Leaving San Vitale

I am currently enjoying a holiday in the north-east of Italy. This was taken in Ravenna a few days ago. Have at it.
 
Well I like it, and we love Italy in our house.
The photograph, yes I like the fact that you can see only half of the persons, due to the shadow.
The man is the mystery for me, what is he carrying , another child, a loaf of bread, and I like a bit of that mystery in photographs.
I must say before I look silly, I am very amateur when it comes to all aspects of photography, so its hard for me to critique.
If it were my photograph, I would crop out the sky
Sky's really bother me now, simply because I have a very difficult time getting them to be attractive in my own photographs, especially on film photographs.
I think its very very good.
 
I like that a lot Glenn. Something different where you've captured a moment with interesting light and just enough detail in the shadows to avoid the subjects being totally isolated. Nice shot.
 
Oldbones said:
Well I like it, and we love Italy in our house.
The photograph, yes I like the fact that you can see only half of the persons, due to the shadow.
The man is the mystery for me, what is he carrying , another child, a loaf of bread, and I like a bit of that mystery in photographs.
I must say before I look silly, I am very amateur when it comes to all aspects of photography, so its hard for me to critique.
If it were my photograph, I would crop out the sky
Sky's really bother me now, simply because I have a very difficult time getting them to be attractive in my own photographs, especially on film photographs.
I think its very very good.
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Please don't undersell yourself, I hadn't even noticed the brightness of the sky. Thanks for the feedback. I deliberately under exposed it so there my be something to recover there. I'll go look.

If I remember correctly, the man was carrying a baby and holding his daughter's hand with right hand across his body. I waited for it, looking directly at the scene and ignoring the viewfinder as I had set up the composition and focus beforehand.
 
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Oldbones said:
Well I like it, and we love Italy in our house.
The photograph, yes I like the fact that you can see only half of the persons, due to the shadow.
The man is the mystery for me, what is he carrying , another child, a loaf of bread, and I like a bit of that mystery in photographs.
I must say before I look silly, I am very amateur when it comes to all aspects of photography, so its hard for me to critique.
If it were my photograph, I would crop out the sky
Sky's really bother me now, simply because I have a very difficult time getting them to be attractive in my own photographs, especially on film photographs.
I think its very very good.
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Thought it might please you to know the judge made the same comment regarding the sky despite the fact I had toned down the brightness and recovered cloud detail.
 
I think its a very very good photograph, and I am far from being in any way or form being a judge of photographs.
Sitting through a couple of years of contests, including my own photographs, I sort of know what they will say.
But I feel, that has perfection had its day, has it again become feeling and impact that really counts.
I believe so, and I don't think perfection is required.
You captured light and humanity, feeling and love, age and youth, brilliant capture.
Well done its great.
 
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