{"id":100,"date":"2013-01-02T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-11-26T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T15:42:13","slug":"a-woman-and-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/selected-images\/a-woman-and-a-man\/ ","title":{"rendered":"A Woman and a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web.jpg\" alt=\"A Woman and a Man\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-700-for-Web-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I try hard to get a sense of a story in my images. Not to spell it out but to make people wonder what the story is and let them interpret it as they will. In this case, I suspect there is no connection between the two people. It is a candid shot taken as I was sitting in a caf\u00e9 in Yokohama looking at the world go by and waiting for photo opportunities to present themselves (See the original image below).<\/p>\n<p>She was reading the newspaper and he was someway off telephoning someone. There were many people doing that against the windows in the area, presumably to get a good signal, but I feel the image does invite the viewer to find a connection and make up their own story.<\/p>\n<p>It was taken in the Spring of 2010 on a Nikon D700 with a 24 mm &#8211; 70 mm Sigma lens on 32 mm at \u00a0f\/2.8 and 1\/500 sec. I created the final image first by cropping to the composition I wanted. I then cloned out various distractions; a plastic bag on the chair (which included reconstructing the chair arm), the object on the table, some of the reflection on the floor which I found distracting, and the pole of a parasol which appeared to be coming out of the top of her head. I then used three Nik Filters, Darken \/Lighten Centre (to brighten the image up), Viveza (to desaturate the foliage in parts of the background) and Glamour Glow (which gives the image a slightly dreamy feel). Finally, the image was sharpened using the Photoshop High Pass Filter.<\/p>\n<p>This image has had 18 international acceptances including the RPS International Projected Image Exhibition 2012, two gold medals: Zajecar 2010 (Serbia) and BOR 2011 (Serbia), a ribbon: Kumanovo 2011 (Macedonia) and an Honourable Mention: Toronto 2011 (Canada)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-original.jpg\" alt=\"A-Woman-and-a-Man-original\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-original.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Woman-and-a-Man-original-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I try hard to get a sense of a story in my images. Not to spell it out but to make people wonder what the story is and let them interpret it as they will. In this case, I suspect there is no connection between the two people. It is a candid shot taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}