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Great color, perfect timing.

I like the mood in this shot. The arc frames the children beautifully. I say well done.

 

Rgds

Einar

WOW! This is wonderful. It has more the feeling of a painting than a photograph. Cheers, J

Beautiful setting, nice tone and light....the only one thing that spoils is the electric box on the wall.

Simply superb! The natural frame is really appealing. To me, cropping the above

rocks and window(?) will be good. Even though it is simply superb.

Cheers

Tiru

Just perfect - moment, light, colors. Very sharp image.

Thank you for sharing.

Great

Excelent!!!

Magnificent photo

I love it....I love that it looks like they still have privacy while you are shooting, the lighting is beautiful. Colors, the ledge up top. It is a wonderful composition. It's "playlikin" in Texas and they need lots and lots of it. Your eye was spot on here.

J

The orange tones make this so warm and sunny, the way you have bathed the subjects in gentle golden light is magnificent. The casual posture of the girls is relaxed and carefree. The way you have framed them with the arch is perfect, and then the way the arch is repeated in the doorway, lovely. The effect you have achieved is polished, obviously you are a skilled artist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

... the technical and artistic merits have been adequately covered by others, but what strikes me so about this shot is that forty years from now, these same three will be sitting in exactly the same place, with exactly the same body language, and you could take this picture again. It is a wonderful thought and a wonderful idea.

Claudio,

 

A wonderful shot. My only negative comment is the electric box on the wall (as someone has mentioned) and I would have cropped the area above the arch or would have done some serious burning of that area. My eye keeps going to the isolated brightness above the arch. Very nice job!

 

Mark

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This is a sweet scene, well framed and expressively lit. The shadowed foreground makes the openness of the scene behind it feel alive. It helps focus the viewer there as well. The gradation of the shadow leads us into the light. The height of the architecture is nicely emphasized by the vertical format of the photo, and both seem to work well to give the children a sense of place and a sense of scale, also innocence surrounded by the hard bricks (yet softened by the soft curves) of the structure, almost as if these kids are protected.

It's the presentation of a nice scene of young childhood and doesn't require much of me as a viewer. The viewer is passive here. The photographer is outside the world of the children (by stance and perspective).

IMO, the color of the light and the skin of the girls could still be warm without being so artificially orange/yellow. It's certainly not as overdone as many afternoon glows but it could still use a little nuancing of white balance to feel more organic.

This isn't the type of photograph I'd normally comment on, but for some reason, I like it a lot. I don't think it's a remarkable photograph, but it does hold my interest longer than a lot of other photographs do. The children are young, but seem totally engaged in conversation or discussion. The photograph makes me want to know what they are talking about. I also like what appears to be a somewhat skeptical expression on the face of the little girl in the middle. The photograph is nicely composed with lots of fine details...and I do like details. I'll add that it seems just a bit oversaturated on the red end of the scale to me, but that could be my monitor, or it could be just me. It isn't anything that takes away from the photograph as a whole. As I said, I like it.

I also like this image a lot and I do appreciate the remarkable light and shade here, the children are a live and very energetic which makes this image talk and communicate with its viewers, the tones here are another very powerful element and enhancing the quality of the appearance and adding a great impact to the well thought off composition.
Having said all that, I do find the upper portion which I cropped do not help this image at all, but thats just my personnel opinion.
An image well deserve been selected for this week discussion and thanks also for the Elves with their outstanding choice.

A very cute shot with some nice warm tones of the little girls chatting about whatever kids talk about. I like the scene under the arch. I don't find any of the partial 2nd photo above the arch is needed. It hurts the photo with it's distraction

I am sorry the correction I made did not get itself on the page, here it is.

Exactly. I much prefer Rashed's crop. Some will call it more sterile. It's much cleaner & focused on the subjects. It doesn't pull the viewer's eye to the top where nothing relevant exists

Yes. I'm one that calls the crop more sterile. It takes the interest and life of the context out of the photo. The subject is strong enough that whatever dalliance my eye has in the above spaces is not a distraction but just a moment to wander. The sense of the arch is much lost with this crop. The crop, to me, is not just more sterile, it's more inactive and boring. It's not a photo I would spend much time with, sort of cute and then gone, but the completion of the archway gives it much more interest to me than the perfectly framed, much more typical, approach. It loses a layer of space in which the imagination of the viewer can play. It also loses an important sense of height.

Absolutely delighful.

My first hit on this image is that it is a pleasant and approachable image. The warm colors have a positive psychological impact and the setting is interesting enough to warrant at least a bit of a pause to look.

The payoff of this pause to look is that engagement between the three little girls. There is something about it that just seems to harken to a time when 3 old women will be sitting in this same place having this same conversation. A conversation that is multifaceted the way only old friends who know each other completely can engage in. The knowing expressions of those sitting just seem way beyond their years. (I have to admit that I like the fact that this wasn't another shot of 3 old women in old world garb, but a more contemporary presentation of life in old world surroundings)

The open area above the arch would generally seem to be superfluous or just odd, but here in this closed scene I think it works to be a release. A symbol of hope or possibility for these girls and youth in an otherwise closed or limited or maybe even oppressive environment. (not suggesting this place is oppressive but more a reference to how one might read the symbolic nature of the image)(Also, having just read what was posted above here, I don't think it is distracting and agree with Fred that the main scene is strong enough to hold us and the focus in the crop is not only sterile but predictable.)

The plants above, on the arch, seem precarious and maybe create a bit more tension in this area. I think they also minimize the effect of that blown out stone behind them in the upper left.

The color balance on the girls really doesn't bother me and seems natural for being in that place but I do think things got a bit overcooked in the upper left corner and along the right side of the arch. Probably from some vignetting in PS--normally if this is done with curves or levels, a change in blend mode from "normal" to "luminosity" will decrease the saturation caused by these actions back to the original tones, which seem fine to me in the other areas.

i don't often look for this sort of thing, but as I wondered how the image would change if the dark framing were opened up I noticed what appears to be some fairly significant over sharpening--with tell tale white lines at edges--most prominent along the right edge of the arch but elsewhere as well-- and the over texturing of the dark stone that is in shadow. I think these areas could be allowed to be more soft without affecting the image whereas this sharpening is distracting.

Overall, I think it is a nice image and one that serves its purpose.