Daily shooting – a single person and a crowd.
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Two extremes, yet again – a single person, isolated in the frame, and crowded spaces, where you really feel you’re one of a 14 million people with and travel card (estimated).
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The single person shots are quite common – someone intriguing, beautiful or ugly, you’ll find it all, just go on flickr. I have loads in my folio. After all, people are the most interesting subject – at least to other people. Sometimes this isolation of a single person against your given background makes perfect sense, and the individual’s features, whatever they may be, shine and make the image. Sometimes the same isolation will feel a bit forced, and then the cliche shows it’s boring face.
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Crowd scenes are not so popular. There must be a number of factors why that is (small distance, tight space, fast movement of everyone involved, shyness or fear on the account of the potential photographer etc), and I think you can say they are simply more difficult to pull off, both technically and artistically.
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Of course there are also silent and focused crowd shots, like the hands one you see here. Hands are a common topic, I do realise, but that makes them a challenge, plus, I guess it’s my personal thing a bit as well.
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