A Portrait of a Tuareg ( tribe)

The Tuareg People ( tribe) are mostly nomads, they wander with their cattle, and comming once in a while to the city to buy products. One of them told me that it takes him a month!! of walking to come to the city..As they wander in the desert, they are having a special head cover which protects them from the heat,(usually very colorful) and is demonstrated here.

 

Thanks for your impressions, Pnina

Thanks, Pnina

Fine melange of colours!

Beautiful portrait . I love the contrast between the color of the head cover and the brownish color of the desert

Beautiful portrait,I think painters could'nt have choose better for a color.Very fine photograph again.

Excellent portrait. The skin tones are particularly good. To me the look away from the camera seems to speak of the distance we are from his world.

A colorful portrait of Tuareg youth,Pnina.

nice take Pnina...

great facial expression, pnina. beautiful colours as well. good job here.

A very nice portrait.

Come on Pnina! The entire outline of this gentleman is surrounded by BAD editing artifacts..The colors are flat. NOT a good picture. It is clear that many of the folks looking at this picture are NOT looking but using this platform as a low-level chat room.

Excelente retrato del Tuareg, color y composicion especial, un cordial saludo Pnina.

He looks cool Pnina.

John Falkenstine, this photo was printed and recieved GOOD! critique from one of the high quality, and known photography teacher here.no artifacts at all. so this is your point of view, you are entitled to it, but others are entitled for thiers exactly like you.

 

Thank you for your visit and comment.

Pnina, This is a very portrait, but the trees in the background do bother me. Why not crop it much tighter, just above his forehead.

See my excerpt clearly showing the artifacts resulting from poorly done dodging. Your mate raters are giving you misinformation on the quality of your images.

Pnina, I like this shot - a most expressive face. I have stopped being fussed by artifacts. The PN compression process seems to often introduce its own.

Jeff, That image was printed to the size of 30/45 cm ! no artifacts !!, so I think you are right about the compression .

 

Claud,I have decided to leave the trees behind , as that is the real landscape he lives in. but thanks for your suggestion, it is for sure a possibility.

 

Thanks all of you. Pnina

Well Pnina, I think John needs to not be so involved in his own self importance, we can all have our post become victims of some technical difficulty which degrades our images. I had one of my early post that looked much worse than this. I personaly see no reason to be very nit picky about such minor flaws which could be corrected before an actual print was made.....Jim

I like the original version because it shows how cloth covers his head. A nice portrait.

Thanks Jim and Hiroya.

 

Jim, as I wrote before it was already printed and critisized. The print is flawless,and I'm not going to deal with it anymore...

Thanks for your nice comment.

 

Hiroya, I also like it as is , thanks

 

Pnina

For me, a good photograph is one that will first attract the viewer to see it, then it will raise a question to the viewer's mind and will give him/her an answer. A good photograph is not merely one of which every pixel is good. Or else, according to the latter pseudo-definition, all the photographs of the pioneer masters would be bad photographs.

 

Who is this man? Where does he come from? What is he thinking? How many songs does he know? Would I have liked to meet him and live with him? This photo did attract my attention (blue), did raise questions and, I think, did give me some ansewrs (traditional clothing, great looking healthy young skin, absence of stupid smile) - in a quite original way, more answers than I would expect from an ordinary portrait (trees). Although Claude's suggestion adds to aesthetics, the trees make the picture more informative.

Thanks for nicely presenting your point of view.I agree with you that first an image has to "talk" to you when you first see it. Either to your aesthetic qualities, or the significance it port in it, that arises thoughts and questions to ponder about, OR, all of them together...

 

I still think that technical details are importent, as well as lab knowledge( which in the digital era is PS,) . There are photos that I see and are touching the qualities, but are needing some change or correction( imo of course), I will try to suggest a solution in the best of my ability, if I know it.

 

I'm really open to critique as long as it is done politely and in a positive language!...

 

What I try to do all the time is to enhance my knowledge in both, the significance and technical abilities.

About Claude suggestion, I have thought about it before uploading and decided to leave it as is, because I think in that case it is more authentic.

 

I appreciate your comment, Manolis

I agree that technical excellence is essential to experts and professionals. For the amateur viewers - who are also the potential buyers - the subject matter, the information the photograph provides, the feelings and emotions it produces are what directs the hand to the pocket. Tomorrow, cameras and software will produce perfect photographs by default, all alone. What technology will never be able to do (and is in my opinion the primary responsibility and merit of the photographer) is to decide WHAT to shoot, WHEN and from WHICH ANGLE. So, please, let's not talk about individual pixels; or I will be bored to death.

such a nice work & ppl still bothered about pixels etc etc. great capture, Pnina!