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mareseye (1209) 2005-05-20 8:24

Salut Laetitia,
On est loin du :"Salut, ça va ?" qu'on pratique par chez nous. D'aucuns ont appelé ça les salamalèques, moi je trouve que c'est le signe de sociétés où on prend encore le temps de se rencontrer, où on ne court pas perpétuellement après la montre parce qu'on est pressé...pour faire quoi, au juste ?
Je ne sais pas à quoi ser la construction au premier plan. En tout cas, l'image est très bien vue. Bravo,
Mare

Paker (2650) 2005-05-20 11:34

I am not sure about this composition. the couple greets in the background but we have this unidentified wooden structure as the focal point of this image. What makes it even more disturbing for me is the tree behin the wooden structure and the donkey behind that tree. Just too many things superimpose one another in this composition. You do have a nice scene - I just think it is not very well captured.
regards,
Krzysztof

kinginexile (2598) 2005-05-20 14:27

Good work on composition, Laetitia, it is not easy to deal with complex (geometry) natural shapes as a foreground and keep the background strong enough to be relevant as well.

But!:
(not a teacher, a fellow student here)
the downside of such tighter DOF is that the expression one gets in situ, from finding focussed interest in the forground object or outcrop, is not always conveyed back to the viewer. I used to do that often, it looks good (and you know exactly what you intended to come up with), but to me more than to people who saw my shots, unless the object has an intrinsec value, culturally like a Buddha, or esthetically (flower bunch with blurred temples in background, for ex..), and people like Buddhas or flowers :-). That's what I would call getting cute with the camera aperture.
here, the blur is not too bokeh, the silhouettes, the human element, therefore important in a bare image, are discernable, but I wonder if they should not be part of the DOF in focus. I may add that doing so, would sometimes require a different framing, so as not creating 2 parts of the image both fighting for equal attention, which usually neutralizes a shot. Not quite the case, here, anyway.

Also, the big trunk, a very interesting and strong feature behind the outcrop, well that's the problem. It's there and both eats up interest and is eaten up by being half-hidden. That's a no-no, IMO, the equivalent of "ampoule (accent aigu)" in literature.

Gee, Laetitia, you are served with extremely lively, exotic and rich scenes, great field for photography, and improving. I really enjoy looking at your efforts, can relate too.

Leonie (8809) 2005-05-22 5:22

Hello!! Laetitia, :-)
J'aime bien cette photo...les couleurs, ces pierres un peu partout parterre et l'air saturé de chaleur et de poussière..les tuniques de ces hommes sont belles...une belle ambiance capturée et désolée je suis à sec jusqu'à 2main! Bon week end!

Léonie