I was looking at this photo as a possible magazine submission the other day and thought – I should just share it. I love the contrast between traditional and modern.
Contrasts: A dani man wears traditional body paint and decorations along with his sunglasses at the Baliem Festival. Held every August in the Papuan highlands, the festival is a celebration of dani culture involving dances, competitions, and mock battles.
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Strangely great… breaks a lot of rules composition is off, but still sits nicely with me. I’m off to Mongolia next year and am looking around for some brilliant travel photographs to inspire. This is definatly one of them, nice find!
great one and thanks for sharing it with us.
I could still remember that girl’s face with a “deep look” in a Discovery Magazine, which was later visited by the photographer many years later in Afghanistan. So, I advise you to submit this picture of yours to a magazine. Who knows, the picture will become part of our history.
Like the reflection in the sunglasses! Newly discovered your site…I’ll be back.
Hey,
I really enjoyed your photo. The things I really liked was your framing, the colors and other photographic elements. Usually putting yourself in the photo (via the guys sun glasses) is a mistake in photography, but I think it works with this photo. Overall great job!
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It’s sad that the “modern” always seems to seep in somehow – and it takes away from the authenticity of the traditional. This is such a great commentary shot…
I love this photo. It showed both the old and modern world in one
It was almost perfect until I saw you on the lens of the sunglasses taking a photo. Funny but it still looks great! I’ll look forward for more fantastic photos.
I like this photo. I like the way that the photographer is captured in the lens of the shades. To get really good portrait photos I would use the Canon 550D with the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens stopped right down to 1.8. Doing this will get you some really nice photos with the background thrown out of focus.
Nice picture, I like the reflection of you shooting this picture
Love the irony here as well. What did you shoot this with? Great pic nonetheless!
The mud on the face makes it.
thanks to sharing this photo……
I also learnt the basic photography rules from Mr. Kishore Mamillapalli who is one of the leading wildlife photographers from South Africa. He used to say that “Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder”. If you like what you see on your camera screen, or through the viewfinder, you will like the photograph.
There are some basic photography rules for composition. Once you know these rules, you can use them, ignore them, or break them. Follow your gut, and you will end up with spectacular, sometimes breathtaking results. Kishore is really an astonishing wild life photographer and has a great eye for details..
Cool photo and I love the fact you can see the photographer looking straight down the lens reflected in the sunglasses