Graffiti at night

[Antonio Correia]

Today at night, a couple of artists was painting outside on the street using a projector as help for their work.
They were drawing / painting a well known poet from Setúbal.
I took the picture of the girl but I think it is not good as she was in a very difficult area of the work and partly hidden by him during the time I have been there.

EDIT
I decided to post this one of the girl. Actually, they were working together on the same project.

[Shadowman]

Antonio,

Did you manually focus on the first shot, I would think the patterns would fool most AF systems? Nice efforts and the second helps add clarity to the first image.

[Manfred M]

It reminds me of artists of the past using a camera obscura to sketch out their projects, but with a modern twist.

I find your first image quite effective as you have captured a blend of both the artist at work as well as being the platform of a projected art image too. I've done projected image photography in the studio before, but applying it outside looks like something worth trying. The power source for the projector could be a bit challenging...

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you John and Manfred for your comments.
As I wrote in the beginning, I was not going to post the second picture as it is not that good...
The camera has focused automatically on the person in both instances.

I have customised a button so that pressing it, I can rotate the barrel on the lens and fine tune the focus point. I have not been doing it frequently and I still struggle with the sense of the rotation.
But I will come to it if I don't change my mind and make it to operate automatically and manual at the same time.
Have a nice weekend !

[pschlute]

The first is a very effective picture.

[Antonio Correia]

The first is a very effective picture.

Agree.
The second one is out of focus in the background... I should have rejected it.
Have a nice weekend Peter !

[lovelife65]

Love that first image Antonio, it tells a great story, and the composition itself is very effective. I do prefer it over your second image, which is less interesting.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Sharon !
You are right to prefer the first image, so do I.
The second one is more a "complement" to contextualize the text.

Today, I went into the location and shot the final work.

[lovelife65]

Thank you Sharon !
You are right to prefer the first image, so do I.
The second one is more a "complement" to contextualize the text.

Today, I went into the location and shot the final work.

That makes sense Antonio, and AWESOME image. I'm a huge lover of street art, so you are getting me excited LOL

[Antonio Correia]

Perhaps in this photo is lacking a sense of scale...

[pschlute]

I think you have captured it very well.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Peter !

[Manfred M]

Interesting work on shooting the finished mural at night. If you have a chance to photograph it in daylight, that would be an interesting addition to this thread.

[Antonio Correia]

Manfred, I made this photo just for you, a few hours ago.
The shop is where the bored young man is waiting.

[Manfred M]

Manfred, I made this photo just for you, a few hours ago.
The shop is where the bored young man is waiting.

Another aha moment. The work is obviously on the shop's roll down shutter, so it is only visible at times where the shop is closed. I guess I should have asked for a picture that was not taken at night, but when the shop was closed.

[Antonio Correia]

later, later

[rpcrowe]

I like both of these image although I do really like the first one best.

Regarding image #2, I would:

a. Crop it a bit from image left
b. Lower the brightness of her shirt towards image left where the sun hits it and brighten the image right portion of the shirt
c. Brighten her face just a little

What do you think?

[Antonio Correia]

Richard, I don't think the photo worth that effort.

Anyway, thank you for the idea. If only the photo was better I would do according to your suggestion, but as the poor thing is so... poor...

Cheers !

[Antonio Correia]

Another aha moment. The work is obviously on the shop's roll down shutter, so it is only visible at times where the shop is closed. I guess I should have asked for a picture that was not taken at night, but when the shop was closed.

Manfred, yesterday I have been to the shop and there was no lights on. So, I couldn't take the shot.
Perhaps another day I will do it...

[Manfred M]

Thanks for the update, Antonio.

Don't worry about it if you can't get the shot.