Re: Our Lady of Guadaloupe

Tina:
In many of the images, especially those of the pregnant girl, I'd have used at least a 135mm, more likely a 180mm or 200mm lens to eliminate extraneous, out-of-focus stuff yet still give the sense of others around your subject.

Especially http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/54162284 needs this treatment - in fact, there are probably two pictures there, one of the young woman with her enigmatic expression, another of the black family behind them. The out-of-focus family between them disturbs the composition.

In others, like http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/54162290, I'd have made the kneeling people in the foreground sharp, and let the background sharpness fall where it may. I've always found out-of-focus distant things with sharp foreground subjects be less disturbing than blurry foreground and sharp intermediate or background. I'd have also taken this image from slightly forward instead of slightly behind most of your subjects. I want to see their eyes and faces - to know what they think about what they're doing.

With http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/54162268, I'd have waited until I could get both the young father and his son looking my way. If they didn't, I'd have waited for someone else to show me their faces.

I like http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/54162311 very much - the young woman's face as the young boy kisses her really makes the shot. And it's tight enough to get me to pay attention to them.

And I like most of the images on pages two and three much better. The farolito-lined walkway to the church might have been more effective with someone walking down it towards you.



At 03:32 PM 12/30/2005, you wrote: 
PAW -

I'm so far behind I don't know if I can all this a PAW! Maybe AFPEOIAW - A Few Pictures Every Once In A While.
There are 32 here - part of the Families of Abraham project that I'm working on. Our Lady of Guadaloupe is a huge Latin-American Catholic Church in Charlotte that has 6 or 7 masses a day - all standing room only - and all in Spanish. The focus family in this case is the one with the pretty young pregnant girl.

Comments and criticisms are welcome, as always.

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/our_lady_of_guadaloupe&page=1

Tina

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