Morrie Carter
November 2025 - Sidewalk of Ho Chi Minh
About the Image(s)
This is a photo taken in 2024 during the early morning in Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon. I was returning from an early morning visit to a park and saw this man walking on the street with the light from his back. It screamed to me that it was a black and white photo. ISO was 500, 55mm on a zoom lens, f 5.6 and 1/160 second
2 comments posted
Morrie,
Hats off to you for trying to do street photogra[phy, probably on the fly. I really like the solitary person with a slight reflection on the wet cobblestones behind him/her. This suggests loneliness. But my eye starts wandering on the names of all of the shops in the background. You might have blurred the background with a wider aperture or in LRC, blur the background by using a brush to reduce the clarity and texture. Well seen scene!! Posted: 11/14/2025 22:48:07
Hats off to you for trying to do street photogra[phy, probably on the fly. I really like the solitary person with a slight reflection on the wet cobblestones behind him/her. This suggests loneliness. But my eye starts wandering on the names of all of the shops in the background. You might have blurred the background with a wider aperture or in LRC, blur the background by using a brush to reduce the clarity and texture. Well seen scene!! Posted: 11/14/2025 22:48:07
Hey Morrie
What a capture - there's so much going on here, but you've boiled the image down to this one subject so nicely, great eye for seeing it and nicely executed! My eye jumps right to the person with bag of goods, and their awesome reflection, and then starts exploring.
I understand David's point about blurring the background, but to offer another perspective, I think that's part of what makes this image so effective. We're getting to see this wonderful little snapshot in time of this person's life, and part of that is existing in all that busyness and bustle.
The crop you've chosen works well too, with images this busy, it can be hard to decide where to draw your edges, but this "feels" just right.
Thanks for sharing
Josh Posted: 11/16/2025 14:31:54
What a capture - there's so much going on here, but you've boiled the image down to this one subject so nicely, great eye for seeing it and nicely executed! My eye jumps right to the person with bag of goods, and their awesome reflection, and then starts exploring.
I understand David's point about blurring the background, but to offer another perspective, I think that's part of what makes this image so effective. We're getting to see this wonderful little snapshot in time of this person's life, and part of that is existing in all that busyness and bustle.
The crop you've chosen works well too, with images this busy, it can be hard to decide where to draw your edges, but this "feels" just right.
Thanks for sharing
Josh Posted: 11/16/2025 14:31:54