Thanks for the comments. Yes your right, its a crocodile in vietnam. Once I get back to my computer, I have a few ideas for that shot. Here are some other ones I quite like from that trip.
Hi cooper,
This is so interesting! I am impressed with your interest in people. Allow me to make some comments.
Images of camels and drivers silhoutted against the dessert sun are almost archetypical shots we all try to get. But still there are an endless variations and intepretations possible. I still find this subject interesting as it is perhaps part of ways of life that will be mostly gone by the end of this century. I wonderc whether you might also have different exposures so that some of the sand texture is available with the shadows? In anycase, I like the picture and wish I cold have been there too!
I wonder what's to the guys right? Is that a mirror cutting off his elbow?
too bad her shoulders so blown out[
Cooper, the blown out dress is not in itself a prblem. If this is in RAW it might still be OK. This picture has a lot of interest as the pitcher for sale catches one's eye then the woman says "I'm here to sell it to you!". It will work in B&W too.
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This image is very packed with detail and color all competing for attention. Most of the feeling of the waterway, the long boat and the lines of the strcutures in the top portion are horizontal, yet the framing is vertical. This is not an easy picture to compose as everything one can see is so busy. For this I'd have made the picture wide and limited the shartp focus to the forground and the boy.
The boy
must be the center of our interest and the subject of the photograph. I'm concerned by the composition, the boy not being placed in an important enough position as far as classic ideas are concerned, for example in the rule of thirds. The latter can always be ignored when some other powerful way of distributing out interest is provided.
This image is worth the effort of trying to bring out the best of all the potential interest. The structures of the opposite bank of the waterway are interesting too and take away from the boy when the lad is not powerfully set in the composition. I would work with this one picture further and if you wish, look at the possibility of having a cropped version of the left portion of the image with just enough of the boat for identification and almost everything above the boys head removed.
Also it might be of value to test whether or not a black and white rendition might present what you saw in a special way that satisfies you.
All in all you have brought us to exotic places and captured something of the wonder. What camera and lens did you use, Cooper?
Thanks for sharing your work!
Asher
