Praying at Schwedagon

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• marthival (257)
• [2004-12-11 20:29]

I love your photograph. Very good POV. It is a good portrait with appropriat cropping.

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• Xalkida (11560)
• [2004-12-11 22:03]

Very fine POV! You have captured this man at the right time! Excellent work!

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• markoci (3867)
• [2004-12-11 22:46]
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another excellent portrait darren, your pictures speak for themselves. good details and contrast of the rosary against the white shirt, excellent dof.

i always wonder how you capture such "decisive moments" with a tripod, your subjects don't move?

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• philip_coggan (9)
• [2004-12-12 5:36]
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Hi Darren. So you're the first off the mark! :). After you and Thien left me in Yangon I went up to Inle, and trekked 2 days across the villages, then went sightseeing round the lake. And after that, lots of street photography in Yangon, some of it unposed! Last night Osman took me to his girlfriend's mother's restaurant for a farewell meal...if a street stall selling fried samosas can be called a restaurant. Miracle of miracles, my tummy is fine today - I must be aclimatised! I'll upload some pics soon - but due to fly out to Australia tomorrow evening. (And I still hate Bangkok).

The trip this last month has convinced me that there's a real possibility of my organising moer such next winter. And Cedar wants to do similar for Tibet. TrekEarth Travel Inc?

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• maciekda (19320)
• [2004-12-12 5:56]

great momant Darren, his eyes looking somewhere in the distance... nice compo and good handling of the white shirt ;) very nice

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• clodreno (0)
• [2004-12-12 6:19]

Very nice image Darren. I like the way he is playing with the beads..The way he looks up.... to ?? The DOF you chose here is vey good, the grey background is a very light and appealing one.
Nice.

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• eleparc (23968)
• [2004-12-12 10:27]

very appealling DOF and background... I like the way he looks up somewhere unseen from us viewers... It leaves an oipen space for our imagination to run, and i like that! good colors too;-)

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• naxius (16627)
• [2004-12-12 13:51]

Very nice portrait Darren, I like the DOF here. It is excellent.
Thank you for your explanation about the tripod. That could help us in some situations!
Alexandre

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• thien (2080)
• [2004-12-12 20:34]

Ha! You missed the focus on the bottom hand. You should adhere to Philip school of manual focus now. The Canon 10D full-time manual focus would not have this problem ;).

The man is perhaps praying to get rid of two vultures with camera circling around disturbing his peace. I think I saw another shot with the same man on TE. Maybe we should start a "Man with beadstrings club"

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• Luko (13473)
• [2004-12-14 13:23]
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It's a picture of someone praying hard that a blurred red line at the top of the image doesn't fall on his head. He sees the red line and curses at it "Damn you blurred red line!" (I can read it on his lips : that's the moment of the "K" sound of "Curse you, red line!")

This poor man ended praying continuously because of a vain photographer who didn't want to crop out his pics ...(in the sole reason he wishes to say "no crop, full frame" though his finder only shows 95% of the real image...)


yeah true story... once you've imagined he's looking at the red line, I bet it won't go out of your mind so easily... you'll have to hang one of your left hand finger over the pic to imagine he's looking at your finger, just try... :D...






...and then you'll have to leave your finger hanging over him every time you open this pic... (can someone please upload a shot of Darren hanging his finger over his monitor?)

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• leschamb (371)
• [2004-12-18 3:51]

LOL about the workshop! :)
I love the ultra sharpness of this shot. his very crisp looking, bright white shirt is a little distracting, but I think it also brings out the man's dark face and hands.