Miss Goa 2009 ! Portrait of a colorful girl at Bonderam in August 2009.
No not really !
On a dull and lifeless day when the rains ruined the Diwar Bonderam of 2009, there was very little to bring any cheer to the proceedings. Bad light and rain and shooting with one hand holding an umbrella to protect the camera is a nightmarish scenario, and, it certainly was.
The only way out of such bad bluesy situation is to do close ups and some were done.
The organisers, at least some of them, were kinda "frog in the well" variety. They hustled the proceedings ham handedly.
Some cheer then from this Goan girl who was a part of a troupe of similarly dressed girls and boys no doubt doing a dance routine of the Latin variety. (I am afraid I know not, the name of this delightful girl who is/was a tad gawky but has some excellent bone geometry )
The first rush of the image done from a RAW file on Pro Photo color setting when converted to a jpeg image and viewed on a standard viewer made the colors and intensity pale and lifeless just like the Goan weather of August 2009. I had to redo this image from scratch in Adobe 1998 color and get back the colors.
I will post some other crops and closeups of the prophoto color setting suitably processed further to get back the colors.
The girl is on purpose portrayed in a smoking sultry dark but the other images will be not so. ( dark , I mean)
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Miss Goa 2009 ! Portrait of a colorful girl at Bonderam in August 2009.
No not really !
On a dull and lifeless day when the rains ruined the Diwar Bonderam of 2009, there was very little to bring any cheer to the proceedings. Bad light and rain and shooting with one hand holding an umbrella to protect the camera is a nightmarish scenario, and, it certainly was.
The only way out of such bad bluesy situation is to do close ups and some were done.
The organisers, at least some of them, were kinda "frog in the well" variety. They hustled the proceedings ham handedly.
Some cheer then from this Goan girl who was a part of a troupe of similarly dressed girls and boys no doubt doing a dance routine of the Latin variety. (I am afraid I know not, the name of this delightful girl who is/was a tad gawky but has some excellent bone geometry )
The first rush of the image done from a RAW file on Pro Photo color setting when converted to a jpeg image and viewed on a standard viewer made the colors and intensity pale and lifeless just like the Goan weather of August 2009. I had to redo this image from scratch in Adobe 1998 color and get back the colors.
I will post some other crops and closeups of the prophoto color setting suitably processed further to get back the colors.
The girl is on purpose portrayed in a smoking sultry dark but the other images will be not so. ( dark , I mean)
DSC_1267 take 2