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I made a version with higher contrast. How do you like it?

Thanks, actually I burned in the man because I wanted the bull to be the dominant "personality" in the picture. I did not pose them.

What do you think of this one?

What do you think of it?

... but I knew I had to take a picture of it. Your comments and rating is welcome for this

documentary photo taken in August 2002 in a farming district in Lopburi province,

Thailand.

This is from a slow local train in the countryside in Thailand. I did not

hide the fact that I took pictures, as you can see the boy was curiously

watching me as put the camera on my knee for a lower perspective and

took the picture without looking through the viewfinder. Your

rating/opinion of this picture is welcome.

Something about this scene reminded me of the classic movie "Sound of

music". I half expected to see Julie Andrews running around on the

hilltops. Anyway, how would you rate this picture?

How would you rate this picture?

I like this (candid?) portrait. You have isolated his head so that all interest is concentrated on the man. His profile looks good and his expression is pleasing. Now for the nitpicking: His skin came out a tad dark for a caucasian. Also, I would consider darkening those out-of-focus lights, one that is partly visible above his head, and another under his chin. But in conclusion this is a good picture.

You're doing great! The bird stands out nicely against the dark background. Lovely colours. Keep on posting.

I saw this scene from my kitchen window while having breakfast. I had nothing to do with the carpenters, it was my neighbour who had hired them to expand his house. So the situation was not arranged (by me). What I did was to grab my tripod and camera gear and go out on the balcony, which overlooked these rooftops since I was in a taller building, and grab the shot. :-)

 

Let me add something about the blue colour. The time before dawn or after sunset is actually quite blue, in particular if the sky is unclouded. If there is snow it will reflect the blue light and make it more intense. The lenght of this "blue hour" varies depending on where you are. In the tropics it is just 10 minutes or so. Here in Norway it can last for hours, in particular in winter. This far north (Bergen) winter days are short, a weak sun being over the horizon only in the middle of the day. The picture was made at 8 AM and it was still dark as sunrise was still at least one hour away.

 

Hello Bong - this picture was not planned or arranged, it was a scene I spotted by chance. I made a spot reading from the carpenter dressed in red clothes and used auto-bracketing.

 

And thank you everyone for all the positive responses to this picture - I am overwhelmed! :-)

Hi Roberto - the blue colour in this picture is a result of the pre-dawn "blue hour" and using saturated Velvia film. Also, the warm colours of the lit part of the scene makes the surroundings look bluer. It is hard to get the on-screen colours 100% similar to the original slide but that was basically what I tried to do. So this isn't a Photoshop effect picture, and I didn't use any filters on the lens. The light was weak and I used around 1/8 second exposure, on a tripod of course.

 

What do you think of this one?

I welcome comments on this picture which I made on my way to work

early one morning, having spotted the two carpenters from my kitchen

window.

The car was passing by and I grabbed the opportunity. :-)

I was driving down this road on the way to Lofoten islands in March

1998. When I saw the scene here I just had to stop and take a picture

of the approaching car before it was gone - traffic was rather light!