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Here is my first attempt at taking a travel shot. I still have to get up the nerve to get in close to people (might start a topic on that)
Anyhow, only brought my 18-70 lens with me. so didn’t get in close to anyone.
This soht was taken in a fishing village in Alvor, Portugal. Really recommend going there as it still has alot of character.
The older locals seem spend alot of time sitting outside their homes on the street, talking, drinking and generally chillin’.I like this shot because you have the local on the left with the tourist further down to the right on his fancy chair lol
C&C welcome.
The older locals seem spend alot of time sitting outside their homes on the street, talking and drinking
Now isnt that the life :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lovely place, Mark.
I was there for two weeks earlier in the summer.
I’ll go back soon.I think if you got the man straight on with the bottle it would be an absolutely cracking shot.
I used to have trouble approaching people about shots until i went to the festival in Howth a couple
of weeks back :). You wouldn’t believe the amount of people that don’t even notice someone
standing right infront of the with a camera pointed in there direction. :). Definitely worth starting a thread
on this.I?ve looked at this photo a few times now. I like the impression given by the old man and the dilapidated house. There is something likable about it and something that leaves me wondering what I would have shot or framed.
I?m wondering whether the photo is best framed to emphasise the contrast between this old man and the other, somewhat more dapper, man sitting outside a more prosperous shop. Or is it best framed to cut out the second man altogether.
For the contrast between the men and their buildings to work more of the other man and his shop would need to be in the frame – a 50-50 split – and that also means retaining those rather unsightly poles, unless they could be cloned out, which wouldn?t e easy. And possibly the poverty/prosperity contrast would still not be strong enough.
I think I?d plump for a re-crop that isolates the old man and eliminates the other man and the poles. It might be difficult to do it so that the old man is somewhere around the point of thirds. But the character of the old man and the dilapidated house are the key elements in the photo and make a great character study for the area.
All in all, nice work.
Just my ?0.02
I’ll post up a couple of different crops later. I had cropped a piece off the right-hand side where there is a car etc…
Will see how we go.
thanks for the feedback
MarkThorsten wrote:
I think I?d plump for a re-crop that isolates the old man and eliminates the other man and the poles. It might be difficult to do it so that the old man is somewhere around the point of thirds. But the character of the old man and the dilapidated house are the key elements in the photo and make a great character study for the area.
I’d agree with Thorsten here, particularly in view of it being “a great character study for the area”. As a travel shot though, I’m not sure if it fulfils the criteria of making me want to visit (Of course I want to visit: Who doesn’t want a vacation in sunnier climes? :wink: ). Overall a nice image that might be improved with Thorsten’s suggested crop. Nice one
Rob.
“Thorsten wrote”????
Heck, I’m even more schritzophenic than I was aware of! lol :-)
(Sorry – that was a weak attempt at homour relating to one of my comments getting attributed to Thorsten.)
Fair point Rob for sure. I posted it as it was the closest I had to a Travel shot :)
Might look at some others I took, might be more appropriate
Here’s a couple of different crops. I tried isolating the old man on his own, but the composition didn’t seem right.
I most get more practice at shooting people photographs.Anyhow….
I tried to crop out the old man and transvered to b&w. His face has very good expression.
Mark, if the shot is big enough, try it.
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