Sur le fleuve Gambie Photo

Photographer’s Note

Toujours sur le fleuve Gambie, cette femme etait ravie d etre prise en photo, derriere on apercoit l homme portant le bois sur sa tete.
lens:70/200

Always on the Gambia river, this woman was charmed being taken in photograph, behind we can see man carrying wood on her head.
lens:70/200

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kajspice (4534) 2007-05-24 5:13

Beautifully sharp and I like your colour conversion too.

Just one thing - I am a little troubled by the overlapping figure in the background...slightly distracting.

thea0211 (1355) 2007-05-24 5:20

francine, a smile back to you :)!

very nice - her joy is obvious and contagious - merci!

dora

bostankorkulugu (33984) 2007-05-24 5:22

i guess i know her :)))... isnt she the one about WC?... i like the way she smiles and waves her hand at you... beautiful compo also with the blury man behind... cheers francine...

korkut:)

partha (13667) 2007-05-24 5:22

Hi Francine,
Anotehr good expressive shot.The place ment of the subject and dof contolls well.B&W suits well here.
Regards.
Partha

daddo (11567) 2007-05-24 5:45

Hi Francine. Beautiful moment of contact, no ulterior motive, just a friendly greeting. The blurred background emphasizes in a way that you were just passing by and the ir lives will continue and yours too in their own trajectory. Touching shot. Regards. Klaudio.

jasmis (51029) 2007-05-24 5:49

Your serie from Africa is really impressive. This one is also amazing. Superb composition with smart DOF. Thanks for sharing.
Regards!

ribeiroantonio (21975) 2007-05-24 6:14

Just by looking at her body it is easy to see that life is very hard in Africa and at same time it is also difficult to comprehend why the large majority of the people have to be dominated and subjugated by a handful of corrupted tribal leaders in name of peace and liberty. You have here another wonderful picture of the common people of the continent called Africa. Many thanks, Francine.
Antonio

jemaflor (39759) 2007-05-24 7:20

Salut Francine,
Beau résultat avec ce n&b, l'attitude souriante de la femme est bien prise, bien aussi le bokeh qui laisse deviner la silhouette de la femme en arrière plan ... ce serait encore mieux s'il les deux personnes ne se superposaient pas autant ... une remarque de perfectionniste car j'imagine que c'est plus facile à dire qu'a prendre.

gabrielpat (6553) 2007-05-24 7:27

salut Francine,
très spontanée et nature!une dof superbe.
bravo pour un N/B pas facile.
Un ventre qui porte les traces de multiples grossesses,et des mains laborieuses.

blue-velvet30 (6524) 2007-05-24 7:42

Hi Francine!
Wonderful scene! Excellent POV and composition. Brawo!
regards
Dorota

zig (2450) 2007-05-24 9:00

Hi Francine. A super lovely smile she gave you for the shot! I like it so much. The background could be better if the guy was a bit more left sided. But the smile on her face is everything for the photo.

eleparc (24059) 2007-05-24 9:38

un bel exemple de nénés en gant de toilettes;-) oups! LOL tres beau cadrage et bokeh !dommage que les deux personnages se chevauchent dans l'image

bwiti (402) 2007-05-24 10:54

Qu'il est superbe ce noir et blanc ! Vous avez merveilleusement bien choisi le cadrage et la superposition du plan net et flou est de toute beauté.... Vous aviez certes un charmant modele mais vous avez su lui rendre un tres tres bel hommage alors félicitations...

ancevski (3334) 2007-05-24 11:19

Francine,

this is nice portrait, I like the b&w composition and the DOF.

Well done,
Dragan

JoseMiguel (860) 2007-05-24 12:27

Bonjour Francine,
Magnificent capture!
I like so much this bathing scene catched, in a moment of the daily live for that woman.
The medium choice was excellent to represent this activity and increase the dramatism of the moment.
It have been great that the other person at the back would be a little more to the left, but anyways this is a great photo.
Felicitacions et merci du partager.
Mes amities,
JM

Floydian (30970) 2007-05-24 13:56

Hello Francine,
All your B&W images have a kind of soft look, no hard and heavy contrast, and although i like those heavy contrast images, for these kind of pictures you have found the right treatment. They all have a wondeful toning which makes all your portraits very serene and peacefull.
High class work...very good, very natural...you have a talent for this kind of work.
Regards, Henk

ALIRIZA (16197) 2007-05-24 16:07

Bonjour Francine,
Excellent portait of this smiling woman. Wonderful B&W composition and good use of DOF. Well done my dear friend...
All the best...
Ali Rıza

ninaL (19592) 2007-05-25 4:20

Salut, Francine.
Tu as capté un moment extraordinaire, un morceau de bonheur, même si ces gens ne sont pas heureux forcément tous les jours, ils sont capables de l'être...et c'est fabuleux...la capacité d'être heureux, et de vivre des moments comme celui-ci. Le sourire que cette femme t'adresse est extraordinaire et touchant.
Amitiés, Grazyna.

jinju (14265) 2007-05-25 4:43

Hi Francine,

great combo of telephoto range and wide open apreture to blur the background and isolate your subject so well. The composition here is superb, classical and the subject Nat geo worthy

gary91 (15321) 2007-05-25 5:26

Salut Francine,
Très beau traitement n&b et belle composition. La grande ouvertur à f:2.8 remplit ici parfaitement son office.
Bon week-end à toi.
Amicalement, Christian

mesutilgim (37324) 2007-05-25 5:34

Hello Francine,
Again a great b&w work. Wonderfull compo.
The blurred women at the background seemed for me at first glance like a man's profile !
TFS
MESUT ILGIM

brevbrev14 (372) 2007-05-25 8:03

Hi Francine, beautiful iamge with the woman in background so blured!
lovely expression and smile of this woman in foreground!
another beautiful work of this series!
ciao !
Valeria

Polonaise (5638) 2007-05-25 16:09

Dear Francine...
This babe of yours is nothing short of pure joy for the eyes.
It's almost perfect shot, and if I said 'almost' it's because of that unfortunate position of the man, all dressed up in stunning bokeh, being so close to the smilie up front.
Can you imagine them to placed a little bit apart from each other ???

Still, a photo of a high class, with direct contact (precious feature), and incredibly good BW conversion.

Good of you, Ms. A.
You seized the day.

george

RGatward (19751) 2007-05-25 18:02

You'e got a great series here Francine, looks worthy of a show, I imagine you spent a long time getting to know the local community here, can't image you getting these otherwise.

MayaG (2393) 2007-05-26 5:42

Bonjour Francine,
its a charming photo, her gesture and smile really does it. As others said, pitty the man isn't more on the left because both deserve an undivided attention! :)

designsoul (21394) 2007-05-27 16:09

Love the way people in that part of the globe still retain their innocence, dear Francine, at this age. I shudder at our Western world more and more, longing to be among them... a very nice work, Francine, which works wonderfully with the lights and the bw.
Amicalement,
sasa

sothy81 (8540) 2007-05-28 5:09

Hello Francine,

Wonderful, wonderful,. capture. Well shot with this B/W version. Very sharp. Another wrld of human being living in half naked body. One cannot believe that there is this kind of people existing. Well done

Greeting from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sothy

Furachan (0) 2007-05-29 5:20

Bonjour Francine: une grande photo avec un beau bokeh qui detache cette femme tres nettement du fond. Un bon choix de traitement NB aussi.
Bravo,
A+
Francis

Flavia (10202) 2007-05-29 9:53

Salut Francine,

J'aime beaucop l'espontaineite de cet femme, ca joie de ce faire prendre en photo, son beau sourrire. Les tons son agreables et le bouquet au fond est parfait. Comme deja mentione l'home etait um peut plus a gauche serai encore mieux.

A+

Flavia

michiels (4170) 2007-05-30 14:44

hello Francine,

THis is a beautiful portrait of the woman. It's a litlle bit a pitty that the other figure is not more at the left side, but as they are no photomodels, you cannot set them up :) Great one !
greetings, inn

coco (28146) 2007-05-30 17:27

Hi Francine.

Again a touching picture from Senegal.

The black and white, the scene by itself and the same subject are amazing.

Well done.

pawelx (473) 2007-06-14 13:47

Fantastic work, superb black and white portrait. thanks for posting.

Framboisilla (5402) 2007-11-17 1:12

Salut Francine,

Je reviens sur tes photos de voyage et ce bokeh est vraiment très réussit, la lumière met en valeur ton sujet et le cadrage est top. J'aurai bien aimé la voir en couleurs également...

Bonne journée,
Stéphanie.