Two Old Faces.

In the ancient city of Angkor Thom, deep in the forest of Northern Cambodia, offerings to

Buddhist shrines are made with the help of female guardians. Any comments?

great concept. wish i took this photo :)

I love this shot. Excellent concept and composition.

I really like the way the photo leads you from the womans face up to the statue. I agree that I wish I had taken this shot. :) I have tried these inside looking out shots and I can never get the exposure correct for both the inside and outside. My onlt nitpick is that it is just a little too overexposed along the edge of the statue. Great shot that I would love to have on my wall. 7/7

Great concept.Regards

 

Bahri

Nice one. Quite similar to Mark Standen's shot from the same spot.

Very nice to see you here. Very nice photo. Digilux-2?

 

John (Crosley)

reminds me at a good time! please have a look at:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2745274

best regards

Nice shot of the Bayon !

You did well to control the exposure considering the latitude difference. Nice to have a MOnk there to pose for you ! I only had children shouting "1 dollar please" poseing for me !

Beautiful picture, it seems that many of us have had good time there :)

Regards

Fabrizio

Check out the remix.

Using the foreground and background to create a 'double portrait' (even though one of the figures is in stone) here has been done very effectively. I have checked out what you call 'remix' and find that each photo is a quite different rendering -- both very successful.

 

This is complicated/complex work, suggesting that the photographer was thinking more complex thoughts. It's about impossible to take such a photo as a snapshot -- it had to have been well-planned before pressing the shutter. Exposures must have been difficult, especially at the slow speeds at which the Digilux-2 is mostly noixe-free and to capture the poorly-lighted interior and still expose the lighted exterior well without blowing it. (This seems to be where the Digilux-2 excels, and reason enough for its having been manufactured).

 

Worth more than one look, just for how you have incorporated the 'background' into the subject.

 

Regards,

 

John (Crosley)

 

Thanks John, your comments are spot on as usual!

As I walked into this room I was struck by the the dual portrait possibilities (actually there is another face on the stone which I also photographed in order to get three faces - it just turned out that this was the better one in the end). I had the Digilux set to low contrast and took quite a few shots from several positions bracketing 1/3 stop either way just knowing one would turn out really well. The lady was most cooperative, in fact I think a lot of people take a similar shot, although she did seem to be in an almost meditative state. As you suggested I did have the camera set to 100 ISO because noise is generally unacceptable at higher settings but this is more than compensated for by the f2 (unbelievably sharp) lens and the 2/3 inch sensor's greater depth of field than a full frame 35mm or APS sensor camera. Just looking at the EXIF data on the file I can see that the exposure was 1/50th second at f2.5 and bias of minus 1/3 stop on average metering spot focused on her face.. I may post some out-takes from this series.Cheers, Miles.

an excellent shot, great compostion. It very interesting to hear your comments on how you took the shot.

good seen, good association