the short story of a headscarf Photo

Photographer’s Note

In the small village of Somkaya (about 40km from Dogubayazit, east Turkey), coming out of the Coranic school accompanied by several girls that you had seen before, I noticed that in the sunshine the light cotton veil of one of them was playing nice shadows on her face.

The girl, seeing that I would take her portrait, took off her veil and posed with her hair free but after having explained that I actually liked the effect, she wore it again ; her friends became a bit jealous and each of them wanted to get her portrait with the same shawl.

This is the last of the series of shots.
In that village and in that area, headscarves are not worn by everyone, unlike in the north east of the country (from Erzurum till the Black sea coast).

ChrisJ, delkoo, ls7902, pinaytraveller, Vasa, eversmile, PixelTerror, zmey, papagolf21, cirano, didemay has marked this note useful

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ninaL (19582) 2008-09-20 6:05

Un très beau portrait...
Excellent cadrage et une magnifique utilisation de la lumière en plaçant la demoiselle au bon endroit...
Beaucoup de charme et de fraîcheur.
Amitiés, Grazyna.

delkoo (34754) 2008-09-20 6:19

bonjour catherine,
j'adore le finesse du voile qui encadre ce visage souriant, ton portrait est bien composé, bien dans le contexte, avec le village en toile de fond,

didier

ls7902 (6362) 2008-09-20 6:31

Hello Catherine,
Sweet portrait & smile. Wonderful sharpness & background blur. Headscarves commonly worm by women in my country are probably less intricate ... I don't know ... I'll pay more attention now after looking at your photo. Regards. Latiff.

atif_ge (674) 2008-09-20 6:35

nice portrait. u have a deep observation.

pinaytraveller (54) 2008-09-20 7:02

Hi Catherine! What a lovely capture. I love how the girl is framed offcenter and slightly looking away from the camera (perhaps looking at her friends?). The sharpness also locks our eyes on her and the shadows of the veil that fall on her face just frame her face perfectly. COngratulations!
Pauline

Vasa (6302) 2008-09-20 8:20

Il y a tout qui plait sur ce portrait. En plus on voit bien l'ambiance autour. Le sourire qui seduit. Merci chere Catherine.

Amities,

Branko

wolf38 (13107) 2008-09-20 8:42

Hello Catherine. Photo and text are a successful combination for our knowledge over stranger customs. Ideally for TE. Outstanding. Best regards, Wolfgang.

MarcT (21103) 2008-09-20 9:48

Salut Cath,
Superbe portrait de jeune fille dans ces habits traditionnels.
La lumière la met très bien en valeur...
Amitiés
Marc

eversmile (6399) 2008-09-20 10:04

Hi Catherine
I like your short story and the big warm smile on the girl's face. We can easily believe that she feels like she is the winner, and there's no shadow in this joy except that the veil create like a tribal tatoo on her skin under the sun. Well done.
Regards
Marine

faubry (32417) 2008-09-20 11:29

Bonsoir cath, tu as ici une très bonne lumière sur le visage de cette jeune fille, superbe portrait,
passe un ebonne soirée
bises
francine

cirano (1283) 2008-09-20 11:39

Slav Catherîne,
Te portreya jina Kurd ya ciwan tevli çarika wê kenê wê li pêş gund gelek rind kişandiye.
TFS.
Dûrzan

PixelTerror (86837) 2008-09-20 11:56

salut Cath,
Superbe lumiere et tres belle mise au point et pdf sur ton portrait, l'expressione st charmante et j'aime bien le fait d'avoir garde du contexte en arriere plan.
Bon week end JY

scalerman (25787) 2008-09-20 13:04

Catherine: simple, effective compo, replete with environmental detail. I think you know this is straight in the vein of portraiture I prefer. great, c

patshoo (944) 2008-09-20 13:13

Attractive character portrait,You're capture the right moment and expressed her charming smile,Good placing position of her with good control light and well bokeh in BG too.Good work,TFS.

zmey (7282) 2008-09-20 16:53

hello catherine

another fantastic portrait. you say, this is the short story of a headscaref, but to me this seems like a strong "this is where i come from" story. attire details, composition, expression: all is excellent!

my compliments,
kristaps

MarianneS (14408) 2008-09-21 0:32

Bonjour Catherine,
Un bien beau portrait pour cette jeune fille sous le soleil, qui t'offre son joli sourire.
Son voile est finement brodé et ta photo permet de bien l'apprécier.
Bises. Marianne

papagolf21 (56733) 2008-09-21 0:43

Bonjour, chère Catherine,
J'ai beaucoup aimé cette galerie de portraits présentée en atelier.
Il faut qu'il y ait une certaine communion entre le photographe et la personne "croquée" pour donner à la réalisation une vérité.
Ici, encore, la photo est d'excellente qualité (vous maniez avez talent le Canon Ixus 850 Is).
Très bel éclairage et le cadrage est choisi avec soin.
Amitiés.
Philippe

ChrisJ (70443) 2008-09-21 0:54

Salut Catherine

A superb portrait, with good use of a shallow dof, & superb fg sharpness. Wonderful colour with a subtle warm cold colour contrast between the blue sky & warm skin tones. Merci et amities!

didemay (2435) 2008-09-21 2:57

Hello Cath,
The shawl is perfectly knitted or wowen but the owner of the shawl is sooo pretty in the WS, I really liked her dark hair and blushed cheeks. It seems you had a nice sincere conversation with this girl - as always- that's why she gave you a big, sincere, naive smile. Thanks for sharing.
Lots of love,
D:)

trekks (14334) 2008-09-22 2:29

hi Cath

A smile a day...takes the devil away. Very much the look of people from this region near the mountains of Turkey, Afgan and surrounding. Always interesting to see the dress code of people from different regions.

tfs, bill

marietom (32076) 2008-09-23 4:26

salut Cath,

Joli sourire, dans une superbe lumière !
Bonne soirée
Bises
Marie

rbcy1974 (20746) 2008-09-23 5:24

Bonjour Cath
il estg magnifique ce portrait,
j'adore l'ffect du voile et ausi l'arreire plan qui nous motre tres bien le village.
Bien fait
A+
Daniel

Silvio1953 (42769) 2008-09-24 10:15

Ciao Caterina, gran bel ritratto di questa donna dallo splendido sorriso, eccellente nitidezza, brava,
Con Amicizia
Silvio

kschanna (6) 2008-12-01 1:52