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streets of Kashgar...


streets of Kashgar...
Photo Information
Copyright: Caleb Colman (scalerman) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1655 W: 62 N: 978] (19347)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-05
Categories: Daily Life, Transportation
Camera: Canon EOS 5D, Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L US, RAW, B+W UV
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/500 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-06 6:00
Viewed: 679
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 25
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Uyghur language, written with Arabic script parallels the same notice written in Chinese characters - a typically Kashgari scene; an example of the cultural cross-polination on the famed 'Silk Road'. I never completely understood the mobile-phone number graffiti you see all over Chinese walls - but it has something to do with a fly-by-night scam...

ISO at 200 ASA and focal length at 55.0mm.

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To delic: PS adjustmentsscalerman 3 03-06 15:32
To horatiuTT: saturationscalerman 4 03-06 07:30
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Hi Caleb,

wonderfully composed shot with this succesion of people, in warm tones too, that´s a bonus, well conveyed atmosphere!

Take care, Ivana

hello Caleb,

beautiful warm colours and great compo with the people walking in one direction. i love arabic and chinese writing, it is so beautiful !!
greetings, inn

What a beautiful picture Caleb, a tastefully composed work, congrats!!

have a nice day,
Fabio.

Hi Caleb,

What an amazing shot of the daily life in China. Beutiful composition, colors, theme. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Carpen Diem

Well this one is really an eye grabber Caleb!
Great colors and very sharp, I like the guy on the bicycle frozen just as he enter the frame.
Funny enough I would have guessed this picture to have been taken somewhere in the middle east instead of China.
Harry

Hi Caleb,
wonderful capture,I like very much this kind of perspective.
Superb light also,just that kid's clothes seem to be a bit
oversaturated I.Regards and well done.
Horatiu

  • Good 
  • delic Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1350 W: 63 N: 1732] (6009)
  • [2008-03-06 9:01]
  • [+]

Caleb,
I too find the contrast and/or saturation a bit high. Hard to nail this stuff down for web browsers. Depending on the light and colors, I set levels to 0.90-0.96, contrast and saturation up between 5-10 on CS2. This is for Nikon raw converted to tiff on NX with lowest contrast, saturation and sharpening settings (and scanned slides, too). I like this picture with the seemingly unrelated trio. But the composition is somewhat unbalanced with the man barely in the frame. Hope all this helps.
Hakan

Very good shot, pleasant quality. There's a rythm in this composition - the silhouettes become gradually smaller, counting from the right to the left ;-)
Best regards
Joanna

bonsoir,
de tres belles couleurs chaudes...
j'adore le cadrage avec juste la roue avant du velo...
tre belle composition
vero

Hi Caleb
Nice scene from daily life.Good composition and colours !!!
Regards
Dorota

This is very cool Caleb, one of the best images Ive seen on TE in recent times. Just amazing texture as well as the graffiti which Im fond of.

  • Great 
  • dilane Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 624 W: 109 N: 989] (8449)
  • [2008-03-10 11:34]

Beau trio assorti - enfant, femme, homme - le mur est très interessant - les couleurs éclatantes - et une belle netteté -la compo est très interessante - du très bon travail Caleb -
best regards
daniel

Caleb,
Regardless of what it says on the walls, it's a fascinating shot of this trio in motion.
You must be very patient - or very fortunate!
Regards

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