Street photography is sometimes so surprising. So here I am sitting on a beach by Lake Geneva and notice a heart shaped bucket laying a few meters away. I take out my camera, mount a 85mm lens and start composing. A heart left alone on the rocks, isn't that full of meaning ? As I ready to click, a girl suddenly enters my frame and reaches to the bucket. My first reaction is : "damn, she is going to steal muy bucket", so I click straight away. It is only afterwards that I realized she was actually looking at me. That makes the story even more powerful, doesn't it, and even opens up the story. This being said, she was probably just thinking "why the hell is this guy shooting my bucket ?"
All in all, you are not supposed to know the real story anyways, this is street photography, so here is "A bucket of love" and I'll let you come up with your own allegory today. (click on picture for high res)
Leica M9 with 85mm Jupiter 9 at F2.8, 1/4000, ISO160
Wow! Now if you could only have had the chap in the background suck in his belly (or better still fall out of the frame) :)
LOL, I thought this way at the beginning, but now I feel it adds to it. The frame would be a bit too empty without the man (and his belly)
HCB disait qu'il fallait compter avec un peu de chance … et bien en voila un bel exemple … splendide photo et plutôt sensuelle !
Yannick – Je voudrais voir le reste de la jeune fille…
Hello Yanick,
again a keeper!
You must be a brave man, that photo-god is sending you that kind of situation, and again you have been prepared ;-)
I don't think that the man in the rear distracts – in opposite he is really needed.
If you look to the image as a thumbnail it may can be seen better – you will see the whole composition better – "he" builds a triangle which "she" does give him.
I can imagine that you may quickly just moved some inch left or right to get it like that. Wounder how to get this 100% like here with the rangefinder parallax. (May be at 85mm and given distance it is not that strong anymore)
Gorgeous image!
Ciao Axel
let me add – the guy also gives a portion of more life, and real life to it, more true situation. Don't know how to put into words.