Nigel's Rather More Stranger Shots

Back out again in South Kensington with renewed confidence after the success of my first attempts at this genre ... Shop-Window Street Portraits. I decided to go for variety this time, looking for all sorts, a real cross-section of the local demography. Being South Kensington though, it was hard to find one not extremely well dressed.

All with the K7 & Tamron Adaptall 135mm f2.8, most at f4.0.


1.







2.







3.







4.







5.







6.







7.








8.







9.







10.




Thanks for your interest and for all thoughts and feedback !

I'm no expert, Nigel, but I'm sure I've read somewhere that you're always supposed to get the eyes in focus.

Cheers.
Philip

I've tried something similar myself, but I think you have to have an exceptional subject to make it work. You may stand a chance with a closer crop on #2

Agree with Barrie. #2 is a keeper. The rest aren't in the same league really IMHO...

Creepy...something about the 'Dr Who' faceless entity about them.

I actually think you've got some good shots there although I can't get 'comfortable' enough about the subject matter to want to delve deeper.

If I had just one general criticism about most of the shots it is simply the way you have lobotomised many of them...I think it would have been better to have framed them heads intact. Otherwise...its certainly something different.

Karlo

7 and 10 are great as well

These are very good indeed Nigel, the idea is great and your compositions just right. The Doctor Who comment is fair enough as well, we could believe these would animate and smash their way out into the street.

Thanks guys, I thought they had a rather sinister aspect as well! I didn't linger too long outside each window, thats for sure


hmmm, yes I'd heard that, then also that you go for the eyebrows! In either case it was hard to get a good lock-on with some of these strangers

Thanks also to Barrie & Will for that feedback - is it that No2 has stronger angles, a better viewpoint? The others are plainer, straighter type of shots. I'll work at that for my next series

I think it's the viewpoint giving a silhouette and then the strong shadows which accentuate the forms

Thanks Barrie, i tried to emphasise the shadow contrasts as much as possible, and tried to make some of the others a bit 'low-key' as well.