single photos Immigrant Pathos

The title is perfect, I love the rich colours and the mans turban against the blue bg. The composition is excellent and you have put a lot of thought into it. The frame is also a nice touch, well done.

Proof that photography is not just pointing and shooting at the right moment. Thinking, deciding and knowing how to get results are paramount.

Your photo is excellent!

Beautiful image. The sky seems a little noisy.

This is a problem I see with both digital and film. This particular image is film, Ektachrome 100 VS, scanned at 4000 dpi by Nikon coolscan 4000 ED with digital ice cubed enabled at normal. Of course, as you see it, it is an 800 X 600 jpeg but on screen, there isn't much difference in the sky between this and the 5200 X 3800 tif image. I am not sure why the grainey sky occurs. I certainly see it on some but not all of my film or digital (even at iso 100) images. Any suggestions from the more experienced?

Well composed and shot photo. The color triangle came ou excellent. The picture has some mood to it also.

Well balanced, excelent framing and good sense of oportunity. An excelent photo!

Well composed and good color balance with the far background a bit muted given the right amount of attention to the main subject. well done!

So, I was just standing there on the ferry and this guy walks up and

stands on the deck in just the right place....

If I may quote Richard Blount.

 

"The title is perfect, I love the rich colours and the mans turban against the blue bg. The composition is excellent and you have put a lot of thought into it. The frame is also a nice touch, well done."

 

My only muse is that you don't see many ferries floating down the street.

 

Seriously! A good photo. I am not so sure if the title is so apt or not. After all, the gentleman may be a visitor.

 

For me the photo would have worked better had it been taken square with the railings. This may have made it a bit contrived but I think it would have worked in this case. Many may disagree.

 

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Composition is the key here. Well done.

Excellent colors, and great composition. Could the grain in the sky be a result of haze?

As someone from the Northwest US, i immediately think of the local ferryboats... and i immediately am draw to what seems an unusual sight on one. Nice colors, nice pose (did you have him do that or did you find this shot?), nice shot.

I very much like the composition, but I think the image would work better with a little less PS work, and especially less saturation. The hazy sky and blue mountains look fake, and the dark halo around the turban makes the fellow appear pasted in.

The composition is perfect. The title is great. Love the vivid colors too.

I love the colours of this picture, and the "pose" of the man. Being a candid, adds to the power of the image, and one cannot figure what to change if you could have asked him to pose for you... truly great.

I am puzzled by the inclusion of the left hand side red floater, though... I find my eye going there a bit too often, instead of being riveted on his turbans.

As for the title, this being a nice setting, he being neat, the ferry being no degraded human-carrier, the full impression being of almost a sightseing cruise, I am sorry, but it does not work for me... No real pathos or desperation (to which pictures of generations of boat peoples have sadly educate us) transpires from neither the scenery nor the -solemn?- pose...

As for the scanner, a coolscan IV with no grainy film scans 100Asa tends to give me sometimes the same effect... lots of grain in a picture in the sky, in the next picture on film, same aperture, slightly different view, less sky, things seem perfect again... I am still investigating. An example of the ununderstood effect is here... let me know if you understood something in the meanwhile!

Composition is dead on. Balance is perfect. Love the feeling the image creates.