Quechuan Doll Photo

Photographer’s Note

This was taken on the same trek as previous post. We came upon several small villages and have an opportunity to see how the local live up on the remote Andes Mountains. This girl is so adorable, like a little doll dress up in traditional Quechuan outfits. I just want to take her home with me. Since I couldn’t at least I got a picture of her.

Scanned
crop and slight sharpen and saturation

Deepforest, goldyrs, trekks, bakes888, MarianneS, lrw1966, Kielia, jhm, adores, patdeph, angela926, maloutim, zmey has marked this note useful

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Deepforest (8825) 2008-08-14 13:04

Hi Way,
beautiful impression from Peru... It is visible that photo was scanned, but the quality is really good. I like very nice and expressive face of the girl the same as her dress. Fantastic shot!
Best regards,
Andrzej

emka (22439) 2008-08-14 13:48

Hi Way, very cute Quechuan girl! Her smile is so lovely. I like her traditiomnal dress very much. Excellent shot!

Regards

Malgorzata

yedirenk (7551) 2008-08-14 18:54

Hello Way,
A beautiful portrait.very innocent,very lovely and Sympathetic.what a beautiful face.smiling and hopeful...ın this world.I like this portrait.very well done.TFS
Greetings

Cevdet

scalerman (25787) 2008-08-14 19:18

Way: it's a warming portrait and I know they don't like the lens down there. regards, c

goldyrs (136) 2008-08-14 19:48

hey Bro!
What a cutie pie to come back to after a break!I love the smile ou've captured, it illuminates the entire room!
Simple, perfect shot!
Goldy

trekks (14334) 2008-08-14 23:10

hello Way

Lovely isnt she? A different style and culture apart but simply a great universal expression - the smile.

Nice portrait, crop to exact foot at bottom. Phew! Almost lost her toe. I would probably just crop out the dress at the right, but that is just my taste without spoiling your good shot.

tfs, bill

bakes888 (18353) 2008-08-14 23:44

Hi Way. Gorgeous kid and shy smile. Well captured with good light on her face and even a small sparkle in the eyes. Nice work and thanks for sharing.
Have a good weekend, Paul.

MarianneS (14452) 2008-08-15 0:02

Hello Way,
A lovely capture. The title is perfectly appropriated to this cute little girl.
Her smile is sooo sweet!
I think I would have tried another approach by cropping the part on the right with the other dress, and perhaps gettting a closer view by cutting the down part (and then you would avoid the feet against the frame). It would also put the little girl on the right and no more in the center.
Just another idea ;-)
This is a very good portrait!
Regards,
Marianne

jimkilgallon (0) 2008-08-15 3:41

Hi Way
These Quechan dolls are very photogenic, with the clothes they wear being so colourful. However what I like about this shot is that you have kept this quite muted. A lot of people including myself would have been tempted to smash the brightness up and saturated to show this so much more of the colours. This looks very natural, I had the honour to visit a small Quechan village a couple of miles outside Cusco and was astounded by the peoples warmness considering their poverty, very proud people and I loved them for their kindness. The kids are adorable like you say.
Cheers
Jim

lrw1966 (1632) 2008-08-15 5:42

Way Hi:
Marvelous composition of this adorable little doll. She is wonderful and your image of her marvelous, Congratulations, very well done.
Thanks for the note
I hope you have an excellent weekend, my friend.
Larry
USA-tfs

Kielia (8739) 2008-08-15 12:20

Hello Way,
excellent scan and an excellent capture of this charming little girl! Really a beautiful impression with wonderful colours and a nice management of the light. Great work!
Warm regards
Harriet

holmertz (10029) 2008-08-16 7:58

Hello Way,
A very fine portrait and an excellent scan. I would probably have cropped the right side, otherwise a great job.
Regards,
Gert

rodgerg (25115) 2008-08-17 0:32

Hello Way,

A superb and lovely portret. The glance and especially the smile of this child are very well collected. An excellent scan too. Congratulations.
Best regards of Belgium,
Roger

jhm (83446) 2008-08-17 3:38

Hello Way,

Notwithstanding the difficult sun took you a very lovely portrait of this young girl.
I like the smile on her face and the lovely eyes, my compliments for this scanned picture, very well done, TFS.

Have a nice sunday,
John.

danos (33386) 2008-08-17 8:51

Hello Way,
what a portrait of this Peruvian child dressed with her traditional Quechuan outfits.I like her glance as the her cute face.The quality of the scanned film is very good.

Regards,Danos

adores (15783) 2008-08-17 18:05

Hi Way!
What a sweet smile you captured here! The little girl is making a perfect pose for the photo.Very well framed!

mikele_pl (2304) 2008-08-18 14:41

Hi Way,
this is a cool picture. You've traveled to so many different places and seen so many cultures! This one is closer to my next destination which hopefully will be Central America. Your picture makes me want to go there even more. Well done!
Greetings
michal

patdeph (18396) 2008-08-19 2:32

helo Way
I completly agree with you,this little girl is so lovely that I can understand you would like to take her home with you!It the same for me during my trips,sometimes I fall in love with the kids,and it's difficult to leave them!
I love the clothes,the smile,the sweet expression of this little girl,yes,she is like a doll!Just one thing,maybe it could be possible to remove the dress on the right by PP,without changing the frame,to make this photo perfect!
Regards
Pascale

angela926 (1882) 2008-08-19 17:44

Hello Way,
Lovely portrait of this beautiful little girl, she does
look like a doll, very sweet! excellent sharpness and
good details, nice light and beautiful vivid colors,
well done.
Angela

Silversnow (2121) 2008-08-19 17:47

Great expression of that little girl, that smile is gold :)

maloutim (4061) 2008-08-20 1:18

Hi Way!
This is such a delightful portrait of a little girl! And so original in the way that she is wearing her everyday clothes rather than festival-reserved dress! I like the way you have cropped the photo, to centre on the child, but kept part of her mother, which shows that she too is dressed in the same way.
Thanks for sharing.
MarieLouise.

zmey (7282) 2008-09-05 11:39

hello way

gorgeous expression in the little one's face. her outfit displays fantastic detail. just not sure about the light. i would have loved to see her sparkles in her eyes...

regards,
kristaps