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<p>another link, to the "avedon at work" book.<br>

<a href="http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0406/av_intro.html">http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0406/av_intro.html</a><br>

there is a lot of informations in the videos.<br>

I had the opportunity to visit the Avedon exhibition in Paris one year ago. Being in a dark room surrounded by ten portraits of this serie was a very emotionnal experience.</p>

Whatever. Shoot in raw, and set your camera on BW. Your picture will be displayed in BW on your camera LCD, but you will be able to go back to the color version in your processing software and use the huge pottential of color images.

I don't know nothing zbout Asia, but travelled some times in Africa. Don't even try or dream to be unconspicious. You'll be noticed everywhere, everytime, and, wearing old clothes or new one, considered as a billionnaire. And, actually, you are considering how most of the people live there. In remote places, you'll be as interesting to look as you feel those people are to photograph.

Then, be yourself, behave as you feel, don't be uselessly afraid (sometimes, it's safer to be afraid...), be kind and polite, take time to say hello twice (one hello is never enough), take time to sit down in the shade, accept with a smile to be part of the show. If you don't give something of you, you won't get anything in return.

And have fun, I envy you deeply!

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No one will probably stop you using any type of tripod. I thinks it's not only a myth, image right ("le droit a l'image") is a big issue here in France, then it can be forbidden to take pictures in private places, and the limit beetween public and private is not very clear: railways station are considered as private, as Versailles park or... the Auvergne volcanoes. But actually, no one cares, I would be surprised if anybody ask you anything, and, if so, you would just would have to say sorry.

Many pictures don't need colors... and good color pictures are much more difficult to do!

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I'm not fully convinced by the "rainy day" folder as a whole, but it contains at least one wonderful picture, and that's fairly enough.

The "dernier jours" is very interesting, with some very good pictures. I commented on some of them. I understand Orville comment, the heavy distortion is a bit tiring.

 

On the general project: congratulation, and keep on! reading your invitation, I think you're more worried of the so-called progress and disappearing of traditionnal way of living than by the religious problem of Lebanon. Am I wrong? why only 15 or 20 pictures? This world deserves much more.

Same as previous comment: forget everything about dpi. Use only the picture size in pixels, usually about 800X600.

Which paper did you use? Did you use a profile for it? I'm not sure it's possible with PS element.

Never get any satisfying print without using PS color management and the proper paper profile.

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Congratulations and best wishes!

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This was shot a few years ago, in the Rio Negro, after a few days

walk in the amazonian forest. We came back exhausted, starving,

covered with insect bites, and rather wild! This guy, our guide,

bought this huge fish, and some piranhas, and we had a real fierce

picnic on the river.

...my old camera didn't survive this crazy trip, I had to find a

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Great stuff. I didn't know the one of the kid playing in the puddle, and it's one of my favorite.

Do you mean it's all scanned negative?

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On the R800 printer, you have to put the drivers in a stupid place in the windows directory, something like:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\color

The explanations given with the Ilford profiles, available on ther site, are very clear and could probably help you.