doug_johnson10

Peru

WOW Ricochetrider, great critique! Thank you so much for taking the time to do that! It is a Ford GT Mark 4, and I do own it! I haven't raced it yet on my private race track, and in all fairness, must admit that it is 1/32 scale! "Those big, knobby mirrors on the car's fenders could have stuck out like big fat sore thumbs-"...its hard to make mirrors accurate with a car that is only 4" long. I posted this picture to see whether people would see what they wanted, or see what was there...you did both! I had to photograph the car in perspective that would match the background. Having been a commercial photographer most of my professional life, I had to many times match the exposure of the background (ambient light) with the subject (strobe) in believable balance. It is much easier to do in Photoshop! Thanks again for taking the time, and for writing such a concise critique!

I have no idea...I don't know why I press the shutter when I do, or a millisecond earlier or later is somehow "wrong". I've been doing photogaphy for 50 years, and I still don't know. Back when I shot film, I didn't know why the contact sheet spoke to me in split seconds...no, no, no, yes. The image in my head was NEVER what I got on film...NEVER! It got closer in prints, but never what my head told me was "right". Photoshop is the new darkroom...but still the image in my head is different than the camera provides...and it doesn't matter what I photograph, it's never "right". Perhaps that's why I persist...the more I do it, the closer I get to what is, (and always has been) in my head.

Thank you so much. I feel blinded by his story, and can't tell if my photo conveys the emotion I felt upon hearing it.

Thanks Michael...I have done something like that to his hands, and neck...to my taste the result was "lizardy", much like parched ground.

Photo was taken in a remote village near the Bhuj Desert in India. The subject is an elderly master weaver with alzheimers who had been banished from his village because he could no longer contribute. He was taken in by a neighbouring village, given odd jobs in exchange for care and feeding. The subject stood in a window of an indigo dyeing shed, a white building behind him, and various dyers tending vats in front of him. I was told his story by a translator, and asked him how he felt about his new village...that was his response.

Porsche test car

<p>What is the largest enlargement you've ever made? That should answer the size of the sensor question. How much weight do you want to carry around Peru? That should help with camera choice. Do you want to be a target while carrying your camera? Probably not, so no camera jewelry. I'm a 66 y/o retired commercial photographer that does a fair amount of travelling. I've had lot's of very expensive equipment...it's too heavy now! I have a Panasonic FZ200. I was in Sri Lanka last January, saw this beautiful street vendor, and eventually enlarged it to 18"x24", could still count individual hairs and wrinkles. The zoom is only 25mm-600mm, but at a constant f2.8. This was shot wide open.<br /><br /></p><div></div>

<p>What is the largest enlargement you've ever made? That should answer the size of the sensor question. How much weight do you want to carry around Peru? That should help with camera choice. Do you want to be a target while carrying your camera? Probably not, so no camera jewelry. I'm a 66 y/o retired commercial photographer, that does a fair amount of travelling. I've had lot's of very expensive equipment...it's too heavy now! I have a Panasonic FZ200. I was in Sri Lanka last January, saw this beautiful street vendor, and eventually enlarged it to 18"x24", could still count individual hairs and wrinkles. The zoom is only 25mm-600mm, but at a constant f2.8. This was shot wide open.<br> http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/fotodoug1/media/1_2.jpg.html?filters[user]=112409994&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=5</p>