 | Discussion on: Image 664 - "Woman, Chenini, Tunisia" |
| Discussion on: Image 664 - "Woman, Chenini, Tunisia" |
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| Discussion, revisions and constructive criticisms of Image 664 - "Woman, Chenini, Tunisia" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #1 April 20th 2006 02:12:41 | Great find. Very strong image with the face, tattoos, colors, .... Good exposure and focus. I don't care for the 'smack dab center' positioning of your subject. I think the best shot might have been holding her to the left side of the fame and balancing her out with more of the interesting gray rock. I tried a few thing for you to consider. I cropped hard on the left to move her out of the center and took a little off the top. This lets her more dominate the frame IMO. I used the Shadows tool to bring her eyes and forehead out more. Burned in the light patch at the top of her shawl. Bumped up contrast and sharpened. Is that a tattoo on her nose or something else. We have several Native American tribes around here and in at least one of them the women practice facial tattooing. I've never seen anyone tattoo their nose. |
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| Christopher Kean (chriskean1) Msg: #2 April 20th 2006 07:50:44 | Thanks--I prefer the cropped version per your suggestion. I don't have access to the other photo I took of her here (Helsinki) so can't tell what is on her nose. I thought myself very lucky to have found this woman still living on the hilltop at Chenini and willing to let me take a couple of photos, so much so that I didn't mind paying (which I almost never do otherwise). Then, at the end of the day, I was looking through my LP Tunisia guide to plan the next day and found a photo of the same woman therein. She seems to have a good business going. Paid or unpaid, I don't usually like to spend too much time framing a close-up shot of a subject, as they tend to get uncomfortable pretty quickly and it shows in the resulting photo--but I should've altered the framing afterward as you have done; I agree that usually centering on a subject doesn't give you the best shot. Except when it does, of course... Thanks again. CK | |||||||||||||||||||||
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