Girl With Red Scarf, a photo from Red Sea, Inland

Photographer's Note

Keeping in my style of shooting portraits with the eyes being the feature - I asked this girl in a red scarf to try holding her head scarf up to her eyes. She was on the beach selling bracelets, and, yes I bought one before asking for her shot.

A 'behind the scenes' shot is in the workshop.

Selmik, judesta, patdeph, dareco, jusninasirun, skippy007 has marked this note useful

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dcawker (5717) 2009-04-03 8:59

Wow, just great! Love the tones, colors, and expression in her eyes as well. Regards, Doug

smarcell (19965) 2009-04-03 9:02

Really a beautiful portrait.
Her eyes speak for the rest of her face
Regards Stefano

Selmik (3641) 2009-04-03 9:41

Hi David,
wonderful portrait,colors and composition are great;they says - eyes are the mirror of the soul.Your nice work proves that.
Thank You,
Mike

BurhanettinMasa (641) 2009-04-03 10:20

Great job, but I'm mostly fascinated by the red headscarf.

Regards,
Burhan

judesta (1006) 2009-04-03 12:18

Hi David
Her eyes are either squinting in the sun or she has a big grin under that awesome red scarf, either way this is brilliant. I like the way you have included the bracelets adding to the overall story of the photo. As for the workshop I'd love to see her without the scarf, I'd kill for her lips! She is beautiful, you do her justice.
Cheers
Jude

patdeph (35750) 2009-04-03 13:17

hello David
her eyes are splendid,and there is a great harmony of colours between the different elements of the photo!The bracelet has exactly the same colour than the eyes and the scarf,whose red colours enhances the beauty of the brown skin!I love your very close framing!Really wonderful!
Regards
Pascale

sacimar (38173) 2009-04-03 13:39

Hi David,

beautiful portrait, good colours and details, I like the eyes, good composition, tfs,

Regards

Sergio

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batalay (41261) 2009-04-04 15:49

Hello David,

I love this incisive portrait featuring the lovely eyes of the subject. You've captured her soul. Although it truly is a beautiful photograph, you might want to experiment — cropping the frame so that one of her eyes is squarely on the vertical centerline. That is the way the great portrait painters (Leonardo in his portraits of three women — Mona Lisa, included — Rembrandt in his miraculous psychological portraits, etc.) seem to have exercised this rule intuitively. (I wrote a book on the subject). In any event, a great job.

Warm regards,

Bulent

SteveH (8220) 2009-04-04 18:03

Hi Dave, As others have said, inclusion of the beads is a great addition. Her eyes are great - smiling and sharp . Her skin texture looks a bit smooth, perhaps a bit less noise reduction? cheers, Steve

Flavia (10352) 2009-04-04 21:35

Hi David,

Such amazing portrait! Her eyes are stuning beautiful and had them framed by her red scarf was a ingenious ideia.

Regards,

Flavia

dareco (17136) 2009-04-04 22:22

Such pretty smiling eyes :) I like the expression and detail. Nice work, and thank you also for the ws version.

Docarmo (9767) 2009-04-10 10:40

Hi David,
What a beautiful portrait! Beautiful, beautiful, brown smiling eyes! You framed it very well, in my opinion.
I like to see the "behind the scenes" too.
Thanks for sharing,
MCV

jusninasirun (17529) 2009-04-12 21:34

Hi Dave,

Top class portraiture registered with so much details with the red scarf and beads blend well with the brown eyes girl.

Excellent work and TFS,
Regards,
Jusni

skippy007 (12510) 2009-05-03 22:56

Hello David, Amongst the thumbnails this one caught my attention, I think it was the red. Beautiful smiling eyes, Excellent idea to ask her to cover up, I could not help bur wonder what the rest of her face was doing, smiling I expect.
Thanks
Santo

cao (0) 2009-07-08 17:52