Young Woman at the market - Southern Ethiopia

[emyp2enz3cai]

Nicely captured.

[NorthernFocus]

Nice progression of images, Manfred. I liked the B/W version other than the grain effect. But the final color version is really nice. Well done.

[bnnrcn]

The image has become excellent with your edit Manfred

[IzzieK]

Beautiful Manfred...nicely done...now about that 2 minutes of complaining about laziness ....

[dubaiphil]

It's fantastic to see a thread like this work it's way through with input from everybody. It's rare these days to get such a collaborative effort on a photo forum

It's a good solid image to start but I wasn't a fan of the grain on the B&W version. Manfred's p.p.ed colour edit takes away the distraction perfectly and really strengthens the final image.

Now a suggestion to Manfred - screenshots and walk through of your processing? It would be great to share this and help everybody out for future reference.

[flashback]

I think the PP you did to end up with the final image is great. It's just that for me, your first, B&W was the one that worked for me. Mostly, it's her eyes, they lock on to mine and one is left to wonder what her day, and her life is like. Thus the color is both a distraction and a lessening of the impact of her eyes, expression and her face. Simply, I don't think color adds anything to the image. All the above said it is a great image with a lot of impact.

[Manfred M]

It's fantastic to see a thread like this work it's way through with input from everybody. It's rare these days to get such a collaborative effort on a photo forum

It's a good solid image to start but I wasn't a fan of the grain on the B&W version. Manfred's p.p.ed colour edit takes away the distraction perfectly and really strengthens the final image.

Now a suggestion to Manfred - screenshots and walk through of your processing? It would be great to share this and help everybody out for future reference.

Thanks for the comments everyone. As this is more of a PP workflow, I will start a separate thread in the PP section and post screen shots and a description of my workflow on this image.

The workflow post is up now at:

Young Woman at the market - Southern Ethiopia - PP Workflow

[Mike Buckley]

It's fascinating to show up after all the other messages have been posted and to see both the progress and final results in the thread. Unquestionably for me, the last version is the best and should be displayed prominently on a wall.