Quiet Corner
"Quiet Corner" was shot in 2017 on Kodak Gold 400, a personal favorite film for me. At the time, I was using a Contax G2 and the associated 28mm f/2.8 lens, a stellar performer let down here by my uncalibrated (at the time) scanner. The film was self-developed using one of the C-41 kits available at the time (potentially one by Rollei, although I do not recall). I snapped this photo while walking through Times Square on a particularly bright day upon seeing the distinctive L-shaped light illuminating this man. Composition sketch, showing the strong set of intersecting lines framing the man using his phone While there's a lot of bright regions and colors throughout the frame, the strong contrast of the L-shaped "reverse shadow" and the lines of the building and sidewalk around the man at (33%, 33%) keeps the eye rooted around the subject. The purplish hue to the shadows may have been an artifact of improper processing. I was not, and still am not the most fon