Thursday, 5 March 2009

WSJ Photo Journal: Afghanistan

Photo © Ahmad Masood/Reuters-All Rights Reserved

Not to be outdone by the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal published this striking photograph of a burqa-clad woman walking in an old Kabul bazaar. Ahmad Masood of Reuters most probably spot metered the brightness of the woman's clothing to throw the rest of the background in darkness...an effective technique to highlight primary subject such as this one.

CROSBY STREET | 65:24 Aspect Ratio

One of my favorite streets in Soho, NYC, is Crosby Street. Some of its buildings have walls always covered in “illegal” posters and ads, whi...