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Just for fun and we did have fun :) . Just a family snap.



Looks as if I should leave the orig. image until I get some better skills with LR and eventually CS6 ;)

Many thanks for the comments!

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Tom
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alfredo_tomato said:
The way she clutches her school supplies to her heart says something about her character.
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I think that the best images of a foreign country reveal always something political.

Women and children in Islamic regions have great problems in getting a proper schooling, and yet they are the hope of everyone.

That gentle awareness is what seduces me most in the girl, although I might see things.

Please remember that Kashmir is a war torn country, so nothing is innocent as it seems.

Am.
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This is a beautiful little girl! You took a great picture of her. You caught the magic inside her with this shot, I do believe.

As all good photographers know "The Eyes Have It!" You did capture this aspect of the subject. Everything else is just fluff!!
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Don
 
Am, although you make some valid points, and I am not getting into the history of Kashmir :( , we did find a very "up-beat" attitude with the many we spoke to.

This is another one shot wonder with the D700,70-200vrII while we were moving at about 40kph. They were roadside. I actually had to crop some of the right side since the side mirror of the SUV was in frame.

Not a great shot but it does show that the women are very much in evidence. It was even more obvious in Ladakh where women, with/without children, would be waiting by the side of the road for rides. Sort of their equiv. of hitchhiking :) Lots of photos and all smiles ;) .

I have no idea what they are laughing about, my view in the direction they are looking, was blocked by a bus :( . ISO 6400



For quite some time tourism has been geared for Indian tourists ( and there are many) but the State and those involved in the Tourist Industry are working hard to get foreign tourists to visit.

I do not consider myself a photographer. I am reasonably competent shooting birds and sport but I tend to shoot people, candids, documentation, where, and as I find them.

This is actually one of my favourites :) .
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Anticipate the Light and wing it when you get it wrong

Tom
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tommiejeep said:
Shot from the vehicle when it slowed for a bus. I did ask her permission :) . Very first effort with LR4.1 so have at it! :) . Ted, if you are around... I will get an LR4 book :( , :).

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All coments will be very much appreciated
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Brings to mind the famous Afghan girl photo by Steve Macnulty, what a wonderful shot you made here!
 
In rereading my post I thought I might add another thought.

I did not mean to say, in my original comment, that anything else you photograph is fluff except the eyes of the subject. The thought I was trying to convey was directed toward the inclination among photographers today to photograph so much that is not all that interesting. I feel that one of the most important types of photography is people. And if you do not capture the expression in the eyes you miss out on what I feel is the most important element in portraiture.

I feel you are my type of photographer. Your pictures of people show a real joy of life. The most crucial aspect of art, I feel is, "Do I enjoy looking at it, and do I want to go back and look at it again and again?" These two criteria definitely apply to your photographs, as far as I am concerned.

Best wishes,

Don
eagle2a said:
This is a beautiful little girl! You took a great picture of her. You caught the magic inside her with this shot, I do believe.

As all good photographers know "The Eyes Have It!" You did capture this aspect of the subject. Everything else is just fluff!!
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Don
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Don
 
Don, I really appreciate your comments. I'm getting too old to change my style much but M43 will probably move me closer to people unless I love the 75 1.8 ;) .
Cheers,
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Tom
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Thanks Jere. Same part of the wourld but do not think the image will reach iconic status... lol . She is definately a natural 'poster girl' :) An framed A4 is on its way (with some other photos of people we met) . I hope she likes it.
Cheers,
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Tom
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Tommie, I am not pretending people to play PJ or getting involved in guerrilla. Ever.

Probably all depends on which side of Kashmir you crossed, and besides relationship between India and Pak, are improving lately, although they hoard ballistic missiles at each other.

Another lovely portrait full of life, you surely have a quick eye considering the speed of the car.

I am just trying to shape my opinion, while photography is changing. As you know we get footage from the Arab revolutions mainly from the demonstrator's Iphones. Nothing to sing about, but they tell the truth.

One of course can just do tourism, or better culture. I have a delightful Tanka from Kashmir that I bought in Dharamsala, and it is a device to meditate on the Tibetan God of Compassion. So why not catching a moment of fleeting beauty?

But it reminds me also that the great McCurry was shooting there and after a while understood that Nat Geo would buy from him portraits like yours, not the actual documentation about AFPAK guerrilla he had started with. He became an Embedded, which I found sad after remembering the pictures of McCullin in Vietnam, who was not embedded, and showed incredible butcheries.

So it's about ph/y not about you. I think I took a stance by saying that you didn't need to correct the background of your girl. I am all for envirionmental portraits, instead of stuffy bokeh. And I coundn't be more happy to see Kashmiri women having fun, like in your piccie. Just remember the other side of things.

Am.
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amalric said:
I am just trying to shape my opinion, while photography is changing. As you know we get footage from the Arab revolutions mainly from the demonstrator's Iphones. Nothing to sing about, but they tell the truth.
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:) One man's 'activist' is another man's 'anarchist', one man's 'freedom fighter' is another man's 'terrorist' but 'spin' is 'spin' ;) . Truth??? I remember the '5 O'clock Follies' ( ;) ) very well and knew, and worked with, many of the correspondents/PJs/photogs.

Enough of my views on the state of TV journalism ;)
amalric said:
Am.
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Cheers,

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Anticipate the Light and wing it when you get it wrong

Tom
http://taja.smugmug.com/
 
Jere Landis said:
tommiejeep said:
Shot from the vehicle when it slowed for a bus. I did ask her permission :) . Very first effort with LR4.1 so have at it! :) . Ted, if you are around... I will get an LR4 book :( , :).

E-M5, 45 1.8 at f3.5, iso 200, 1/400



All coments will be very much appreciated
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Anticipate the Light and wing it when you get it wrong

Tom
http://taja.smugmug.com/
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Brings to mind the famous Afghan girl photo by Steve Macnulty, what a wonderful shot you made here!
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Yes, and wonderful look she has, very pure one

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

God always take the simplest way.
 
tommiejeep said:
amalric said:
I am just trying to shape my opinion, while photography is changing. As you know we get footage from the Arab revolutions mainly from the demonstrator's Iphones. Nothing to sing about, but they tell the truth.
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:) One man's 'activist' is another man's 'anarchist', one man's 'freedom fighter' is another man's 'terrorist' but 'spin' is 'spin' ;) . Truth??? I remember the '5 O'clock Follies' ( ;) ) very well and knew, and worked with, many of the correspondents/PJs/photogs.

Enough of my views on the state of TV journalism ;)
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Well, the BBC, Arte' and Euronews' TV journalism is a bit different. They check their news every time they can, and they have interesting ones all the time, while using social media.

Am.
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I lost my innocence in Eritrea. It seems that colonialisms' greatest crime is the mess they left for others to clean.

Michael Wrong wrote a fine book on the ravages of colonial rule. "I Didn't Do it For You." Michael Wrong. I have a friend who had a terrible crush on her. He was one of her sources.

That's not all that troubles Kashmir, but it sure didn't help.

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