GraemeNicol
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Photographing in one of the villages nearby the historical site we had been shooting. The light was good, so it's hard not to lift the camera, but when you're photographing over a cultural barrier, and in the case of an elderly woman in a remote impoverished peasant farming village, across a gulf in economics too, you have to be careful in how you represent people you photograph. Such a photo should crafted to give the subject dignity, but with this woman it was hard to find what I was looking for. She was ok with being photographed, but very passive to it all. Aside from a couple of compositional flaws (the distracting wheel beside her head), that sense of passivity and even pity, rather than dignity, is what would prevent me from using this image in any future edit. Your thoughts ?
Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, Fuji GA645zi
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Photographing in one of the villages nearby the historical site we had been shooting. The light was good, so it's hard not to lift the camera, but when you're photographing over a cultural barrier, and in the case of an elderly woman in a remote impoverished peasant farming village, across a gulf in economics too, you have to be careful in how you represent people you photograph. Such a photo should crafted to give the subject dignity, but with this woman it was hard to find what I was looking for. She was ok with being photographed, but very passive to it all. Aside from a couple of compositional flaws (the distracting wheel beside her head), that sense of passivity and even pity, rather than dignity, is what would prevent me from using this image in any future edit. Your thoughts ?
Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, Fuji GA645zi