Lois Alexander-Mandel
January 2018 - Spare CUPs Anyone?
About the Image(s)
While visiting Havana, Cuba, our tour took us to the obligatory cigar and rum store. Having no interest in buying either, I hung around outside hoping to find some interesting people to photograph. As there was a tour bus parked at the curb, that wasn’t hard, as there were many street vendors and panhandlers. I was struck by her wrinkles and her beautiful white hair which seemed almost translucent in the light. Post processing was done in One1 RAW with some tweaking in Lightroom. I wish you all a happy, healthy and creative 2018.
Fuji XT-1
1/125 at f5.3
ISO 320
This round’s discussion is now closed!
4 comments posted
Love her. Almost looks like my grandma, but she passed many years ago. The look of age is not only in her wrinkles but in her eyes. I think I would brighten the face some and a little in the eyes. She is beautiful. Great catch Posted: 01/07/2018 12:26:18
Why do I feel like I have done something wrong. I think I am in trouble when we get home.
So the image does what it is meant to do, provoke a reaction and that face does from being your grandmother to the feeling your in trouble. I would have like a touch more length in the image but that's just my taste. Invoking image well done. Posted: 01/21/2018 08:53:34
So the image does what it is meant to do, provoke a reaction and that face does from being your grandmother to the feeling your in trouble. I would have like a touch more length in the image but that's just my taste. Invoking image well done. Posted: 01/21/2018 08:53:34
A great capture. There is a such a contrast between her old, worn face and her shirt with cartoon bunny characters on it. I am distracted by the 4 in the corner, but not the two dark areas above it. A thin white pixel border would help to define the edge. Nice! Posted: 01/22/2018 20:39:58
That is an expression which has a story behind. Those wrinkles and twitch on the lips say a lot. The background has some issues in particular that number 4. A 2 pixel stroke around would define the edge. Well done. Posted: 01/25/2018 11:46:47