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Flying Dhol


Flying Dhol
Photo Information
Copyright: Pierre Morel (PierreMorel) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 83 W: 30 N: 136] (1148)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-25
Categories: Festivals
Camera: Nikon D 70s, Nikkor 18-200mm AFS DX 3.5-5.6 IF-ED VR
Exposure: f/4.2, 1/30 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): A glimpse of Sufi nights [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-08-05 8:17
Viewed: 464
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
I shot this one in a Sufi festival celebrating the death of the Sufi Saint Lal Hussain and his disciple Madho. There was hundreds of thousand people in a huge area with fair and circus. Inside the shrine area, some Sufi babas were sitting and some musicians were playing Dhol, a huge double sided drums. Here are the two Saeen brothers Mithu on the left and Gonga in the middle, spinning while playing. The most interesting in that story is that Gonga is mute and death!!! but the two brothers are internationaly famous and the best dhol players i ever listen.

More soon about this crazy Sufi nights

Due to poor light condition, i shot at iso 1600 and processed the RAW file with DxO software to reduce noise.

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ThreadThread Starter Messages Updated
To noborders: Sufi festivalsPierreMorel 1 10-05 01:14
To mugush: ThanksPierreMorel 3 08-13 08:24
To dilane: MerciPierreMorel 1 08-07 00:58
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bonsoir pierre
quoi! une si belle photo à 0! quelle super gestion de la vitesse! tous ces regards convergeant vers le musicien! expo parfaite avec ce petit rayon dans les feuilles!bien aussi l'oubli du flash, travail plus dur mais quel résultat!cadrage parfait, même cet instrument un peu coupé est un plus pour le mouvement.une photo comme j'aime les faire , difficle mais ô combien réussie pour moi! félicitations
amitiés daniel

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  • ninaL Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1781 W: 229 N: 1861] (15485)
  • [2007-08-10 2:30]

Bonjour, Pierre.
Seulement une critique pour une photo aussi accomplie ?
Une scène pleine de dynamique, avec l'instrument en mouvement au premier plan, et avec une composition parfaite.
Belle ambiance, aussi.
J'aime beaucoup.
Amicalement, Grazyna.

what a picture you had captured from Pakistan.. excellent .. and your note is too informative, you even know more than us(Pakistanis). i can feel the atmosphere..
hey have you ever heard the name of famous dhool player 'Papu Sayeeen'? he is also from Lahore..
thanks for sharing
love
mugush

Oh que j'aimerais assister à ce genre de spectacle et me laisser aller aus rythmes répétitifs jusqu'à l'extase contagieuse ! Ces photos traduisent bien la frénésie et la ferveur ambiante, surtout celle-ci avec le mouvement du tambour...
Félicitations, cette photo devrait recevoir bien plus de smileys !
Cath.

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