tea picker Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

A photo from exactly two years ago.

A tea picker at this tea plantation place . Tea pickers use large lightweight bamboo baskets to transport the fresh plucked tea leaves. The baskets are emptied at nearby locations to avoid carrying too heavy a load for a long period.

jaywalker, bibiweb, PixelTerror, delkoo, singuanti, danos, IgorDeleze, flory, saylan-cb, Tue, alainh has marked this note useful

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jaywalker (12302) 2007-07-09 14:16

Hi Cessy, A very well composed shot, the tea picker in the sea of green, excellent DOF & superbly framed, this must be hard work, TFS, kind regards Wilson.

lestans (15486) 2007-07-09 14:21

Hi Cessy!

I like to see so much green! And a careful worker.
Her hat is an important element of the composition.
Maybe you could use a wider depht of field - anyway the subject is perfect!
Nice work

Livia

jasmis (50967) 2007-07-09 14:56

Interesting "man of work" photo with smart DOF.
Regards,

Greg1949 (8519) 2007-07-09 15:48

Cessy, this is a very good shot I think. The slight motion of the picking hand makes it so. The rest is colorful and detailed and the expression on the picker's face is good, and even thought the leaves form a solid green mass there is a diagonal component that makes it ver exciting. Well seen.

Greg

cbrman (19049) 2007-07-09 22:53

Hello Cessy,

Effectivement, le même vert dans les champs de thé et dans les vignes que je présente ! Le cadrage est très bon et permet de mettre l'accent sur le travail de cette personne qui semble absorbée et concentrée !
Bravo !

A+

Dominique

vincz (19045) 2007-07-10 0:34

Great composition with this woman emerging from this sea of leaves and light. Great colors, the hat giving a nice touch in all this green. Very well done.

bibiweb (8) 2007-07-10 0:37

Hi Cessy,
A nice daily life scene from Indonesia. I like the way this woman seems totally drowned in the the middle of the tea plantation and the blur on her hand give a pleasant dynamic touch to the compo.
Have a nice day.
Brigitte

PixelTerror (86797) 2007-07-10 1:24

Hi Cessy,
I see you still have good stuff to post from your Indonesia trip, I like the right framing here because the eye is drawn at once to the tea picker.
when is your next home leave trip ?
Have a nice day,
JEan-Yves

delkoo (34726) 2007-07-10 2:07

hi cessy
the woman couldn't have been better framed with the solid green areas around.

cheers
didier

holmertz (9939) 2007-07-10 4:59

Hello Cessy,
A perfect composition and an interesting glimpse of the hard work that lies behind our breakfast cup of tea.
Regards,
Gert

Silvio1953 (42725) 2007-07-10 11:06

Hi Cessy, splendid composition with wonderful colors, I like working woman in a sea of green, very well done, ciao Silvio

ndb1958 (9248) 2007-07-10 13:47

Hi Cessy, how nice to see an image of Indonesia again. Beautiful. Great colours and a nice composition of the lady working on the teaplantation. Nino

singuanti (15240) 2007-07-10 19:14

Hi Cessy. I like very much the way you used the tight DOF here to seamlessly control your focus. By doing that it actually helps accentuate a foreground out of the tea leaves. It looks to be rather hot and humid when you took this. When I think of Java I think of coffee of course but not tea. Thanks for enlightening me! tfs Cessy.

danos (33192) 2007-07-11 4:11

Hello cessy,
very nice the tea picker in this greenery field of tea.Excellent the contrasted colours as and the light too. I don't think you could better the quality or the sharpness, it is just outstanding. It's a superb capture.Well done.

Regards,Danos

coco (28090) 2007-07-11 14:49

Hi Cessy.

Wonderful work where the scene and the deep are very well used.
You shot in the right moment and we can appreciate a very nice moment. We are close this woman but she doesn't mind our presence.

Well done.

jrj (34779) 2007-07-12 3:12

Simple and beatiful cessy. The tea picker in the middle of the field is well captured and placed in the offcentered position. fine daily life shot

IgorDeleze (9247) 2007-07-12 5:45

Hello Karina,
That's a beautiful picture.
Your compo and framing are just perfect.
Great shot
Greetings.
Igor

happypoppeye (4064) 2007-07-12 5:48

Great compostion Cessy. Perfect placement of the woman. The colors are excellent with the bright yellow and red hat really standing out against the greenery. Nice and sharp and perfect focus point with DOF. Just an all around great looking photo.

Nice work.
John

flory (4804) 2007-07-13 1:45

ciao Cessy,
certainly,the simple images are the best when are taken good;)..the tea picker between that green field give me an idea about how they work!
nice day,
flory

quetzal (3467) 2007-07-14 1:00

Hello Cessy,
Beautiful scene well composed and which opposes vast wide tea to be gathered and only one gatherer at work. It must be a heavy work.
Have a good day
Jean-Louis

livinitout (938) 2007-07-14 9:05

As always you have some amasing colours here and the subject itself is great. Looks like a very peacefull occupation, or at least the picutre shows a calm moment of the womans day. Good positioning the subject. One suggestion I would make is make the greens a bit more darker to bring out more colours out of the tea leaves. Make them pop more.
Jacek

saylan-cb (12726) 2007-07-16 1:27

Hi Cessy
A very good composition,great colours and nice DOF,superb work.
TFS/Regards

Davidwh (3654) 2007-07-18 9:03

Hi Cessy,
This is a wonderful composition.The subject seems to be almost floating on that sea of green leaves.The focus not too deep so as to slightly soften her surroundings.The detail, clarity and colour spot on.Well done and take care.
Regards, david

rbcy1974 (20746) 2007-07-19 1:46

HellO Cessy
Very nice way of isolating this lady among the fields, very beautifully done.
Regards
Daniel
PS I am going to indonesia on friday.

banyanman (7737) 2007-07-19 6:36

We see a lot of pictures from tea plantations on TE, Cessy, but I like this one because of the tight framing and the placement of your subject in the shot. However, I think an even tighter crop and conversion to a 6x4 format (which to me always looks more natural) would would have worked well too (see Workshop). Cheers . . . David

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Tue (25608) 2007-07-20 12:12

Hej Cessy,
Great photo of this tea plantation and the tea picker. The tea picker is placed very well in the composition. The many leafs create a great repetitive pattern. The colours are really pleasing. Well done!
Regards,
Lars

hdl (6737) 2007-07-24 4:28

Hi Cessy. Perfect framing, perfect positioning, colours, mood... Great shot.

alainh (35387) 2007-08-21 3:11

hello Cessy
two years ago it was a fine picture. today it's always a beautiful one.
have a nice day Cessy
alain

oochappan (22032) 2007-08-23 6:15

Very nice to pick her out working in the midts of all green tea with her typical hat Cessy.
Henk