bustle in Bac Ha...

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• Gustaw (20556)
• [2007-01-30 13:08]

Hi, friend!
It is good street photo, I like your composition. Interesting people and interesting face of people. Good strong colours. I like your idea. Well done.
marek

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• AnimeshRay (8773)
• [2007-01-30 13:20]

Terrific shot, Caleb! Love the two main figures looking into two different ponits, excellent POV, and terrific color. Very nice play of soft light.

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• everlasting (9547)
• [2007-01-30 13:37]

Wonderful deep colours, I like how the two characters look in differnt directions and not at you at all.

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• ibhm (274)
• [2007-01-30 13:39]
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• Deepforest (7515)
• [2007-01-30 13:52]

Hello Caleb,
interesting daily life's scene from Vietnam, especially the women in the foreground, she looks very intriguingly... Good colours, I would prefer more of top of the picture mayby ;o)
Best regards,
Andrzej

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• Furachan (0)
• [2007-01-30 14:31]

I can always tell when you're using that 24-70, C. To devastating effect here, with that low POV that creates intimicacy and clever selective focus. A beautiful tableau of the Flower Hmong, one of the best I've ever seen. You're really flying high these days, man.
best,
Francis

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• noahsark (1092)
• [2007-01-30 17:08]

Hi Caleb,

I love very much this daily life scene and the intense expression. The background also is perfect.

composition*****
subject*****
colors and light*****
sharpness*****
overall aesthetics*****

well done!

Mahmut K.

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• henrytf (977)
• [2007-01-30 17:54]

Hello Caleb
A very interesting street life photograph and a nice composition.I particularly like the lady in red sitting on the step in the foreground.
Beautiful
Friendly
Henry

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• SamB (1944)
• [2007-01-30 21:15]

Hello, Caleb--
This is easily my favorite picture from you in a while. Rather than just a straightforward portrait, this really takes a very complex scene and simplifies it to a meaningful and easy to "read" composition. The composition receding from right to left is nice, and directed well by the steps. The girl at right anchors the composition well, filling her third of the frame with her interesting posture--i particularly like the way the bottom of her foot is visible... i don't know why though. Both her expression and the expression of the man behind her seem deep and thoughtful, as if they are caught in their own world, and the left third is filled with the bustle of the city, cramming many people into a much smaller space, offering a contrast to their thoughtful expressions.
Thanks!
sam

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• sanalytis (1628)
• [2007-01-31 2:11]

Hi Caleb,

You captured an excellent photograph here. The composition is very strong with both the man and women in deep thought while the rest of the people going about their business at the market. Very well done.

Spiros

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• riclopes (26978)
• [2007-01-31 3:09]

Great POV, Caleb! Love the way you got the people around the pillar, each one lost in their own thoughts while no costumer makes them return to earth. Lovely atmosphere.
Ricardo

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• entrelec (8336)
• [2007-01-31 3:36]

Very nice compo, Caleb, some intimacy with this woman you create here and a complex space; nice pov.
regards

Joel

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• Albrecht (10746)
• [2007-01-31 13:02]

Hi Caleb
Wonderfl scene;wonderful colours;wonderful sharp picture;wonderful subject;
great job again!!
greetings from Holland
Albrecht

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• roamermark (1575)
• [2007-01-31 20:33]

Hi Caleb,
Sam has expressed what I wanted to say about how this differs from your typical and brilliant portraiture. This has a real complexity to it yet the portraiture is still in there even if it is a street shot.
The left/right back/front halves are opposite yet complementary....
Well Done
Cheers
Mark

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• vagabondtravels (5904)
• [2007-02-05 20:55]

Hi Caleb

You have captured the atmosphere of daily life very well. Good comp. Many parts to this image. Great work.
Ben

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• banyanman (7470)
• [2007-08-27 0:33]

Hi Caleb. I like street shots like this where you are close in to the people, but they don't seem to know that you are there. As Sam has already pointed out, the faces looking in opposite directions balance the composition well, and even though you have cut off the head of the person on the left, that doesn't seem to matter here because of your low POV and the fact that the focus is on the two subjects on the right. If the person on the left had been walking towards you, it wouldn't have worked so well, because then we wouldn't have been able to see the basket on her back which adds to the 'ethnicity' of the scene. Cheers . . . David

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• Evolution (274)
• [2007-10-20 20:55]
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Sadly Caleb, these scenes are no more in Bac Ha. quite disappointing... will post a workshop showing the "new" Bac Ha tomrrow. (limit reached today....)
Brian