Tuesday 14 February 2012

Matt Waples - Family




                                 Cropped

                                 Un-Cropped (Like I really need to explain this..) I took out the cheesy poof!


About a week or so ago I was taking the Subway from Kipling to Younge, and I happened to notice a couple sitting right next to me holding hands. At first nothing struck me as strange, but then I noticed the expressions that these people had. They seemed as if they wanted absolutely nothing to do with each other, not exchanging one word or glance throughout the Subway ride. I thought to myself, how can these people appear be so miserable with each other, but still hold hands as if it was all just okay. A few days ago, I decided that I had to re-create my memory for this theme. 

In a way, there is a personal reflection in the photograph, of my "current" family; my father and step mother, who could have just as easily have been the couple that I saw on the Subway that day.


**I think I'm gonna go with the cropped version. But I've gotta rescan the negative first!
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10 comments:

  1. WEDNESDAY.MPS1614 February 2012 at 17:51

    really great shot matt, and I love the story attached to it to, it gives the picture a very interesting perspective. I love the colours, temperature ext. buutt the only thing bugging me a bit is the left side, on the floor to the right of the seat, (aka the line on the ground), i'd get rid of that. :p

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  2. WEDNESDAY.MPS1614 February 2012 at 17:52

    Written by me... Giordana! ^^

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  3. Lucy14 February 2012 at 18:24

    dsalkdjas I can't even. Matt. I love this photo so much. Tbe lighting, the emptiness around them. Their expressions are spot on. I wouldn't change anything. You can try cropping out the ceiling just to see what it looks like. But yeah. It's wonderful.

    - Lucy Lu

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  4. Lucy14 February 2012 at 18:25

    And the girl's reflection! So good. Did they notice you taking the photo?

    - Lucy again.

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  5. Matt Waples14 February 2012 at 18:44

    Thanks so much guys!! I'm really happy with how it turned out too! I'll try taking that line out and see what I think (you mean the like white random thing, right? I think it was a cheese puff now that I think about it...)
    Lucy, I looked at it cropped quickly, I like it, but I like the bar and the light in there too. I'm gonna upload a cropped version to this post and I'll see what everyone thinks!
    And a clarification for everyone, this wasn't the couple, it was staged as I slightly mention in the post. I shot it with my Bronica on a tripod at something like 1/15th of a second, If I would have shot the couple I doubt I would have gotten a sharp photo

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  6. WEDNESDAY.MPS1614 February 2012 at 18:51

    I'd also edit out the people in the other train (to reinforce the emptiness in the relationship)!
    Giordiee

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  7. WEDNESDAY.MPS1614 February 2012 at 18:52

    **and by people i mean only the head you can see in the window of the door lol

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  8. Kristi Smith14 February 2012 at 20:58

    I really like how if you look at the reflection of the girl she is looking into the camera, but her real self is looking at the window, it's a detail that really adds something interesting to the photo !

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  9. WEDNESDAY.MPS1615 February 2012 at 10:24

    You know what! I don't think i like the cropped one, i think i like the full framed one better. Giordie

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  10. Alex16 February 2012 at 17:19

    I love this Matt! It looks too good, I thought it was staged! I personally like the full frame one, too... but that may just be my personal distaste for those particular types of aspect ratios talking lol.
    -alex h.

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