Morocco

[KLaban]

Biblical scene in Fes, Morocco.

[KLaban]

Big Brother's Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt, Meknes, Morocco.

[KLaban]

Blacksmith, Fes, Morocco.

[Frans Waterlander]

Awesome photos, Keith. On the last one, I would have cloned out the bright white area (window or wall opening?) just above the man.

[KLaban]

Awesome photos, Keith. On the last one, I would have cloned out the bright white area (window or wall opening?) just above the man.

Thanks Frans, appreciated.

Frankly I couldn't decide if it added or detracted. I did consider removing it but it just felt a step too far. I'd be fascinated to know what others here feel about it.

[degrub]

i think it is needed as it shows where the light from the back is coming from on the interior of the shop. Since it is washed out hi key, it doesn't detract to me.

[Frans Waterlander]

i think it is needed as it shows where the light from the back is coming from on the interior of the shop. Since it is washed out hi key, it doesn't detract to me.

In my opinion, the light is overwhelminbly coming from the front.

[KLaban]

i think it is needed as it shows where the light from the back is coming from on the interior of the shop. Since it is washed out hi key, it doesn't detract to me.

Thanks, opinion has been divided when I've shown it to people in person. It would be easy to remove but I tend to be happier with authenticity.

Jury is out.

[KLaban]

OK, here is a version without it.

[Frans Waterlander]

Yes, that's it!

[Jeremy Roussak]

It's marginally better without the window; I think a decent compromise would to darken, without completely removing, it; it is a little distracting in the original.

It's the age-old dilemma: are you a photojournalist, debarred from significant alteration to the scene as it was, or a photographer working only towards a final image which pleases you (and, perhaps, your audience).

I confess I tend very much to the latter.

Jeremy

[KLaban]

[quote author=Jeremy Roussak link=topic=144377.msg1265925#msg1265925 date=1751044772

...It's the age-old dilemma: are you a photojournalist, debarred from significant alteration to the scene as it was, or a photographer working only towards a final image which pleases you (and, perhaps, your audience).

I confess I tend very much to the latter.

Jeremy
[/quote]

Thanks. Moi aussi

[KLaban]

Hmm, Tiger...What Tiger? Fes, Morocco.

[Chris Kern]

It's the age-old dilemma: are you a photojournalist, debarred from significant alteration to the scene as it was . . .

Or, perhaps more accurately, as the mechanical contraption of camera sensor and lens (and optionally in-camera processing) happened to record it.  I'm appalled by news photographs of buildings that exhibit severe cartoonish keystoning that could easily have been corrected or at least ameliorated in post.  Nobody's eyes and brain perceive vertical lines that way.

[KLaban]

On the Streets.

[degrub]

i think Russ would approve. Some interpretation left to the viewer.

[KLaban]

...Some interpretation left to the viewer.

Agreed. So far, of all the images I've posted to this thread, I believe only two would then qualify.

Perhaps any definition of 'Street' would need your observation to be included? I'd be happy enough with that.

I have to admit that most of my work wouldn't meet my own purist led definition.

[degrub]

IMO, usually, there is some sort of dynamic, a tension, a question, a mystery,  between humans either both in the scene or maybe one/something off camera

[Rob C]

That’s some friggin’ mosquito, hanging up there in the left upper corner of the arch! I hope they don’t cross over to Spain…

;-)

[KLaban]

That’s some friggin’ mosquito, hanging up there in the left upper corner of the arch! I hope they don’t cross over to Spain…

;-)

That'll be John Hurt's Alien, now residing on the streets of Morocco and in rude health.

;-)