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    Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

    It was clicked in Jodhpur, I waited for 2 hours for a woman to come with yellow or blue saree (Indian Traditional Dress.), but i was lucky to get a woman in red saree.

    Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

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    Looks OK to me. Plenty of sharp focus depth.

    Possibly you could try adding a little bit of highlight brightness, but mask out the distant bright areas and keep the shadows dark.

    But this current slightly darker version may actually have a more natural feel to the scene.

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    Re: Hands Walk . C&C Welcome

    Nice one, cropped enough as is.

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    Re: Hands Walk . C&C Welcome

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff F View Post
    Looks OK to me. Plenty of sharp focus depth.

    Possibly you could try adding a little bit of highlight brightness, but mask out the distant bright areas and keep the shadows dark.

    But this current slightly darker version may actually have a more natural feel to the scene.
    Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestions

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    Re: Hands Walk . C&C Welcome

    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowman View Post
    Nice one, cropped enough as is.
    Thanks a lot for your valuable review

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    Raj, I admire your patience in waiting so long for someone with the right color clothing to walk into the scene (I wouldn't be able to ). I probably would have let her get down the stairs a little further so the contrast would be more noticeable, but then she would be larger in the frame and you might lose the nice line created by the stairs that leads us right to her. Well thought out and executed.

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    This is what is meant by "MAKING" rather than "TAKING" a picture. You saw what you wanted and you waited until the scene was the way you planned. I would think about opening the shadows on the woman as well as perhaps increasing the saturation of the reds.

    I played with this image a bit along those lines and also cropped it to a square format. I hope you don't mind me posting this version...

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    +1 to Richard's thoughts, Rajneesh.

    The woman is the focal point of this image; all of the leading lines; the stairs, the gutter and the pipe's lead the viewer's eyes up towards her. While the hands on the wall are an important compositional element, they play a more minor role in this image. I would definitely brighten up the woman and would also darken up (slightly) the areas behind her.

    I would also go with the vertical / portrait orientation that Richard used, as it eliminates much of the unnecessary negative space on the left hand side of the image. I think a 4:5 ratio would probably work here.

    One question for you: What is the significance of the painted red hands on the wall? I remember seeing this quite often in Nandgaon and Barsana.



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    Re: Hands Walk . C&C Welcome

    Quote Originally Posted by Sergio M. View Post
    Raj, I admire your patience in waiting so long for someone with the right color clothing to walk into the scene (I wouldn't be able to ). I probably would have let her get down the stairs a little further so the contrast would be more noticeable, but then she would be larger in the frame and you might lose the nice line created by the stairs that leads us right to her. Well thought out and executed.

    Sergio
    Thanks a lot for your kind review and Suggestion

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    Quote Originally Posted by rpcrowe View Post
    This is what is meant by "MAKING" rather than "TAKING" a picture. You saw what you wanted and you waited until the scene was the way you planned. I would think about opening the shadows on the woman as well as perhaps increasing the saturation of the reds.

    I played with this image a bit along those lines and also cropped it to a square format. I hope you don't mind me posting this version...

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    Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions Please feel free to suggest and post anything

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver View Post
    +1 to Richard's thoughts, Rajneesh.

    The woman is the focal point of this image; all of the leading lines; the stairs, the gutter and the pipe's lead the viewer's eyes up towards her. While the hands on the wall are an important compositional element, they play a more minor role in this image. I would definitely brighten up the woman and would also darken up (slightly) the areas behind her.

    I would also go with the vertical / portrait orientation that Richard used, as it eliminates much of the unnecessary negative space on the left hand side of the image. I think a 4:5 ratio would probably work here.

    One question for you: What is the significance of the painted red hands on the wall? I remember seeing this quite often in Nandgaon and Barsana.



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    Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestions really love the crop.

    If there are multiple hands on the wall of a house means some girl got married in that house. It is a tradition to paste the hand prints on the wall during the marriage.

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    Re: Hands Walk . C&C Welcome

    Quote Originally Posted by fotugraphy View Post
    If there are multiple hands on the wall of a house means some girl got married in that house. It is a tradition to paste the hand prints on the wall during the marriage.
    Thanks for the information. It looks like that house must have had a big wedding with all those hand prints!

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