Lori Azevedo
About the Image(s)
This photo was taken in 2019 in Lisbon Portugal. I keep going back to work on editing this image. It's still not where I want it to be yet. I'm working on filters to age the photo. I did remove 3 other men who were in the image.
I had been on a photo walk with a profession photographer. We were shooting trolley cars all morning. We began following this woman as she turned the corner and started her walk through the alleyways in Lisbon. Most of the streets are very narrow and twist and turn randomly. She did not seem to be bothered by us. The old-world beauty of Lisbon still haunts me. I can't wait to return.
This photo was taken with my old Nikon D610 camera. Why my ISO was set at 160 I don't know. the F-stop was at 5 and the exposure was 1/100.
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9 comments posted
I will see what I can do with the plastic sheathing hanging from the wall. This photo is one of those that will keep me working.   Posted: 10/15/2024 17:31:16
Thank you for your comments. I'm glad that the blue dress was able to hold your eye.
  Posted: 10/15/2024 17:32:25
For some reason the manipulated photo won't load. No loss!   Posted: 10/15/2024 17:38:12
I love old alleyways and narrow streets in old cities, so your shot caught my eye right away. I think the woman in her blue dress is a great contrast with the stone...both the walls and the roadway. As for how to edit, I like your thought about aging the photo, but I don't interpret that to mean you have to age every single thing in it...like the blue dress, which actually helps the photo for me because it contrasts with the stonework. I don't see any artifacts from where the 3 men were, so getting rid of them was probably a good thing because the fact that she is alone adds to it for me. It's interesting, though, that Alec took the approach that it would be good to recover detail from shadows in the depths of the alley, which makes the whole shot brighter. While it is strictly a personal preference, my own approach would be to make the depths of the alley DARKER, more mysterious. See the feedback image...I did a radial gradient on the alley to darken and enrich (white balance and saturation) the depth, and for her dress (separate mask) I pulled down highlights a bit on her dress. But this is a really intriguing shot no matter how you edit it...the play of light and shadow and the stones in these old streets is captivating.   Posted: 10/16/2024 00:52:54