One out of a hundred Photo

Photographer’s Note

A Black H'Mong girl in a small village in beautiful Lao Chai valley near Sa Pa.
She was with her friends - couple of kids ... and a hundred expressions in 5 minutes.

That's the one I captured.

no cropping, conversion to B&W

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clodreno (0) 2004-04-02 4:16

Great shot Maciek. I love her face. I reead what Luko told you at one point. But still I love those close up very much.
We can feel you like those children.
By the way, i saw that you bought the 70/200 canon... How is it??

Curioso (9141) 2004-04-02 4:16

Great serenity on this face. I love the grain of the skin you capture.

DOF and use of sepia works splendid on this shot to my mind.

jhonny_blue (4954) 2004-04-02 4:27

One more perfect picture in a perfect sepia way !
Congratulations !

dib (277) 2004-04-02 4:31

très belle prise de vue,cadrage qui renforce l'émotion de la fillettte, le traitement noir blanc aussi renforce toute l'inquiétude de son visage

jrj (34779) 2004-04-02 4:49

Expressful and very good portrait. Very good capture and well composed, works well in BW..

gringofil (0) 2004-04-02 4:49

Very nice. The B&W works well with the subject. I really like her expression as it looks to be timeless. I also like the fact that the background looks nice and plain. Good job!

lemon_logix (1054) 2004-04-02 4:57

very nice. but I can't find any camera setting you used. Like the black white effect.

khawaaja (1031) 2004-04-02 5:06

What I like about this pic most of all is the girl's expression. Sometimes (and I am often guilty of this) we look to find the joy of childhood in an expression. Here we encounter something else - a thought old than the eyes perhaps.

As everybody says - B&W works well here, as does the grain which adds to the immediacy of the image.

Cool-ice (5289) 2004-04-02 5:27

This portrait is full of emotions and the process with sepia and grain is really perfect for this subject.
I really like this one very much, congratulations and thank you, Maciej !

manny (21378) 2004-04-02 5:36

This is a nice BW picture. Maciek, like Clod, I think you are excelling very well in tight portraits. Keep it up! Your composition and DOF here is well-seen. Good decision to turn it into a sepia. Very good work.

pgilberto (1136) 2004-04-02 5:39

Excelent portrait

Ginebra (0) 2004-04-02 6:28

Love her expression in this one. She is very aware of you taking her picture. It looks like a picture of the past. Very nice indeed!

PechePassion (483) 2004-04-02 6:56

Ecellent portrait de par la prise de vue mais aussi par le passage en N&B, c'est vraiment une TRES belle photo je ne sais quoi dire d'autre !

piozac (2058) 2004-04-02 7:20

Znowu b&w (czy może już sepia?). Super portret Maciek, bardzo mi się podoba. Delikatne ziarno daje fajny klimat.
Pozdrawiam!

paroy (316) 2004-04-02 8:00

Très bonne prise ,un regard qui en dit long. Vraiment très bien. Bravo !

ianmcall (1213) 2004-04-02 8:29

Very soulful. Her expression looks older than her years.

claudiaf (4406) 2004-04-02 8:47

She's lovely. Beautiful portrait.

Kenny10pin (19301) 2004-04-02 9:33

Nice work here, seems over exposed but the subject isnt and thats what makes the pictrure.

She seems depressed about something. great grainy shot too

Darren (6819) 2004-04-02 9:37

Good shot Maciek. Good conversion to B&W as well. Is the grain from the camera, or added later? Good shot, I really don't have much to add or contribute really.

RGatward (19751) 2004-04-02 9:39

Lot's of little girls today. Nice capture, have a good trip to Cambodia.

Ebbe (9593) 2004-04-02 11:25

Wonderful portrait with a well balanced framing. The warm tone B&W is great. but the best thing is her expression of deep thoughts or maybe sadness.

scalerman (25787) 2004-04-02 12:47

the BW works well here - seems to coincide wit the general mood of the shot.

Riz (0) 2004-04-02 13:17

great shot she looks so sad i like the depth of field as well.

Piotr (0) 2004-04-02 14:25

Swietny portret,w typie starej dobrej polskiej szkoly fotografi, efekt jak z tradycyjnej kliszy cz-b, doskonale!

eleparc (24059) 2004-04-02 18:36

great framing, compo as well with this blurred door in the back... excellent DOF and focus! a perfect shot for me Maciek. Nothing to complain about! even the choice of b&w is very judicious! bravo my friend!

cmartos (6086) 2004-04-03 13:10

Superb close portrait! A hundred expressions in 5 minutes? One can easily imagine hundreds of thoughts in one shot...like this one. Congratulations!

omritoppol (826) 2004-04-04 0:31

She look young and than again a bit old. The expression that you caught is priceless. I my self love the tight, cut compo.
Great one

bgladman (1153) 2004-04-04 8:46

Another brilliant portrait Maciek. I like the softness in the girls expression, its very soothing to look at. Great tonal range and shallow DOF is perfect for this shot. Excellent

iamxa (2846) 2004-04-16 12:23

Great portrait. I have lost before. The expression you have captured here is great for a photo, but so sad for the soul. Very well cropped, and the light, getting a god gamma of grays. The difficult here is don't loss the face with the deep, because the both are white. I like very much and I hope you understand my english.

rmatthews (941) 2004-10-02 9:56

Very nice. Good tone, good sharpness...I like the crop. The picture conveys emotion, feeling, and sentiment. Very well done.

retesh_gondal (173) 2004-11-20 13:07

beautiful kid with shapr features...sepia tone with b&w is perfect choice...very nice potrait.

michel_r (1114) 2004-12-01 23:17

So nice Maciej. I love the expression and the framing is very good. I thought for a while the door in the background is too distracting but i think it's eventually fine.