Watching the Tourists While Baby Sleeps

[The_Traveler]

 

[The_Traveler]

Those who insist that getting it right in the camera is always possible should try shooting in this situation - 1 PM in the tropics with the sun overhead, brilliant white background and deeply shaded background.

 

[sashbar]

A shooting position lower to the left and two steps closer to the sleeping boy would have helped this shot enormously.
With this composition I would not have straighten it to the column (rotate it anti-clockwise a bit).
I love the temple reflection though. This is a very nice touch.
Even though you ate trading it for a lot of empty space on the forefront that creates some unwanted distance from the subjects. Choices, choises..
But technically yes, agree, a tough shot to take.

 

[The_Traveler]

A shooting position lower to the left and two steps closer to the sleeping boy would have helped this shot enormously.
With this composition I would not have straighten it to the column (rotate it anti-clockwise a bit).
I love the temple reflection though. This is a very nice touch.
Even though you ate trading it for a lot of empty space on the forefront that creates some unwanted distance from the subjects. Choices, choises..
But technically yes, agree, a tough shot to take.

I think you will have to accept that the shot I get and show is the best shot I can see and get to at the instant.
Saying 'lower to the left and two steps closer' is critiquing a shot that doesn't exist.

 

[sashbar]

A shooting position lower to the left and two steps closer to the sleeping boy would have helped this shot enormously.
With this composition I would not have straighten it to the column (rotate it anti-clockwise a bit).
I love the temple reflection though. This is a very nice touch.
Even though you ate trading it for a lot of empty space on the forefront that creates some unwanted distance from the subjects. Choices, choises..
But technically yes, agree, a tough shot to take.

I think you will have to accept that the shot I get and show is the best shot I can see and get to at the instant.
Saying 'lower to the left and two steps closer' is critiquing a shot that doesn't exist.

OK, I will rephrase it to critique the shot that exists: the shooting position is a bit too high, two steps away and too much to the right to my taste.

 

[Granddad]

Left and closer would have lost the reflection which seems (to me) to be an integral feature of the shot. I can only imagine the way this looked before going into post processing.
I'd criticise the leveling but there are so many options I'm not sure which I'd have chosen myself...

That lens on the tourist's camera looks like it would support the foreground family for 10 years in comparative luxury.
Given the amount of time I spent looking at this I'd call it a good one; it certainly pulled me in and made me think, both on the subject of composition and on life.

 

[DarkShadow]

I like it as it is and keeps me interested.

 

[slackercruster]

I'm glad I don't have to carry around all that heavy gear like the guy in the background has.