6 smiles @ 4 windows Photo

Photographer’s Note

Some were busy packing to return to Istanbul where they are living now, leaving behind only a few members of their family in the ancestral house. 2 women were calling someone in the garden below from these windows ; as I had seen the house inside and met all the inhabitants for a very strong "Rize tea", I knew that there were many more behind the windows and asked them to lean a bit (if possible) for a photo. Only women obliged...

... Not totally satisfied with this version but could not correct better the distortions. Here is a photo from the far of such a house and more photos from the same women to come soon.

I spent 2 nights in Güneysu, half an hour from Rize on the Black sea coast by minibus. The area is very dynamic economically, the inhabitants are richer than inland and therefore their traditional houses, such as this one are disappearing fast ; some are still there, in need of repair or totally restored such as the Prime Minister's house (whose parents are still living in this village). A tea factory, working non-stop is employing many persons in the area.

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erhan1958 (4069) 2008-09-19 1:53

MÜKÜMMEL BİR GÜNLÜK YAŞAM, KOMPOZİSYON O KADAR GÜZEL Kİ EMEĞİNİZE SAĞLIK ERHAN

Paolo (40755) 2008-09-19 1:55

Fantastic one Catherine, with the 6 smiling faces on the facades!
excellent light, colours, quality too.
thanks, ciao

sevy (13952) 2008-09-19 1:56

Bonjour Catherine,

Cette photo m amuse assez. Elle me fait penser a une scene du film West Side Story, avec les voisins regardant la ruelle a partir de leur building de Mahattan. Et pourtant, on en est bien eloigné ici en Turquie.
Les tetes au fenetres forment une composition bien equilibrée. Par contre, je ne comprends pas trop comment tu as pu avoir une telle deformation de l image. C est typique de cadrage aux tres grands angles sur les bord de cadre (phenomene d anamorphose different de la distortion), mais a ma connaissance, le Ixus ne cadre pas assez large pour presenter cet effet. Bizarre, bizarre.

Yves.

Merline (6578) 2008-09-19 2:09

Bonjour Cath!
Bizarre en effet cet effet déformant si marqué...maintenant je t'avoue que je n'y connais rien mais je suis un peu étonnée. Peut-être qn aura une solution, car cette photo est superbe. Que des femmes, (tiens tiens, les hommes sont restés cachés hmmm), toutes échangeant des regards avec toi, réparties sur l'image de manière harmonieuse, les sourires, les couleurs, les barreaux qui peuvent avoir un sens symbolique...de jolies textures aussi du mur et toit. J'aime beaucoup, elle m'attendrit cette photo.

Bises et bon weekend
Michèle

rigoletto (26792) 2008-09-19 2:17

LOL!
The distortion makes the ladies at the top left look like cartoon dolls with 2 dimensions. Correcting it? I don't know how to, but i'd be glad to learn how you gained that kind of distortion. It looks like real fun...

gezgin37 (3390) 2008-09-19 2:26

I love the distortion, smiles, the texture of the house. Beautiful shot...

mesutilgim (37282) 2008-09-19 3:02

Selam dear Kath,
Wonderfull capture ! Perfect pov and amazing compo with six different amazing faces. And the stage just unique !
This is a good sample for the fact, what we call a "mosaic" .
TFS and have a nice weekend
Best regards
MESUT ILGIM

okahraman (4576) 2008-09-19 3:08

Catherine merhaba ;

çok ilginç bir pespektif çalışması olmuş eline sağlık iyi günler

Önder Kahraman

tehanu_f (6874) 2008-09-19 3:10

beautiful cadrage, cath! distortion is a problem, yes, but I also don't know how to solve it. I still like this. Lovely, full of life and joy, great textures and harmonious colours, and fun!

ChrisJ (70443) 2008-09-19 3:28

Salut Catherine

A good, upward pov, with the window sans people, top right, nicely breaking the repetitive pattern. Good colour & sharpness. Well seen!

ymrk (9119) 2008-09-19 3:50

Hello catherine;
There is fantastic photos.İt's unbeliveable colors.See you later.Goodbye.Yağmur

MarcT (21103) 2008-09-19 6:33

Salut Cath,
superbe cadrage. Original et amusant, il donne un peu le vertige!
Amitiés
Marc

azizbilgili (1714) 2008-09-19 7:19

Wow...

Hi Kath,
Wonderfull capture ! Perfect pov and amazing compo with six different amazing faces...

TFS

ninaL (19590) 2008-09-19 8:04

Dans mon imagination, j'ai souvent fait une photo comme ça : c'est un immeuble, toutes les fenêtres sont ouvertes, et il y a quelqu'un dans chaque fenêtre...
Je l'ai rêvé, tu l'as fait...
Commment est-ce possible ?
C'est génial.
Amitiés, Grazyna

dokadak (11492) 2008-09-19 8:13

Hello Cath,

More than probably there was no more people for 5th window :)
Its so warm and lovely shoot from my city not as like as old one :)

cheers
hasan

amazon (10875) 2008-09-19 8:22

selam cath,:)))
kenarlardaki geniş açı etkisi cok güzel,
bakış acını sevdim,cok güzel bir günlük hayat karesi bu,
tebrikler,
selamlar,
iffet

Polonaise (5638) 2008-09-19 9:04

Incredibly cheerful, Cathy...
And very, very beautiful...

Hey, my motto is:
Once a good photographer - always a good photographer...

Smiling - George

jonathan_hart (22627) 2008-09-19 12:11

l'effet graphique est excellent, d'où l'intérêt de corriger la distortion, la compo avec ces six sourires @ qutre fenêtres est marrante, mais la déformation des visages l'est beaucoup moins, la version originale ne vaut-elle pas le coup ?
amicalement
jo

Vasa (6318) 2008-09-19 13:19

Bravo Catherine, idee originale ou ta reaction re reve. Autant de sourires et chacun pour soi. Puis une facade qui attire attention: ossature a bois et les fenaitres qui protegent qui ne cessent pas de proteger. Deux "sourires" et deux fois "grandes amities".

Branko

pcp (3368) 2008-09-19 20:14

Wow.. How you composed this image...?? wonderful, smiles are really great and nice ...composition.. very well done.

TFS

Senthil

didemay (2435) 2008-09-20 4:23

I don't know why but in some of the photos I like the distortions. Especially if that distortion is around the smiling part of the body:)
A very neighbour-at-the-corner photo, so lovely, so sincere.
PS: I added WS for you showing the grandmother in Splash 1:)

thea0211 (1355) 2008-09-20 23:46

good morning cath,
distorsions are quite a delicate issue and have to be treated with much care but for this image i'll join the 'i like distorsion here' group ;o), for some strange reason it gives new dimensions to the image, can't exactly put it in words.
nice collective portrait and an even more nicer collective smile to you ... you're always good in generating those ;o), but that's not a surprise anymore for us.
interesting!
dora

lousat (16092) 2008-09-21 15:00

Salut Catherine,c'est une photo de haute qualite' sois pour l'idee' sois pour la parfaire realisation,une different facon de montrer les visages que reste ta grande passion! Mes compliments,une bonne semaine a toi et merci de partager,Luciano

KateinDenmark (1117) 2008-09-22 2:00

Really good photo here! I love all the women looking out the windows from this extremely unique house. The people almost look like they were cut out and laid over a grid work, but they weren't, obviously. Very interesting.

Kate

bantonbuju (48796) 2008-09-22 3:52

a female prison?....:-))
superb capture, cath... bit pitty for the distortion effect in the TL corner but still this is an unusual photo...
best wishes, j.

axiotea (16287) 2008-09-22 22:52

Salut Cath
Elle est marrante celle-ci ;) et même avec la déformation, je la trouve quand même bien sympa! Ces femmes qui se sont penchées du plus qu'elles le pouvaient pour te faire plaisir ;) J'aime bien aussi le coté graphique...
Amitiés
Marilyn

burGu (4548) 2008-09-23 14:10

I thought that I know how to fix this lens distortion. So I wanted to try this one, but I couldn't do it. Maybe I am better at fixing more simple distortions.
But I like your distortion here! And I totally agree with Rigo's cartoon dolls idea! Yours is almost like a magical distortion :)
Ladies trapped in the graphism... Nice work Cath, congrats,
Burcu

jasmis (50995) 2008-09-24 3:17

Really great composition. Superb idea, fine result.
Regrads my dear friend.