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  • #2
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    Hindsight is a great thing and but completely useless while taking the actual shot. I've got to say that unfortunately it does not work for me. Something is missing. Although on a nicer note, I love the idea of what you are trying to capture

    Maybe a closer shot from an angle further to the left of where you were. Maybe slightly desaturated as well.

    I doubt you can retake it though.


  • #3
    311
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    thebaz wrote:
    Found this old photo of an old man in Thailand countryside -- any thoughts

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/396002468/

    Where you talking to the guy ? ,did he lose family in Tsunami or anything.
    He does look like he's on his own alright ,you can barely see him.
    Dudging by the state of the place it looks like he's whats left of the damage.


  • #4
    rabbitinlights
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    _Brian_ wrote:
    Dudging by the state of the place it looks like he's whats left of the damage.

    LOL, You have obviously never been in rural thailand!!


  • #5
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,742 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    _Brian_ wrote:
    Where you talking to the guy ? ,did he lose family in Tsunami or anything.
    He does look like he's on his own alright ,you can barely see him.
    Dudging by the state of the place it looks like he's whats left of the damage.

    He hadn't a word of English -- but i saw him a couple of times by the roadside, maybe its just a memory that works for me !


  • #6
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    thebaz wrote:
    He hadn't a word of English -- but i saw him a couple of times by the roadside, maybe its just a memory that works for me !
    I'm not so sure mate, I think you were on to something and you might have seen it just did not capture it so other could see it.

    I do that all the time. Something works great in my head but then you take it home and some how its just not right later. Its cause I just didnt quite spend the time, think about it enough, lack of experiance or simply lack talent.


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  • #7
    DotOrg
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    the main problem is the composition. having the main subject in the very centre of the image means the eye doesn't wander around the image naturally.

    read this

    also, i'd have got down to his eye level rather than the typical shooting from the standard, standing up point of view


  • #8
    sineadw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    My eye just keeps going to the Pepsi signs. I can see what you were trying to do (I think?) but maybe you tried to get too much in? The background is very 'busy', and IMHO takes away from the subject rather than adding to it. In hindsight I'd have gone for a tighter frame, and yep - eye level. Maybe a different angle to get rid of the signs. Or if you were going for some sort of contrast thing with eastern poverty versus western culture then just him and the signs. Its a nice shot though :)


  • #9
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,742 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    DotOrg wrote:
    the main problem is the composition. having the main subject in the very centre of the image means the eye doesn't wander around the image naturally.

    read this

    also, i'd have got down to his eye level rather than the typical shooting from the standard, standing up point of view

    i always focus at centrepoint, maybe i'll try using the off centre powerpoints to focus , to see if it increases interst -- i still like this one, although i should probably have focused in more on my mate .


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