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Photographer’s Note

Southwest of Golden Horn has a lot of very old,small and narrow streets. In those streets, there are small shops which sell incredibly different goods, such as toys from China or hand-made wooden barells or second hand wearings etc. Also you can see customers from all around the world mainly eastern-Europian, Russian, African. Those shops, the bazaar, still keep their characters since Istanbul's imperial ages.

Beacuse of limited width of the streets, trucks can not carry the goods to the shops and only men can carry them.

So, here is a porter in historic but still alive bazaar.

ishai, DuFrank, eleparc, Aegean, bfly, sarieyyupoglu, roshangar, christina has marked this note useful

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lukasfoto (3078) 2004-09-30 6:36 [Comment]

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ishai (4093) 2004-09-30 15:20

Cem
What a lovely portrait
This man hanging on his little trolley (I don’t know the right name in English)
He looks at you in a very nice warm way
The scenery is very good too showing us the bazar and its atmosphere
I made a Ws I hope you like it

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jhe00 (271) 2004-09-30 23:27

great portrait. original, clever composition and stunning detail.

DuFrank (150) 2004-10-01 1:58 [Comment]

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manny (21378) 2004-10-01 6:18

Very well-composed. Great colors. I like the picture very much a sit looks too candid. A National Geograhic material.

eleparc (24059) 2004-10-01 8:42

great portrait with a very strong clear focused foreground and a darker bg... nice contextual portrait;;-) LOL no need to use PS for that yuou see;-)) i like it ;-)

sarieyyupoglu (324) 2004-10-01 14:03

fotoğraf doğallığı çok güzel yansıtmiş. ilginç olan adamın gözlerindeki gülümseme, belki bu sadece bir anlıktı belki de mutlu olmak için her anı değerlendiriyordur kim bilir beki de bugun onun için çok iyi geçmiştir. her ne olursa olsun gülmek için neden aramamalıyız. aksi takdirde hiç gülemeyiz. bu fotoğrafın bana gülmeyi hatırlattığı için çok teşekkür ederim.

Aegean (2567) 2004-10-01 14:39

A great photojurnalistic shot Gem! Framing and perspective is really impresive and the face expresion of the porter realy magnificent! Very well seen and captured!

bfly (5737) 2004-10-04 17:07

Cem, so you shot this one that Sunday :) be happy I could not join you..:))..
he has such a great face..his smile and leaning tired on the trolley (cheated for "trolley" from Ishai:) are so beautiful...you caught a very good documentary with a lot of feeling...
it is also very good that there is only one man behind him under similar light..very good balanced..
thanks, hugs..

flydragon (0) 2004-10-21 6:10

Hello Cem
i like this shot
a verry good protrait here
and great composition with this
man on the right, his gaze is also
verry interresting.
verry good also the way u maneged
the light, i know it can be difficult
in this kind of place.
just something is a bit disturbing
for me, the white shirt of the guy
smoking, maybe a little bit dark
could help.
••simon••

RandomCameraGuy (3063) 2004-11-02 14:48

This is a good pic, there is an interesting foreground and background and the eye runs from one to the other. One small suggestion: if you had crouched down you could have gotten more of the foreground guy in the frame with out compromising the background and allowing more of the interesting things hanging above too. Cheers!

roshangar (1485) 2004-11-19 14:09

I like his emotion the way who is looking to you and the light on his face and his hands,overall the way that you composed him is great!

maciekda (19587) 2004-11-30 5:27

this is a very nice portrait, very natural, the guy gave you a great look, interesting things in the background too, good stuff

christina (2040) 2005-01-27 17:25