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Sleeping while standing... or leaning... is a skill I've always been keen to acquire. Flickr user chrisindc's nicely framed shot provides helpful pointers in that quest. Perhaps consumption of pizza - or whatever is in the shopping bag - is a more important element than I'd realized. (EXIF)
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New York may have better pizza, and LA more boob jobs, but they'll never top DC in practitioners of the fine art of loitering.
Sleeping while standing... or leaning... is a skill I've always been keen to acquire...
Sure, just become a homeless alcoholic, keep it up for a few decades, and someday you too will have the mad "sleep-standing" skills of this photo's subject!
Looks like a semi-seated position to me. Maybe the chain-link atop the knee wall goes in a little where her/his butt is?
That person is carrying his spine in that plastic bag.
You're looking at BONELESS MAN. Like boneless chicken, but this man has other bones, just not a spine.
it's kind of impressive and sad all at once.
Exactly. Just like an alcoholic organ grinder monkey with the DTs. You want to give the poor guy a coin but you just can't get past all the vomiting.
YEAH DIG! CONGRATS!
Decent capture (although part of me feels that a man should be able to grab an urban nap without the paparazzi documenting it). It's too bad about the photoshopped black and white. B&W film is one thing -- that's just how the film is made -- taking away the color from a color digital shot is another. Any time the first thing I visualize on looking at the image is the photographer sitting at his computer fiddling with Photoshop, it kind of spoils it for me.
A lot of digital cameras these days have a black & white setting on them and they have to fiddle w/ a computer anyway in order to upload the pic.
I guess this commentary has kind of spoiled the pic for me.
If imagining the artist actually creating his or her art is so painful, it must be almost impossible for you to even look at paintings or sculptures then, right?
If there are technical reasons that digital black & white is inferior to the "analog" version, fine, but the "no tampering" purity you seem to be looking for is a complete crock. Do you also dismiss Ansel Adams' Yosemite pictures because he used darkroom tricks to alter the light and exposure settings while printing?
what is the difference in processing black and white and loading black and white flim? Is it worse to picture a photographer working in Adobe Lightroom then someone in a darkroom? Are you the kind of guy to invest in Blockbuster video now?
The whole "purist" argument against photographers altering their photographs is ridiculous.
Photographers have been altering their photos since the art was invented. Long before Photoshop was invented, photographers used dodging and burning techniques to produce results that didn't come from camera settings. And long before digital cameras, many photographers shot only using color film, and then chose to print some of those negatives in black and white.
Dad!!!! You are so embarrassing.
I love it when people bring up comparisons to great artists like Ansel Adams to justify someone's photoshopping. Anyway, I just said photoshopped B&W spoils an image for me, I didn't say it should spoil it for everyone. Technique is great, but if it's the first or main thing I notice, it's not so great. For me.