You owe me 1000 Rupees!!!

cocasana

This lady was telling me that she pretended 1000 Rp (0,25 USD) for modeling in this photo. She was chewing sugar cane.
New market, Wamena (Papua Barat, Indonesia).
I really would be interested in your opinions, comments, critiques...
Thanks, Carlo

windoze

cocasana wrote:

This lady was telling me that she pretended 1000 Rp (0,25 USD) for modeling in this photo. She was chewing sugar cane.
New market, Wamena (Papua Barat, Indonesia).
I really would be interested in your opinions, comments, critiques...
Thanks, Carlo

its a gorgeous image,
Im not really one to comment on others but what if the background wasnt as "rich" / "vivid" / "saturated" - im not sure of the appropriate word to use. The rich colors of the background slightly distract my eyes from the subject...
But.. listen ! Its a beautiful image and i wouldnt change a thing!



troy

cocasana

New (for me) B.W. conversion technique: double Hue/Saturation layers plus a color balance layer. Just saw it on a Dave Cross tutorial on NAPP!
Opinions? Comments? Critiques?

firedancing4life

The black and white conversion is excellent. Do you have a link for that tut?

Very nice!

cocasana

Thank you Windoze, thank you firedancin4life for stopping and commenting!
image.
Firedancing4life: I'm afraid you shoiuld subscribe to NAPP. Dave Cross's tutorial its rather long and very useful if you want a really dramatic B.W. image He starts with a rough B.W conversion adding a Gradient map layer, and then adds a color balance layer for fine tuning. Then he goes on for his dramatic effect. I've converted the shot with the doble Hue/Saturation layers and then I've added a Color balance layer for fine tuning. That's it!

DavidS

Very nice portrait. I like the B/W version the best.

Thiago Sigrist

B&w!
Carlo,

the B&W shot definitely speaks more to me, I prefer it. Great shot, by the way. Shows a lot of character, as your pictures always do.

The B&W conversion is great, and I think its contrasts and overall "description of light" are better.

The Dave Cross tutorial is probably quite complex (I haven't seen it), but I've found methods 4 (which uses 2-3 hue/saturation layers) and 5 from the link above usually do the trick for me:

http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/bw/converting_to_bw.htm

Thanks so much for sharing yet another great photo with us!
Take care!

-- thiago

chet79

awesome shot! nice bokeh!

well done

LiquidAir

Mostly I like the color version better, but that big blue patch in the background is a major distraction. If it was my shot, I might try selectively desaturating just that blue patch down to a navy or midnight blue.