Junior Tycoon

[flashback]

Color, because otherwise the graffiti would get lost.

[RBSinTo]

Jack,
I like the intent of the image, but the point of focus is on the wall rather than the subject, which is unfortunate.
Robert

[ashish]

I like it Jack... nicely spotted and captured. Also, i like the way you have focussed on the graffiti rather than Junior Tycoon himself.

[Shadowman]

Jack,
I like the intent of the image, but the point of focus is on the wall rather than the subject, which is unfortunate.
Robert

I thought it was to emphasize the "big tycoon" on the wall.

[Shadowman]

Has some good layers, must've been taken rather hastily to get the action.

[flashback]

Robert, thanks. As I'm sure you are aware, we don't always get that perfect shot and so, sometimes we settle for something less than perfect. Such is the art of street photography.

[flashback]

Thank you Ashish. I'd love to say 'intentional' but as it was, the man was just a bit too close for my zone focus...wait, I mean, of course I meant to take the image this way...

[flashback]

Thanks John, it was a snap shot. The guy facing us is what caught my attention, not for nothing but....he had that quintessential paisan look to him, an up and comer, leather hat, scarf, fingerless leather gloves, cigarette, cell phone, very "Yo, Adrian..." ifyaknowwhatImean.

[IzzieK]

I agree with you on the shot...and the connection to the graffiti on the wall. Well spotted.

[Rebel]

Love it Jack

[Dave Humphries]

I glanced at this shot yesterday but did not even see the graffiti tycoon, Jack.

While the positioning of the two works, you're just too close to the foreground chap and more distance, combined with a longer focal length would be the way to more successfully capture this scene if it were to be repeated (assuming more distance, etc. is even possible).

I appreciate I'm asking a lot, probably the impossible, but that's how I see it - as an opportunity that, for whatever reason, hasn't come to full fruition.

I don't 'do' "street" myself, perhaps I should set myself that challenge now, after my recent attempt to emulate the photographic conditions Brian (JBW) shoots under.

Dave

[Sergio M.]

A tough one, Jack, but you still captured something that interested you. I find interest in his expression, the way he is dressed, and whether he was interacting with the fellow going by.

Sergio

[flashback]

Thanks Izzie, Matt and Sergio.
Dave, I zone focus and usually it's set to focus from about 9ft to infinity, in this case I may have been a bit closer and so the guy is OOF. The graffiti is still there but I suspect trying to recreate this image would be near impossible.

[Dave Humphries]

Dave, I zone focus and usually it's set to focus from about 9ft to infinity, in this case I may have been a bit closer and so the guy is OOF. The graffiti is still there but I suspect trying to recreate this image would be near impossible.

I agree on the last part.

It was the disparity of relative sizes, plus (mainly, in fact) the plethora of other (colorful and sizable) distractions in the frame that did it for me
Rather than the focus distance and Depth of Field

I wondered about suggesting a really severe crop; to show just the young tycoon's head and shoulders (plus the graffiti), but that loses the hand, phone, cigarette, coat, etc., so wouldn't work anywhere near as well.