On 6/10/2010 12:32 PM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
> The gap between rich and poor have never been - even in our troubled past
> here in South Africa - been as great as it is now. I generally don't like
> photographing unfortunate people, and tried here not to focus as much on the
> sitting man, as on the contrast of him and the scene behind him.
>
> http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/161/d/5/The_Gap_by_philosomatographer.jpg
> (OM-1, 90mm at f/2.0, Ilford FP4+, 8x10in analogue print)
>
Nicely seen and captured. Still, your métier of very shallow plane of
focus requires great care in focusing and has, to my eye, failed here.
The lower legs in focus and face soft doesn't really work for me. I'm
not sure I mind the soft face, but the part that's in focus seems wrong
to me.
YMMV
Moose
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