Novice at vat Chom Si

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• inisheer (317)
• [2004-02-19 14:51]
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Bienvenue sur TE Eric. Et félicitations pour cette image soignée. Belle composition, exposition irréprochable, bon usage de la profondeur de champ... On en veut encore!

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• eelliott305 (776)
• [2004-02-19 14:54]

A beautiful portrait, Eric. The monk`s pose is very attractive and the light on his gold coloured robe is wonderful. Maybe I would crop a little bit from the bottom.

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• scalerman (21898)
• [2004-02-19 15:13]

Another wonderful shot. I would only have cropped tighter.

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• AdrianW (2205)
• [2004-02-19 20:01]
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Nice shot! I like the range of colours here, and the high contrasts. The young monk appears serene yet knowing, and the depth of field is spot on - however I find the sunlight in bokeh rather distracting - I'd consider trying something like contrast masking to bring out more detail. I've posted you a Workshop which I hope you'll find interesting! Very well composed - good work :-D

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• Kenny10pin (19253)
• [2004-02-19 22:35]

Lovely subject here.

I like the positioning of the shot and the clarity of the picture, excellent.

I hope he is not shaving his eyebrows too

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• manny (21378)
• [2004-02-20 11:54]

Wonderful combination of colors. Your DOF allows us to focus on the monk yet the blurred background creates an "enlightening" mood. Colors are simply beautiful.

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• maciekda (19436)
• [2004-02-23 21:51]

this one is very nice too, great pose and expression again, nice blue and orange colors, a bit dark though, but I don't mind it much.. nice!
you took a lot of nice pictures in Laos, I really should go there!

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• touristdidi (8495)
• [2004-03-01 11:35]

Was he bored? I like his sly smile! Nice colors!

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• smael (2874)
• [2004-03-02 2:44]

A well taken photograph Eric. By including the front you also create RGB (in this case Orang-Green-Blue)... :)
I also liked the "portrait" style by AdrianW, but the original leaves more thoughts. I can see a small history of buddhism by the sark face of the novice (short time practicing the "good path", and the bright background symbolising where he's supposed to struggle towards... In such a story it might have worked even better with the subject not posing like a portrait.

It works!

Terje