Soldiers – Light Stalking

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- August 9, 2021 at 12:43 pm #482490
  Lenny Wollitz
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  This was really cropped a lot, noisy, shot from the hip and not very good focus. But I kinda like the humanity. I did a lot of post stuff to it including the new “enhance” thing in lighroom which uses AI to multiply the pixels… not real impressed with that. I’m interested in the humanity and compo of the shot more that the technical. Not sure if I will post it anywhere before blurring the kids face a bit but I don’t especially want to do that. Does this push any buttons for you?
- August 9, 2021 at 1:44 pm #482492
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  I think it definitely pushes buttons Lenny. Different folks, different strokes as they say.
  
  ST…not so sure you need that much illumination difference between the soldier and the kid.
- August 9, 2021 at 3:16 pm #482494
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  Amazing photo, Lenny. Technical aspects don’t matter. Gesture/story prevails everything.
- August 9, 2021 at 3:28 pm #482499
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  Yes, it pushes buttons Lenny! It works well as is, the tech aspects don’t matter.
- August 9, 2021 at 5:12 pm #482508
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  This is what photography is about. Not sure you will post it anywhere? I would post it everywhere.
- August 10, 2021 at 11:36 am #482525
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  Great photo Lenny. I think you can slightly brighten the soldier 🙂
- August 10, 2021 at 11:41 am #482530
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  Thanks to all of you for the nice comments!
  
  Rob and Dahila, the guy up top… the army guys don’t like having their photos taken much less published so I’m careful. In fact way before covid (I shot this in 2016) most of them wore masks when working so the cartel thugs wouldn’t wouldn’t know who they are and retaliate. This was a special occasion, independence day parade so they were unmasked. Plus I like the shadowy ominous look of him..
  
  Erik, thanks for the encouragement and I’m going to post it.
- August 11, 2021 at 7:35 pm #482586
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  I bet this shot would start an utter sh*t storm if we posted it on the Facebook page.
- August 13, 2021 at 5:41 pm #482670
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  Hi Rob, I find that many people that live in a cocoon like protected middle/upper class live style find photos like this to be disturbing. Especially ones that have not traveled in 3rd world countries. Most of my family. Unfortunately, it does not encourage them to come visit me here in Mexico!
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