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Azrafael — Crossroads
Published: 2004-08-22 07:09:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 767; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 134
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Description
Day by day,We pass each other,
Day by day,
We glance each other,
Day by day,
We repeat the ritual,
Day by day.
Tech Stuff:
Camera: Nikon Pronea 600i
Lens: 70mm
Film: Kodak 200 Advantix APS
Shutter: 1/1000
Aperture: 16
Others: Photoshop Desaturation, Cropping, Borders n Text
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Comments: 27
Very intriguing piece- you've captured the simplicity of the moment.
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This represents the thought i'm always having 
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Those thoughts are partly the reason for the execution of the piece.
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a really beautyfull angle, it reminds me an old movie... that i cant remember the F******* name at this moment...
the composition is perfect, the movement and the perfect clean details...
+fav.
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Thank you;
It was well worth the 'stunt' act to pull off the shot. Yep, leaning over the edge of a high rise building waiting for the right moment.
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Its like the Abbey Road album cover from above - great shot, I love the use of light and the way the people are positioned on the edge of the shadow is justy wonderful 
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Thank you
Glad you like this piece.
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The patchlike quality of the paint on the ground...it's smooth strokes, have been brought out really well against the grain of the street itself. The two combined make the street seem older and well aged...bowing to the pedestrians and cars that roll over it.
You give me fears of dropped cameras with these kinda shots 
finally, you got real lucky with the angle of the shadow/highlight area...it works well with the horizontal framework, cutting the action and image into a kind of 60/40 split of light and dark...
`Rob
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Thank you, Glad you like the detail of the ground highlighting its textures being 'abused' by daily life. But hey that's their job.
The angle was achived thru the same floor where i did the [link] Cept this time I had to lean a near 45Degree. I was walking at that zebra crossing b4 i did this shot and I knew I just had to rush up to do it, the point came where the man pushing the boxes was totally out of being 'in line' somehow he became a point of interest too.
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the capture of this moment is a essence itself..simple and thoughtful...kinda of shows the pace of life ard in singapore. great shot dude
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The very essence of urban dwellers
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Nice perspective, and middle composition ilumination and the movement people is another great idea
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Thank you,
Glad you like the composition for this piece, took me some time to find the right reading and choice of light attention to highlight the shadows.
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Truly grate 
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Thank you
And we the humans are the pawns of the unseen.
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Hey!.. cool shot!... reminds me of All 4 One's music video " I swear " yeah old song... they were watching this girl they like crossing the road form the top of the building some soort like this shot!!...
Good shot!.. the tones... shadow and all that... I LIKE!!!
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Oh my god, I used to sing that song when i was a kid
Thank you so much for your comment
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yes... lol.. i love that song.. i still do... just that that song is no longer on the playlist or is it just me... lol. the radio i mean.. it's been awhile since i tune in to one
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great work
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I doubt its near perfect, but I'm glad you like it alot, Thank you
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excellent contrast shown in this shot. I like how the shadows are captured to be part of the composition. Element of surprise was there when I saw the actual shot as compared to what I saw in my thumbnail
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Thank you
Really wanted shadow play in this piece, glad it worked out one way or another.
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I like how all the shadows blend and mix together to form one big shadow.
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Shadow blending, luckily it suited well at that hour
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again excellent lighting. with all the people running around i think its in the morning. bw is good in streetshots, so i like it. the motif is very very nice, the sharpness is good. i think the whole is is too framed. the upper right is the center of the viewers attention and there is nothing really important for the pic itself, so a more open view would have been better. the angle would be okay then. or, if you really only want to show up "crossroads", you arent supposed to show anything else. its the wrong angle then, and you have to photograph it straigt down or work on it with the computer.
in technical terms its not as good as your other work, but i really like it.
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It's actually in the late afternoon bout 4ish. There wasn't much color play and I strictly wanted this to be in noir.
The whole idea behind this shot to me was to give and 'overlooked' feel of how we do things day by day.
How sometimes we can be so caught up in our own life we don't take notice of the people passing by and just for a moment wodner if they had a good or bad day.
So I chose the top of the view capture (was risky but I'm alive to post it). The way there don't seem to be a main subject at all cept for the static (the zebra crossing) poses the constant in contrast to us humans doing our daily ritual yet not conforming to one certain direction.
The whole idea behind the title on why I chose crossroads is actually a sattire or more of a defiant approach to showcase the overall purpose of this shot. The roads (path) we take tend to cross one of another'sA personal quote I made.
PS: I'm sorry if my work soemtimes isn't as good as the others. Soemtimes it's hard to mantain a certain level of expectations i make up ofr them. I hope so.
Thank you for your comment and criticism, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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