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Critique of a series of the beverage bottles in Havana

Critique of a series of the beverage bottles in Havana

From the course: Photo Critique of the Week

Critique of a series of the beverage bottles in Havana

- Finding that picture, shooting it and then working it to make it better is a basic philosophy of mine when I'm shooting on the street. Hi I'm Steve Simon, the passionate photographer and welcome to another edition of photo critique of the week. This week we're going to look at a couple of examples from Havana, Cuba which is one of my favorite destinations to photograph. And the first image that I wanted to show to kind of tell you about that philosophy in a little more depth is of this soft drink vendor on the streets of Old Havana. Even for the locals that I was talking to they say that this is not so much of a common sight and a little bit of a throwback to back in the day when these guys with their colored bottles would be everywhere in the city. Photographically because of the colors I thought yeah this is definitely worth shooting. As you can see that's what I did. I started shooting and I kept changing my composition a little bit. It evolved. Different people were also making…

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