La Senora,

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La Señora

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Dave Humphries]

Jack - hi,

If this were mine, I would straighten the verticals and consider cloning out the high tension pylon thingy.

I do (unusually) agree with your decision to leave all that blank wall on the left, it puts La Señora in a good place compositionally.

PS Mod Comment - I had to edit the thread title to remove the accented 'n', since that causes the thread to show up as "Unknown title" in the Latest Threads listing which many of us use to see new posts.

I have put the correct title in your first post instead, sorry for the inconvenience.

[rpcrowe]

I might consider burning in the buildings image right....

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Thanks John.

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Hey Dave,
Ah...it would appear you're right about the plumbosity, the verts could be tweaked a couple of degrees.
So are you unusually agreeing with me, or just agreeing about the wall on the left?

As to the pole and power lines, upper RHS, I did think about cloning them out, but decided that, had I removed them then I would be stuck with this blank upper RHS. So to my mind I left them in to eliminate a chunk of blank sky.
As for removing the tilde (~) no worries, never occurred to me that it would/could be problematic.

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Richard, thanks for commenting. The image was taken in the morning and the woman was in a bit of shadow and the buildings were in bright early morning sunshine. I'll play with it and see if I can do something with it.

[IzzieK]

I can see where you are coming from, Jack...I agree about the blank wall but I think it needs cropping at the top and a little bit down the bottom to make it stand more stronger...I agree about not removing anything else in the shot as it forms the environment of where she is...Nice job, Jack.

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Thanks Izzie, I tried a couple different crops but ended up with this one as it just seemed (to me) to work best; crop too much and the woman is too much of the photo, too little and she disappears. I liked the scale of this image.

[Dave Humphries]

So are you unusually agreeing with me, or just agreeing about the wall on the left?

Agreeing with you about leaving the wall in the composition - it is unusual in that I am normally the first person to suggest cropping off such areas.

As to the pole and power lines, upper RHS, I did think about cloning them out, but decided that, had I removed them then I would be stuck with this blank upper RHS. So to my mind I left them in to eliminate a chunk of blank sky.

Very true.

As for removing the tilde (~) no worries, never occurred to me that it would/could be problematic.

Not to worry - I wouldn't expect anyone to know - I only mentioned it in case you wondered why I had edited the thread and your post. It's just a quirk of the the forum, something we mods keep an eye on and fix when it arises (every few months).

Have a plumbostuous day
Dave

[xpatUSA]

PS Mod Comment - I had to edit the thread title to remove the accented 'n', since that causes the thread to show up as "Unknown title" in the Latest Threads listing which many of us use to see new posts.

Totally OT: should you ever have to do the same for "feliz año nuevo", best not because I once did that for a Mexican Customer.

Turned out I had wished him a happy new anus

[bnnrcn]

Very nice image Jack I agree with Richard about burning the buildings and cars on the RHS.

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Thanks Binnur, I'll play around with it and see how it looks.

[FootLoose]

That is a great composition, Jack. If it were mine, I would play around with the curves to put some drama in it. For me, it is lacking shadows at the moment.

[Inkanyezi]

It does touch a few strings of mine, and I sure think of the Carribbean when I see this image. I think it's ok the little "burning in" that has been done by vignetting and the burning out of the sunlit side of the street. That's really how I feel it should be. I particularly like the moment caught, where I see the topside of one of her zapatillas. Many people use the soft foam "crocs" because they are kind to the feet, and maybe particularly for elderly diabetics, they can save the foot from circulatory problems. The transformer up the pole is one of the features that makes me place the colonial style street in the Carribbean, but it doesn't look like any part of Cuba that I know, for some building features, particularly the beams that protrude from the wall. The cars are also rather non-Cuban.

I like the image.

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Thanks Greg. She in fact is in 'shadow'. It was early-ish morning and the sun is off to the left, the buildings and vehicles on the right are all in direct light.

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Urban, you are correct in recognizing the 'colonial' feel, while culturally similar to Cuba the location is actually San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Thanks for looking and commenting.

[KimC]

Hi Jack. I love this woman and the composition.... wonderful find.

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Hi Kim, and thank you very much!