The Notting Hill Man, a photo from London, England

Photographer's Note

Portobello Road Market is a street market located in Portobello Road in the Notting Hill area of West London. The world-famous part of it sells antiques and draws many tourists. I was one of them in october last year. Down the street I noticed this man in a wheelchair watching a show with string-puppies. Everybody around us was watching the same show, but this man draw mine attention. Could have been better resolution, but I had to use the digital zoom. But I think it gives the photo a nice effect. What do you think?

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torben (3100) 2005-11-21 14:06

Hej Tommy, siden jeg ikke har lagt mærke til dine billeder før vil jeg da lige sige velkommen, så der!

Manden har bestemt et interessant ansigt og det virker som om du har fanget ham i et øjeblik hvot noget af hans indre liv kommer frem i det, både det svage smil og øjnene.

Den grynede kvalitet, sammen med sepia-toningen giver billedet et lidt nostalgisk gammeldags og drømmende udtryk som jeg synes passer meget godt til mandens ansigt og holdning.

Jeg bryder mig ikke så meget om den mørke vignettering som du har tilføjet billedet, den virker for påtrængende efter min mening. Hvis gennemsigtigheden på den sorte ramme var sat ned til f.eks. 50% tror jeg det ville virke bedre, medmindre der er noget slemt ude i de sorte områder som skal skjules :-)

ktanska (44492) 2005-11-24 2:34

It's a cool photo although there's quite a lot of empty space at the top. Square framing might have worked better. Your PP gives it a rather surreal look, which I like. It looks like an old magazine picture. I tried something similar with my punk rock shots.
Kari

Polonaise (5802) 2006-02-17 20:02

I'm glad you asked Tommy.
It does, it really gives that effect of one of those great, old fashion photographs. For some reason this
pic recalls some of the New Orleans' jazz musicians
images you can see on the old vinyl records' sleeves.
Eeeh... Maybe I see the things?
Regards
George
Toronto