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Challenge: Best of 2005 (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Sony DSC-P200
Location: Comitancillo, San Marcos, Guatemala
Date: Dec 11, 2005
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 10, 2006
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Taken in a small Mayan village in Guatemala. The volcano in the background is Volcan Tajumulco, the tallest in Central America. This woman lives next door to my girlfriend; we can occasionally get her to crack a smile while attempting to speak Mam with her. Otherwise she, as with most Guatemalans, is very shy. Life in these small villages is very hard, rural Guatemala is still recovering from a 36 year civil war, and income stratification continues to grow amongst the urban rich, and the rural poor. It has been a complete pleasure to live amongst these noble people.
For this photo, I wanted to use a compisition different than the 3rds rule, and think the woman´s head, cactus, and cloud line up nicely. Post processing includes selective desaturation, some slight cloning along the edges of the woman to get rid of blank pixels (I really need more practice on this), USM, resize for web, and some slight dodging and burning. I hope you enjoy the image, it is the first I have submitted to a challenge.
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02/02/2006 04:31:43 AM |
| Thanks for all the comments guys! |
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01/28/2006 10:16:37 AM |
| Nice isolation of the color. The edges are quite lovely. |
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01/26/2006 04:45:33 PM |
| I like your compositon, but I think I would prefer either all BW or all color. JMO |
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01/26/2006 02:41:59 AM |
| Black and white photos, with part of the image in colors, always pleases me, and this one is done really well... |
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01/22/2006 06:16:05 PM |
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01/22/2006 12:34:20 PM |
| good use of selective desat. nicely composed |
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01/20/2006 03:42:15 AM |
| I think the woman is a bit close to the bottom of the frame. I think there should be a little more space around her. |
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01/19/2006 01:28:48 AM |
| Love the contrast between the color image and the background. It could use a bit more cropping, though. The mountain is nice, but it wasn't needed to convey this wonderful image. I kind of like the village idea, which you overlooked in the picture because you were drawn to the mountain. |
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01/18/2006 07:00:01 PM |
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01/17/2006 03:06:06 PM |
| Great choice of selective desat. Nice composition. Very emotive and interesting image. Hope it does as well as I think it will! |
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01/16/2006 09:43:01 AM |
| Nice use of selective desaturation. |
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01/16/2006 07:57:23 AM |
| I would sooooo love to see all of this in color |
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01/15/2006 09:15:00 PM |
| This is a wonderful picture, but I'm wondering why you went with the selective desat? It looks like the whole pic was rich with color. |
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