Detail of Baker of Asilah, Morocco

Cropped about 85% of the image from the original one that made

P.O.W. this week. Enjoy.

Almost perfect; a little soft, and the bottle of water in the middle of the frame is a bit of a nuisance.

this photo is very similar to those taken by Nour who also made photo of the week, I sugest you look at his photos (www.photonour.com)

I love this kind of documentary/journalistic shot. well done.

Biliana

Excellent!

Michael, This is more a portrait of the baker with his goods. Your other offering is an environmental portrait of the goods with the person who baked them. Small, but significant difference and all due to a changed perspective. There's a lesson in there somewhere. To provide these options from the same negeative, gotta love that medium format! The bottle is the only element revealing the current era. Without it this could have been a scene from 500 years ago. (very old Hasselblad:) By the way, congratulations on your very deserving POW. Best, LM.

Ben, unlike Nour this is not a composite (I don't know if all of his are, but the POW from two weeks ago was from three negs), so in that respect we are not alike. His composite, and working of the image, was excellent though.

 

I move nothing in any of my 'found' settings. If I think it's not perfect as is, I keep walking. As all I do on my trips is look for possible award winning images (light, line, form and center of interest, all strong if possible) it means, for me, stopping 1.5 time per day to make an image. That's in 16 hours of looking. I usually net about 50 images, my average, per one month trip- three trips per year. I then spend one year studying, narrowing down the series, figuring cropping, etc., then release 8 to 12 on opening night.

 

With this being only 15% of the neg blown up to 8x8", you can expect some softness. Does that ruin the piece? Blessings, MS

Congratulations for the photo of the week-well deserved.This one is beautiful too but the first one was just perfect.Regards,Judy

Thanks Judy,

This one was just meant to show the detail from the whole image. I did want to make the slice a bit of art in itself, but it's more for those among us that want to go up and put our nose on the art to study the grain, etc..

i liked,very good shot...

What grain with a Hasselblad? and since when is grain a bad thing?I couldnt care about grain or not ,this is just beautiful ,great light and composition ,and that's all it needs to be

Thanks for showing a more detailed close-up, Michael. This is excellent.

only that picture is a composite if you had taken my sugestion and looked at his work in stead of listening to here say perhaps you would know that and be as inpressed as i am

Excellent shot Michael, and a big congrats on POW!!!!!!!

Perfect Michael. A true winner!!!

Congrats!

I hope you bought a bread/cookie thing from the guy for his troubles. :0)

Great photograph, original/lovely colors -very well done !! - wwww.mindstormphotos.com

 

 

 

nice composition if u dont mind i think that bottle disturbs the viewers attention.

 

*****

Very nice!

Great photo!

Great lighting & compositon . It could not be more perfect .

I like your relationship with the baker. Vastly superior to the routine images we see here, degraded by the peeking and sneering "street shooter" mentality.

perfect catch! A story picture. Very nice!

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