Happy Belated Wednesday everyone - Today's image goes back to my days haunting around Red Hook. As I've posted before, I used to love walking around the neighborhood looking for photos, and naturally the waterfront was a big attraction. Just like clockwork, everyday this gentleman would wind up on the water with his two dogs on a walk. On this one occasion, I decided to grab a quick shot or two of him as his dogs circled around him. I was focusing on trying to capture the animated expressions they showed as they circled around his feet on their walk. This daily activity obviously meant so much to his dogs and you could see it in their faces everyday, not only in this shot. As far as this shot goes, I really liked it after I took it, but since then have grown quite a bit more critical of it. My first critique of this photo is in the format. At the time, I chose a portrait format to capture the older man against the water. However, as time has passed, I think landscape (horizontal) would have worked better as the background of the ship and the port don't add anything to the photo. Secondly, the older man is very much in the wrong spot on the photo. I think he needed to be closer to a "rule of thirds" position in the frame and probably I should have zoomed out a bit more to give him some room to move through the frame. But, this is where we learn.
Enjoy your belated Wednesday -
Red Hook, Brooklyn - The Dog Walker