Begging At The Temple, colour version.

This is a colour version of the same photo previously shown in black & white. I've played

with the shadows/highlights in order to reveal more detail.

href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3572925">Please compare with

this version.

Comments welcome!

Thanks for sharing the colour version with us - very nice move.

I will not tell you witch one is better - it very much depends on what the viewer searches for and wants to see. May be I would prefer this colour one. A honest documentary photo (a sort of National Geographic species).

The BW version is indeed more pathetic one, but that perhaps is the problem: it instills the idea of a "big thing", a "big drama". But frankly: there wasn't anything dramatic happening, even not on an emotional level, was it.

Technically I would very much back the idea of toyig a bit with the left eye area (from viewers point of view) - I am sure there is a trace of the man's eye in the photo's data matrix and it should be possible to bring it out at least a bit. The same applies to the BW version, I did not realise it yesterday because I was more thinking about the highlights.

Regards. MJ

Excellent documentary/journalist photograph!!!

B:l:ana

Your black and white rendition of this photograph renders it as a much different photograph -- as noted above, this is more a National Geographic version - while the B&W version raises it to a higher plane, particularly because of the increased contrast and the use of light which ties together the composition, which I remarked on in 'comments' under the B&W version.

I am interested, since you are obviously so briliant (recognition of truth, not a smarmy or snarky put-down) in how you so easily 'balance' the light in the front with an off-setting light area in the rear. This achieves a balance and at the same time a complexity that is very appealing . . . and is the sign of a very active mind processing at lightning speed as a photographic opportunity presents itself - instinctual processing that comes from studying photographic and photography then understanding your equipment . . . and then having good 'instincts' and that razor sharp mind.

H C-B had that ability to visualize 'on the run' as he called his work 'Images a la Sauvette' or 'images on the run' or 'stolen images' which indicates the pressure he was under to take the image and compose them AT THE MOMENT and to press the shutter.

It doesn't matter how many failures, so long as you get one good photo worth keeping, but as I recall, you had many good photos . . . and certainly are destined for many more good ones.

Best wishes.

John (Crosley)

(Oh, and I'd search for info on that left - to us - eye, and see if it can be added on a rescan.)