Summer time

Summer time

Location
Porto
Equipment Used
135 film
Exposure
n/a
Film & Developer
Ilford fp4 + FX-39
Paper & Developer
scanne + Imacon
Lens Filter
none
I have looked at a few of your images in the gallery and I would suggest (not sure if English is your first language) but your descriptions don't really add anything to your pictures. In fact although I'm not a fan of naming pictures, but if you do, stare at them and make a decision what the picture actually says. And not just to you. I understand this was taken in summertime but it really doesn't say that to a viewer. The point of interest in this picture is not the pole which adds nothing to the picture in the location you left it in. In fact I'd crop the picture so the pole was near the right side. In fact I'd crop it to the left of the other light pole. The point of interest in the picture is the silhouette of the man walking. He looks somewhat ominous. He is the primary interest of the picture. Then name the picture for what that man says to the picture. In your picture of Seeking Shade. It really makes no sense since, almost every piece of ground in the picture is already in shade. It would make more sense to call it seeking solitude. In Fish. Which is a good picture. I'd call it Dead Fish. It's more impactful and perhaps emotional. In The White Umbrella. The umbrella is not white. It's floral. It's not about color of the umbrella, it's about the floral pattern of the umbrella, because everything else in the picture is hard lines, and the umbrella is about shade from the hard lines and adding to that is that it's floral. Soft lines, flowers, nature, juxtaposed against the hard lines of the rest of the picture. Getting Together. The impressions is right but the words are not strong enough. They are all black. Getting together could be anybody. But these are all black. I'd name it more in the vein of The Meeting Place or even Safe Haven. My point is this. After we make a print, the naming is not just a throwaway. The name can add gravitas. It can enhance the picture. It can even take it to a whole higher level. Even if when you took the picture you didn't know that. When we look at our prints and wish to name them. Stare at them and ask, what is the picture saying. And that is not necessarily what we were trying to say when we took it.
 

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