Sorry We Are Leaving
This is one of my favorite recent photos, because there's a whole story encapsulated in it, one that I just happened to stumble across and be lucky enough to capture. I think that's the goal with most types of photography--telling a story--but especially with documentary and street photography. It's not the most technically perfect or artistically composed picture--though I think it does well enough in those regards--but even so, I think it's one of the most expressive, evocative images I've ever made. You know, as long as I'm tooting my own horn and all.
Technical info: Shot with a Nikon D40 and Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 DX lens, in aperture priority mode. Aperture f/1.8, shutter 1/125 sec, ISO 1600. Slight curve applied in Aperture 3 to deepen the blacks, recover the highlights, and hold the midtones.
Thoughts for improvement: The main thing that detracts from this image, in my opinion, are the chairs and trash in the foreground. There wasn't time to pull them out of the shot--aside from which, the guys working there probably wouldn't have wanted me moving their furniture--but in a perfect world, they wouldn't be there.
Anna:
I may have wanted to remove the trash but not necessarily the chairs. It adds some depth to the picture that you have something right in the front.