vietnam photo

The scene is like from a Tolkien novel.

I think the slightly tilt effect of the lense adds rather than subtracts the mood.

I love the tilted, the foreground man cover, the reflection, the blurred truck. It's like a scene from Spiderman movie. Congratulations on an excellent photo, one of many equally great photos in your portfolio.

Returning fishermen. They used fishing basket just like years ago.

Location is China Beach, Danang, Vietnam. Yes, the China Beach in VN war.

Taken at Japanese Bridge in Pho Co Hoi An. Handheld with 12-24mm DX. I

wish the woman in the background were not there but she was not that

distracting, I hope.

Thanks for your comment. I guess Venetian boats are popular now as you even find them in Las Vegas too :-). The boat was 100% true and my jaws dropped when seeing it ferrying across the river in FLORENCE. Enterprising folks to cater to tourism? :-).

Bryce Canyon

Navajo trail.

Upper Yosemite Falls on Christmas day 2005. Photo was cropped, BW,

dodged and burned to emphasize the shape and pattern of rocks vs. the

water flow.

Congratulations on your D2X. I saw this photo and thought "Wow! He knows how to use D70 to get the skin color and tone like this. My D70 photos do not turn out like this." Yes, there is a difference!!

Monmatre.

What a haunting photo. I kept coming back to this photo because of the faceless monk.

The shadow adds mystique to me and gives the photo some story? I was wondering if she/he was going to burn the flag. A beautiful image.

This photo brought back a lot of memory when I walked around Paris

under the full moon and ran into this group dancing on the bridge

(near Louvre Museum). The two women closer to the lense were fully

immersed in the music and the dance. The front woman closed her eyes

and the one in flowing dress had beautiful face. But the woman in the

black dress? I could not crop her out. I could not PS her out. And her

presence was a necessary to balance the two dancing women. This photo

is a keeper because it captured the moment and memory for me.

I like the composition but I found the special effect of large moon cliche and distracting. I agree that the moon serves very well as a counter balance to the large and imposing library. I only wish that is smaller or even "moves" a bit to the left corner.

Your Vietnam photos all have superb composition and lighting. And they have an intimate Vietnamese feel and soul. All of them are great and I like this one the best.

The light on the walls and the church in the background caught my eye.

But in the view finder, the glowing face of the woman was really the

focal of the photo, IMO. Light reflected across the street bathed her

face in a wondeful light, accentuating the fun and probably flirtuous

conversation. The location was in front of Stampen, a pretty well

known jazz club and made famous to audiophiles by the CD "Jazz in Pawn

Shop".

I could only imagine the pleasure of rowing on the Arno river between

Ponte Vecchio and Uffizi Gallery.

"Keep shooting and hopefully I will be in a better mood next time"? Hehehe, you overstate the significance of your rating. As I wrote, we learn by: (1) examples, (b) get criticism. Sorry but you are quite contentless if measured by these criteria.

 

Actually, I cannot help wondering if this is part of an insensitive university research on human behavior. You are at an Univ, aren't you? May be you first post a mediocre photo and then intentionally go and shoot down photos of others. And you want to shoot down unrated photos so that people can easily identify you. Then you can see if people will get angry and retaliate and rate your photos worse? Seems like a good plot and if true, very insensitive way to research. If not, I am dumbfounded but at least you do not go out and shoot around when bored or got nothing better to do.

 

 

I echo the comments of Fred and others because he rated my photo in the same way, i.e., rate it even though I did not submit for critique and rate it low w/o explaining. I was a bit annoyed but I have come to accept this thinking: (1) there is not much you can do to stop fly-by raters, (2) such a low rating is meaningful only if it is followed by an explanation, (3) the explanation is much more meaningful if you respect the work and opinion of that person. In other words, I donot lose sleep by ratings from him. It is much easier for him to play unsolicited and SILENT critics than to learn from others.

 

Thanks for Ngy Thanh for correcting the location's name (in a separate mail).

Nikos, you are right about the flaw. I did not bring the tripod and misjudged the shutter speed or my ability to get a sharp photo. Thanks for your comment on this and the fisherwomen photo.

The picture is striking. It is my personal taste but I wish the model looks sideway rather than AT me. Since she looks at me, her face is a focal point and that is distracting to the theme of the photo.

It rained so hard and fast.

Inside the Citadel, Hue, Vietnam