. At the time of the incident, he was 62 years old. His mistake was in telling the police officer that he had a perfect right to take photos. Her mistake was in not knowing that he was a lawyer!!
I only tell you this because of your statement that the police were not harmful, and because of Burnham's comment about the police man that was looking at you. Your photo was taken at 5:49 pm in the Tactical Squad staging area just off Whyte Avenue (I know the area well) My friend was assaulted at about 8:30 pm, on Whyte Avenue near 105 Street. Apparently the police had become less harmful by that time:(
The first rule of photo-documentary work is to let the photo speak for itself, and in this case the officer looking at you may have been doing the talking for the one to his left, who is the very female officer who assaulted my friend.
I should tell you that I too am a lawyer, with 27 years experience in criminal law. What I say here is not to castigate you, but is meant to raise a warning to all that it can be dangerous to assume that what is shown in our photo-documentary work can be taken at face value!!
Having said all of the foregoing, I compliment you on the image. It is dark, foreboding, and filled with tension. A perfect representation of the kind of photo that tells its own story. Well done.
Peter
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I love that the one policeman is looking at you too!! You make this picture much more intense than the night actually was, I do believe! I also love that little silhouette in the upstairs window, good job!