Thanks Shel, Boris and David for valuable comments. Shel, I really appreciate your detailed feedback and comments. They really help. I read almost all of your posts and benefit from them.
I am understanding the meaning of contrast and crop slowly. I typically present what I had shoot. No crop afterwards or changes of any kind. I don't have PS but use Paint Shop Pro (PSP). I will try the techniques there and try to learn. I am pleased that Boris noticed the red-shot eyes. They had attracted me. The persons in background were not incidental though leaving a man half was not planned. The person had moved while I fumbled with my manual focus lens. I liked the idea of trying B&W and will experiment in future but in this case, I wanted the red eyes. The overall pinkish tone, I agree should go away. The man-cut-in-half wasn't the boss. The boss was quite bossy and was telling me not to take the snap but the cut-man wanted his snap and I wanted this guy's snaps. I don't speak the local language so couldn't even communicate. Each print is expensive so here, I wanted to take only a single shot. I am glad it turned out good :-) I am now planning to buy Joseph Tainter's Sigma 70-300 APO lens to try more of street photography. Gaurav -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gaurav's PAW #7: Why me? Hi Gaurav, This photo clearly shows a little more thought compared to your previous PAW. I like the relationship between the worker, with his intense glare, to the out of focus co-workers in the background. I'm not sure how I feel about the fellow that we only see half of, whether I'd like to see all or none of him, but that's an early-morning-just-having-my-coffee-first-thought on the matter. The photo may benefit from a tighter crop based on fiddling with it a bit by moving it around in a frame in Photoshop. A few alternatives that might give the photo some added impact became apparent. Also, that pinkish cast has once again appeared. Must be the lab or the scanner you're using. A simple automatic adjustment in Photoshop fixed that in a moment. I didn't play around with the photo beyond these actions, but I will a little later and put them up for you to see what I'm trying to describe. Maybe you'll get some ideas from the suggestions. I can't help but wonder how this might look in B&W, however, I've not tried a conversion yet. Still, it seems that with the right technique, this could become a very intense B&W portrait. I generally "see" in B&W, and that's how I see this photo, although the wonderful skin tones on this gentleman are quite nice, as well. Do you have Photoshop, or a good photo editing program? Your work is moving in a good direction, you've got a good eye for photographing people based on what you've posted here, but the scan and resulting image quality is really poor. Your photos can be improved tremendously with a few small adjustments to contrast, color balance, and cropping. Shel > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2423586&size=lg >
