Comments: street dancers

Like the old song said, "We were dancin', dancin' in the streets

Posted by Don at October 2, 2010 11:49 AM

A great capture, and another cool illustration of how cropping, or the size of the screen, makes a big difference.

The first take: a Kensington-casual pleasant disarray, in the midst of which two informally-dressed people are dancing an elegant tango, the lines of their bodies and their disciplined, abstracted faces in contrast to the rumpled world around them.

The second take, now including the sky and foreground: the wires overhead and the taped area under their feet frame the dancers and re-balance the whole shot. Now it's a disciplined and rather formal shot with some contrasting rumple in the background.

Both great shots!

Zooming to a closer close-up, I also like their clothes and faces as a look-again extension of the tango: the clothes, full of striking lines and textures (check out his shoes! and his rigid stripes, and her soft leather and black legs) and the intensity of their frozen-vicious or -passionate faces.

I also like the rumple: windy, full of scene-grabbing bit players like the dog and the cool woman in the wheelchair, and the colourful clothes and awnings. Almost too much anecdote. Kind of Bruegel.

Posted by molly at October 5, 2010 09:05 AM
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