Emotion Veteran's Day 2002 The Moving Vietnam Memorial Wall

The moving Vietnam Memorial Wall was in our city this week and ended

today with a very moving ceremony... This young girl was interesting

partly because she was too young to have known anyone there.

Nice shot. I wish there was a touch more reflection of her face in the wall. Lighting looks pretty harsh.

I do agree that the lighting seems too harsh and the photo over all is soft. Perhaps the camera focused on the wall, but it's so dark I can't tell.

OK, it's great to hear that the lighting is bad, but how would y'all fix it??? Without a solution, it's only a criticism :) Help me out here.

well there a few ways that i would have tried this (assuming i had the time and presence of mind).

 

first would try exposing for the reflection in the wall (with tripod). this would of course grossly over expose the subject but would make for an intersting pic if she was cropped out and only seen in reflection.

 

also, try another time of day. probably later in afternoon. but this depends on the orientation of the wall.

 

also, could try from other side of subject using the harsh light as a backlight and fill with flash or just expose for face.

"OK, it's great to hear that the lighting is bad, but how would y'all fix it??? Without a solution, it's only a criticism :) Help me out here."

 

I think people are helping you out here. Next time you take a photography you'll have learned, yes? Granted, there's not much you can do with this one beyond the usual Photoshop hacking.

Turn down the sun a little!

 

The crop has some symetry (which is good), it also gets you thinking "what's this all about" (which is also good). It's hard to know whether you could have waited for someone in other more muted colours to show up...but that would help.

 

It all depends on what you want from this shot, the dark RHS is fine for advertising but tends to make the shot slope to the right and seems out of balance.

 

I would have waited for someone in darker clothes to show up, asked them if I could take this same shot and exposed for the wall to lift the detail a little.

 

Very white objects in very bright sunlight will 'burn' and virtually ruin any shot. Here in the UK we don't get very bright sunshine (except this week - hooray!!!) so the light is a little softer. Even so white tends to ruin colour pics - but great in B&W.

 

Hope this is of some use - Drew