KevinBarrett wrote:15 has some of the more interesting subject matter, but it is so busy and none of the shapes are easily seen. It is meaningless as a thumbnail, and only a little better blown up.
Yes, I thought the same thing. Actually, they are butchering a pig that they just killed. It is sort of hard to see what is happening though. Probably with some skillful dodging and burning it could be made much better. The woman in photo #16 is holding the pig's entrails.
17 is a good sharp exposure but there's something about its contrast that gives the impression of an overworked photo. I'm not sure what processing you did to it, but it just doesn't have the same raw punch as the others.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. It was a very harsh, bright sunny day and the contrast is tough to handle well. I adjusted it slightly here. What do you think?
Either 9 or 18 has to go. They are both great, but one of them is redundant and I can't decide which I love more. Considered seperately, neither would be on this strike list.
Yes, I was planning to not use both. Do you have a preference?
8 is framed rather oddly and crops the gentlemen's legs at an uncomfortable level.
I agree. See my comments above to Don. Sometimes even when it appears like I could have easily composed differently (and sometimes I could have and wish I did) often things are not as they appear. This photo was made in the village where we stayed on Day 6 of the 2 week trek. It was the next morning and we were gathering our gear and backpacks together to set out. The whole village was out and milling about and looking at us.
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There were no toilets, of course, and not even a hole in the ground. You just wandered off away from the village to do your business. Also, no trees around there. I wondered off alone a couple of hundred meters from the village with a roll of toilet paper, squated down in the open (not even any bushes), and went to it. A couple of minutes later I looked up and there were several boys standing less than 10 meters away just watching me.
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I had my camera sitting on the ground next to me and I quickly raised it up and got this shot:
3 could also have been framed a little better in my opinion. I usually keep heads and faces high in the frame and let a person's full posture tell about them as well. This one would have been much better in a vertical format to accomodate the difference in heights.
Yes, this is cropped a bit and, if I recall correctly, the original has just a bit more of their legs -- not a lot though. I would have to go back to the original scan (made in 2000) to check, but I recall that there was something distracting in the bottom of the frame that I decided to crop out. The main thing I like about this photo is the position of their arms. In the mornings when they felt cold the Irian Jaya people would often hold their arms this way.
11 isn't growing on me. The childrens' hands are too interesting not to have included more of thier arms.
I think this one isn't cropped or if it is then very little so, unfortunately, I don't have more of their arms.
Thanks, Kevin, for your excellent feedback!