Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-23 Thread Alan C
Intriguing & very well captured. They are fussy, aren't they? Alan C -Original Message- From: Steve Cottrell Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 7:20 PM To: pentax list Subject: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation Recently I was asked to photograph a Sikh wedding, including the preparat

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-23 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/11/16, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >Hmm. I looked at it again. The lines of everyone's eyes, the lines made >by their arms, all converge down at their hands near the bridegrooms >head and face, which is plunged in darkness and hard to see. As much as >their faces might be

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread ann sanfedele
fascinating... and I think the lighting works as it is... The intensity in their faces -- "we have to get this exactly right" I wonder if the young man facing the camera is the grooms brother.. ann On 11/22/2016 12:20 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Recently I was asked to photograph a Sikh

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 22/11/16, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Love the photograph, Cotty, but the rendering in the principal area of >> interest seems a bit too dark. I'd want to lighten up the area around >> the

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Subash Jeyan
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:48:40 + "Steve Cottrell" wrote: > > My interpretation is totally the opposite. I find that my interest is > only in the faces of the men doing the work. agree with you Cotty. what gets my immediate

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Gonz
Very interesting On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 22/11/16, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Love the photograph, Cotty, but the rendering in the principal area of >>interest seems a bit too dark. I'd want to lighten up the area

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/11/16, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >Love the photograph, Cotty, but the rendering in the principal area of >interest seems a bit too dark. I'd want to lighten up the area around >the bridegroom's face and shoulder a little bit so that I could see his >expression and

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Love the photograph, Cotty, but the rendering in the principal area of interest seems a bit too dark. I'd want to lighten up the area around the bridegroom's face and shoulder a little bit so that I could see his expression and gesture. There's enough meat in the photo, even the online JPEG, to

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Marco Alpert
Really like this. - Marco > On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Recently I was asked to photograph a Sikh wedding, including the > preparations for the groom. This was from a sequence of pictures at 8 > o'clock in the morning of the wedding day, in a

RE: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Malcolm Smith
Steve Cottrell wrote: ++ The concentration of the moment is really well caught. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Bob W-PDML
Nicely done > On 22 Nov 2016, at 17:21, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Recently I was asked to photograph a Sikh wedding, including the > preparations for the groom. This was from a sequence of pictures at 8 > [...] > > Very contrasty lighting, I thought the camera coped well,

PESO - Sikh Wedding Preparation

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
Recently I was asked to photograph a Sikh wedding, including the preparations for the groom. This was from a sequence of pictures at 8 o'clock in the morning of the wedding day, in a hotel room in Hounslow, west London, as the groom had his head dress 'applied'. I wasn't the main stills