How do we know a great image from a not so great one. Or bad one.
As i am an analytical person i sometimes,well most time, find myself de-constructing images.
One image i came across of late is William Klein 's Boy pointing gun.
Now what you notice with this slice from the contact sheet is the very slight difference.
between what made the iconic image, in the bottom one we see the young boy looking away from the older boy with the gun.
In the edited image we all know the young boy is looking at the boy with the gun, as Klein himself has said it is the look of the young boy that made Klein choose this one.So in that case , the great image was a"Just" movement away.
These two portraits are i think my
best the first (on right) is of my
Grandmother the pastel tone
is really very much her character.
and i was lucky enough to catch her in
a moment of some kind .
The other one (below)
is a image i made while i was at uni for a brief called 'Night of the Hunter"
Isis the model is one of the most amazing models i have had the please to photograph
at the time she was studying
film and drama, in this she seemed to have a look of innersense and angry
all at the same time. Both images i am entering in to the Tayler Wessing Portrait Prize this year so fingers crossed.
