etiopia Untitled

Girl from Etiopia, photos from my latest travel

Beautiful shot.

A really fine photograph! Beautiful tonality and execution. 7/7!

wwow.w.. bravo.. I love it! great in B&W!

Biliana

Excellent portrait, perfect expression and good texture. 7/7

Very good!

jf

beautiful, innocent stare. a pic full of thousand stories. magnificent B&W.

Great work in B&W. Lovely capture of a beautiful girl.

...what wonderful eyes... you really did an excellent job with this capture, I like how the wall frames the girl, and how she stands on a completely black bacground. Excellent!

Beautiful photo.

This is a beautiful photo. The expression of her face, and her eyes, and haunting. Congratulations. Rick

Very,very good!

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This is no doubt a very good picture. I was disappointed to see no story associated with this picture. I will be very worthwhile if you share, to give a meaning, justice to this picture.

This type of photo has been done a thousand times, there's nothing new to see here. Technically it's very well done, I just don't think it merits a great deal of commentary. Looking at the photographers portfolio I think it highly unlikely that he will comment.

Ben, I understand that photographic compositions are repeated over and over. Landscape, macro, people anything. I have not seen a single photo, of which I don't recognize anything. Instead what all subjects are there in photograph, even though very commonplace items, make it interesting, provided photographer finds a way to do it, or sometimes pure luck, or sometimes it is just a God given beauty.

 

In these eyes, I see that God given gift, I see a sense of quietness, calm or satisfaction. Out in this material world today, we will notice a very few such expressions. It just takes one to the other world. After looking at this picture, I feel the same. That is the power of this photograph.

 

I am not sure why you say that photographe will not comment. But in my opinion if we love to photograph it especially nature and people, and if we don't care for it, then we are missing something...

Sometimes the story behind a photograph is not as interesting as the story the photograph leads you to imagine. Sometimes, not always.

 

Back to the photo: Technically, I'm not sure the amount of wall shown on the right is necessary, but the detriment, if any, is only slight. Not a big deal if it remains as is, or if it is minimized through cropping, but I think the edge should be better scrinted, though, to make it darker. It looks uneven to me in terms of lighting.

Although I find this photograph technically well acomplished it is a cliche for me. I readily understand the notion that much work is repeated and done to death, I'm even guilty of it to a certain extent, but in the case of this photo, it's just the usual poor foreign child with doe eyes, cue plucked heartstrings. All good fodder for HP.

 

It's just my opinion, I'd rather the photograph told us something new.

It is a good, technically sound but unremarkable portrait.

 

I also agree that it is somewhat of a cliche -- common especially with publications like National Geographics (i.e. portraits of the exotic especially in third world countries.

It's interesting to compare this photo with last week's POW. The beach scene was also in danger of being a cliche, but was saved (and more than saved) by the imagination and craftsmanship that went into it - the difficult composition that held me simultaneously amazed (how did he get three kids and a dog to behave like that?) and delighted, the polaroid moment that consciously but lovingly played on our nostalgia, etc etc. This, while a good shot technically - there's not much wrong with it, pace Doug Burgess' comments - doesn't transcend the cliche. It shows us nothing we haven't seen before, and many times. I don't think Salgado would regard this as a keeper. But I don't want to be too hypercritical, it's certainly a good photo.

I like the square, I like the choice of black & white I like the pure aspect of the model? / a cliché?! ? Yes and no, yes because it?s a portrait, exotic (for some), and yes because everything looks like a cliché in our 'blasé' world ? and no because it?s a nice portrait, usually not seen for real and nowadays everything is a cliché: a nude portrait, a fashion shot, a digitally modified pic, a sunset... well it's just a photo, like Cartier Bresson or Magnum staff used to take not so long ago, simple and efficient.

While I don't agree with those saying it's a cliché, meaningless IMO, I also disagree with those saying it?s perfectly taken. I like the square format (imposed by the camera), but I would have chosen a closer crop, as suggested by Doug, reducing the white spaces (namely the wall).

We don't learn much from the background so why not reducing it and imagine the story diving in the eyes of this young beauty. My second agreement with Doug about the relative weight of what photographer says, what image can tell and what viewer is able to imagine?

well, first congrat Vincenzo, for what could be badly interpreted as a souvenir safari-shot from old colony (behind the world cliché here some have problem with western history I guess) and secondly, we/I miss you here Doug!

Maybe so. Here's another cliché (sentence): "Women are all the same" or "Men are all the same". Maybe so, and yet,don't we choose to marry this woman, or this man, rather than anyone else. Why would we do so, if they were really all the same...? :-) Similarly, all pictures like this one ressemble each other in a way, and yet, each picture is unique, and each face is unique. I think there is a lot more to gain in finding the differences between similar pictures, rather than stopping at the similarities. I've never seen THIS little girl before, and she's beautiful, and I love her eyes and expression. So when I look at her, I feel moved, and I don't even think of other "similar" and yet different little girls elsewhere. Beautiful photo. My only suggestion would be to burn this wall slightly... oh, and perhaps also to shoot more unoriginal beautiful little girls like this one. :-) Nice portfolio, by the way, filled with simplicity, humility, and humanity. Best regards.

It's a nice portrait. The wall competes for attention, however, and although it adds important information about her invironment, I think a full body shot including the wall would be more successful. As is, by taking up a full one third of the image, the wall pulls my eye away form the main subject.

I agree with marc's view .. every face is a unique, has its own beauty.human is the only creation have different faces.one way i thank the moments which is freezed and shown.good vincenzo.