Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: RSL on May 02, 2014, 10:23:14 am
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Vietnam, 1965
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Nice, this is how I imagine Vietnam with the river, palm trees and house boats and a great sky.
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Is that how American presence there is known these days, as tourism?
P.S. Sorry, Russ, couldn't resist :)
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Typical tourist, taking touristy shots of the local curiosities! Just a joke - you were far from a tourist on that mission.
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You may have been a tourist and this is, evidently, a picture, but a "tourist picture" it is not!
Nicely done. BTW - Any thought about cloning out the one white post in the foreground. I know in the film days we would never have dreamt of it, but with digital, it could be gone in a moment without altering the intent of the photograph. Just a thought.
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I doubt I'd have been able to resist either, Slobodan. But I called it a tourist picture because, as Seamus pointed out, all it says is that I was there, though admittedly not as a tourist. And Terry, you're right. The Bassac river in the Vietnam delta is an interesting waterway. I don't know about cloning out the white post in the foreground. I guess if it bothered me, instead of cloning it out I'd select it and reduce its brightness, a thing you could do in film days by the way with some very precise burning.
Anyhow, thanks all for looking.
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Dodging and burning in the darkroom - don't ever want to go back there.