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Understanding Comes Slowly
Understanding Comes Slowly
shutterphunk


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Challenge: Color Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Pentax *ist D
Lens: Pentax FA 28-70mm f/4.0 AL AF
Location: Home, Fukuroi, Japan
Date: Sep 11, 2005
Aperture: f6.7
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Sep 11, 2005

 Thanks to my partner, Jeff, for drawing all the shuji and for just being so patient with my many attempts at taking this picture.
He's worked hard at mastering Japanese for many years now, so that's what I wanted to show in this picture.

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 09/21/2005 01:34:34 PM
**Critique Club**

shutterpunk
Pentax *ist D

This is a well composed photograph, with the calligrapher framed by his work.
As this is advanced editing, improvements to this photo would have been to clone or crop out the sunlight in the left side and using something to reflect that light to the calligrapher or by working with your brightness and contrast to bring him out and make him the focus of the picture. Those are the only two areas I can see that need improvement on.

Congratulations on a very nice photo :)
 09/19/2005 10:11:13 PM
Yeah! Gotta love white guys writing shufa. I haven't practiced in a long while either. This guy is GOOD. Nice table too.

I guess he knows his hand position is off for Chinese style writing. I don't know what the Japanese influence has been on it though. Proof is in the pudding though.

I would have liked it even better if he was writing characters that had more direct meaning to your title too.

Edit: looks like there is no support for chinese characters in posts...

Message edited by author 2005-09-19 22:14:04.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/18/2005 11:24:53 PM
interesting photo
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 09/17/2005 07:06:05 PM
Good feeling ;-) That's better than I can do (but then I don't practice).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/17/2005 10:58:33 AM
Very nice.
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 09/16/2005 05:47:22 PM
wish this were brighter, you'd have to blow out the light part in the lower left to do it, but I think it would be worth it - love the story it tells
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/16/2005 05:37:07 PM
I love the way you chose to capture this photo. Creative and artistic. Awesome.
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 09/15/2005 09:33:29 PM
Although I feel like a voyeur, I like the portrait and your photo gives me the feeling of an artist at work. Nice job.
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 09/14/2005 01:17:12 AM
Very appealing photo., possibly because it is so thoughtful or the guy is goodlooking. I think I would have liked it better without the curtains, they aren't adding anything of value and neither is the light on the left. Appears slightly underexposed on my monitor.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 09:38:42 PM
cool but a little dark and muddy looking
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 12:44:02 PM
dark
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 05:23:35 AM
Interesting composition with nice contrasting shapes. I would have scored it higher if it were brighter.
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 09/13/2005 04:29:37 AM
lovely picture, very serene. if the characters on the wall are his (yours?) then his calligraphy is impressive. there are a few things that could have helped this in the post processing:

1. cloning out the bright spot in lower left
2. increasing the contrast on the image
3. a bit of sharpening

- but this remains a very good photograph in any case. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 08:12:37 PM
I like the curtains, nice effect.
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 09/12/2005 07:20:35 PM
I like the composition and imagery. I think you need a great job framing the image with the drapery...really cool look- feels like I'm peeping in on a man lost in deep thought.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 03:35:11 PM
I like the material that diffuses the background making the subject stand out.
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 09/12/2005 09:40:41 AM
Very cool shot!
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