Mirror, mirror tell me ..., a photo from Tamil Nadu, South

Photographer's Note

Around the temples, there are many shops open late night (tailors, restaurants, etc.) and multiple snack booths and other street vendors.

This is a restaurant, with mirrors on the top of the wall, ideal to see all customers and for photo.

Nothing interesting to shoot w/o having people purposely posing for you ;o) until the moment we were about to leave the restaurant and this couple came in.

Cheers, Alain -

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Darren (6823) 2006-12-19 9:33

Hi Alain. The shot is most interesting for me in that this is one of the very best b&w conversions I have seen. The bokeh looks as though it is film grain and not digital. REally nicely done. I know what you mean about it being difficult to take photos in India without people posing for you, but I think this is a little too candid. Some kind of either interaction with the camera, or a more direct indication of the action taking place would make a big difference for me. As it is, they could be doing pretty much anything; I wish I could know for sure.

naxius (16685) 2006-12-19 13:09

Trop marrant la bouille du gars dans le mirroir..Il te voit te pointer avec ton nikon et se demande bien ce que tu photographies!! combien de fois j'ai vu des gens surpris par des cadrages qui peuvent sembler tomber à côté!! rien de tel ici...
a+
Alex

scalerman (26900) 2006-12-19 16:48

Alain: it seems so many of your pictures of late tend to do with glass, or reflections, or mirrors in some way. It's an interesting theme, especially the ones about transport. keep it up. regards, c

vapours (8264) 2006-12-19 19:23

Hey Alain,

Can't say that this one works for me I'm afraid, as Darren has said there is no interaction with the camera, and I guess it's a bit frustrating that we can't see the two main peoples faces. You talk about mirrors...if we could have seen their faces in the mirror it would have been much better I feel.

Furachan (0) 2006-12-20 5:15

Psd mal cele-ci, Alain. Tres stylee comme tujours mais, en tuote sincreite, elle rate un peu la cible celle-ci, question de ne pas avoir un fetish prononce pour les grosses nuques vues de derriere. L'action cote miroir ne suffit pas a nous enchante comme peut-etre tu ;'aurais voulu...
Tu sais a quel point je suis fan de ton travail - voici ma premiere critique un peu negative, mais je pense que l'honnetete doit compter opur quelquechose.
En attendant ta prochaine avec impatience.
Tres amicalement,
Francis

yanseiler (20) 2006-12-25 8:53

Salut Alain, encore une fois bien joue avec une photo qui contient plusieurs photos, plusieurs scenes capturees en une seule prise, j'aime bien, tous les coins sont remplis, un tre bon equilibre des masses a mon avis...
A plus et joyeuses fetes
Yan