morocco Baker of Asilah, Morocco

This is a great photo. I love the colours, subject matter, and composition. My only criticism is the water bottle. It just does not belong. Nice shot. Cheers!

Absolutely a great capture and a fantastic post processing job!

 

Inspite of > 50% of the frame being dark and without any discernable image, it still remains eye catching.

 

The bottle tells two things:

 

1. Unlike Rembrandt times, Portra VC can record blue as the complimentary dye is there.

 

2. Shows the distortion from the Distagon lens used.

 

A shot taken without the bottle with the same set up or with the bottle and a standard lens like Planar 80mm would have avoided the distortion bit.

I like the plastic bottle. Tells people what time in the history of mankind it was taken (imagine looking at this 300 years from now).

 

I don't care much for the Rembrandt look, though. I guess I'm tired of looking at Rembrandts (being a painting myself). For that alone I would not give very high marks for originality.

 

For the same reason I don't care much about the "how Rembrandt would have..." kind of discussion. I don't really care how he would have done it. I only care about how you have done it.

 

I would give high marks for aesthetics, though.

the subject couldn't deal with what was going on--especially the demands of an extended exposure--and all that DOF makes it look as if everything was staged. the perfect layout of offerings and unnatural pose destroy the whole point of capturing something "real". given how contrived the actual scene looked, it made no sense not to perfect it by removing the bottle and instructing the "model" properly. moreover, if you wanted to keep the bottle in there, some sense of irony or comparable artistic statement would have made it work.

It's been an honor to read so many positive posts and receive so many congratulatory comments from absolute strangers. I'm lucky that my image was picked as there are dozens of equally great images posted here weekly, as we all know.

 

May all your shooting be passionate and your enthusiasm for this great art the good Lord has blessed us with be unparalleled. Thanks to the staff for your hard work. MS

Oh, this is a classic. How intentional was the modern execution of a renaissance style? Very Rembrandt, very chiaro scuoro. Caravaggio would have loved it. This is so different because it almost steps out of the photographic medium - it's so unlike most other photographs because its atmosphere and realism suggest more than something that is 'captured for posterity' or 'artisticly shot' (I'm not putting myself over very well). This is a very real, timeless study of character and setting that seems very alive - a piece of real life presented, but not contained. A piece of everyday beauty and balance that presented itself to the lens.

 

The perspective is stunning - almost too good (was there any arrangement of the ojects in the foreground? Admittedly, the picture has a slight righthand bias, but that's not a problem - it makes you explore the picture once the impact has subsided and there's lots to explore.

 

Everything else goes without saying. The light, colour and balance are perfect - if they weren't, I wouldn't be spending so much time rattling on about subject and composition.

 

I'd frame this for my dining room - how much for a copy?

 

Outstanding. Be proud. If this isn't an all time 7/7, there's no justice.

There is nothing to add, just to admire! It gives me lust to pack my bag and travel. Karl

There is nothing to add, just to admire! It gives me lust to pack my bag and travel. Karl

Wow, how fun it was to read all the comments again, and see so much high praise, and 7's. Thanks all. It makes all the hard work that goes into travel photography that much more palatable (the wife quit going with me, calls it 'BOOT CAMP'! I shall continue, not that I haven't been, as this series was some 30 trips around the world ago. MS

Thanks again folks for your support!!! ;/)

Love going thru these old posts and seeing so many great responses.

MS