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Many thanks for the response to my last upload and for your good wishes. Taking a break from the big clean up, I went into Lagos on Saturday morning to the Farmers Market, where I saw this dear old lady standing at the entrance begging for a few euros and cents, a reality check indeed, and it helped put into perspective, that the flood damage could be cleaned up, soft furnishings laundered, and furniture dried out and things as good as new again, whilst this IS life for this portuguese lady, and her problems can't be so easily rectified.
Used some motion blur to get rid of a very distracting background, the outside of the market is for colourful quilts, blankets, portuguese flags etc, and I thought it distracted somewhat from this womans plight, and didnt convey what I wanted it to. Still not sure this works so it may not stay.
As always Thanks for Looking
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Life |
| Username: | 
Chant57 |
| Uploaded: | 7 Oct 2008 - 10:56 AM |
| Tags: | Digitally manipulated, Portraits / people |
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| Votes: | 90 |
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A fatastic image full of social questions and meanings. It is a stroke of genius. Not too distant re the subject matter from what we were talking about re the 'migrant mother' image by Dorothea Lange.
Great work and the right choice for the background in my opinion.
I can imagine this would work well in a b&w conversion too.
Excellent work Chant.
Jx
Blur works well. Maybe blurring the other side of her might balance the shot and suggest that as the world around her moves quickly she goes unnoticed and so her world stands still?
Great image.
The picture of the old lady is terrific but I don't like the background (see we're all diferent) as I would have preferred to have her in context, even if the context were a little blurred. As it is I thought it was a theatre shot with some kind of curtain in the background.
I like the study of the old lady, a very humane, sympathetic treatment of a tricky subject. I'm always wary of pictures of the vulnerable, but this has dignity and distance. I have mixed feelings about the backround, somehow it makes her a display exhibit rather than a part of the world we all live in. I think I want the context, however distracting.
Moira
A wonderful capture of this dear lady.
Lovely pose & beautiful colours & detail.
I go with V2 as it does apppear to be more real.
Hilary
A wonderful capture Chant. In spite of her circumstances her poise reflects dignity. v2 for me. Somehow she needs to be seen in the context of those who walk by and who do not come near enough to even be in focus
Helen
works so well & these things make you realise so muc. Good luck on the clean up & keep save
di
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