After a week of really struggling to take anything decent I ended up taking six shots yesterday that I’ll put up over the next couple of weeks – various shots of some graffiti reasonably close by to where we live. Normally, graffiti in the North of England is of the “fuck off”, “daz luvs sharon”, or “I woz ere” variety, so I don’t often come across any that’s worth photographing. On this occasion though I found what seemed to be a partially demolished building – three walls, open to the sky – painted on both sides, … and some of it was really well done.
This shot is a close-up (not a crop ;-) of the one I’m going to put up tomorrow, and is a part of the tag of a larger piece of work. Incidentally, I suspect that there’s probably a word to describe an individual piece of graffiti … I just don’t know what it is ;-)
camera capture date aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO focal length image quality white balance
In North America, I believe an individual piece is variously called a "tag", "throw-up", "piece", "hit", or "burner" (very roughly ordered from lowest complexity to highest, and this is not a complete list)...
Very cool picture and such a bumble bee yellow too!
comment by Maxine at 05:56 PM (GMT) on 1 May, 2004
Well spotted and nicely done!
comment byDarieus at 06:15 PM (GMT) on 1 May, 2004
Love your use of color
comment byJoseph Holmes at 07:24 PM (GMT) on 1 May, 2004
Yeah, whoever said "bumblebee" got it right. I would have guessed it was a code painted by hiway or utility workers if you hadn't said it was grafitti.
After a week of really struggling to take anything decent I ended up taking six shots yesterday that I’ll put up over the next couple of weeks – various shots of some graffiti reasonably close by to where we live. Normally, graffiti in the North of England is of the “fuck off”, “daz luvs sharon”, or “I woz ere” variety, so I don’t often come across any that’s worth photographing. On this occasion though I found what seemed to be a partially demolished building – three walls, open to the sky – painted on both sides, … and some of it was really well done.
This shot is a close-up (not a crop ;-) of the one I’m going to put up tomorrow, and is a part of the tag of a larger piece of work. Incidentally, I suspect that there’s probably a word to describe an individual piece of graffiti … I just don’t know what it is ;-)
camera
capture date
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
focal length
image quality
white balance
11.29am on 30/4/04
f2.5
1/40
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evaluative
50
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In North America, I believe an individual piece is variously called a "tag", "throw-up", "piece", "hit", or "burner" (very roughly ordered from lowest complexity to highest, and this is not a complete list)...
Beautiful exposure and composition here.
That is *the* coolest '4' I've seen in a long time. It almost looks like it has a nose like the Concorde :) X:04 is fantastic.
Really great photo. The yellow color is great and does somthing cool to those black "taggings". Congrats with a good shot!
Very cool picture and such a bumble bee yellow too!
Well spotted and nicely done!
Love your use of color
Yeah, whoever said "bumblebee" got it right. I would have guessed it was a code painted by hiway or utility workers if you hadn't said it was grafitti.
-=-Joe
kewl shot! nice contrast, very crisp. :o)
Andrew: thanks for the definition.
Everyone else: thanks :-)
that 4 is tight so is the 0. X:04 rock on