On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:01:57 -0600 "Christine Aguila" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Subash: > > I'd crop everything on the left out--the guy's eyes look weird--crop > up to the line in that box thing the guy is sitting in front of-- the > women look beautiful & there's a fun juxtaposition of pattern in the > roof of the boat & their skirts--make them the main focus--this will > probably give it a square crop, but I love square crops, but you > might not :-). Anyway, I think this one could be a real winner > without the guy. > http://jeyan.jalbum.net/Kerala/slides/Shooting%20for%20a%20mallu%20film%20aboard%20a%20houseboat%20:-).html thank you Christine for the inputs. this was a shoot for a song and dance sequence for a film (they are so much a part of the structure of indian films, even 'slumdog millionaire', made i would guess for a primarily western audience, gives an acknowledging nod with a sequence tagged on at the very end ;-)) and there is so much voyeurism involved in the thing that i thought the guy's eyes did add a creepy feel. ;-) of course i could have misjudged the whole thing too. thanks for the detailed comments once again... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

