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How I made: Take a photo of my goat !

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Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza

Posted 5 months ago

CONTEXT:
Me and a friend for a holiday went village near Yazd, called Khranq.
There is a historic city dating back 4,000 years. People who still live in the city are working agriculture and animal husbandry.
My friend grandparents live in the village.
We had a plan to photograph one working day of people in this area .
For drinking water, my friend went to the grandparents house.
His grandfather is a lovely man.He read poetry for me from his memory for 1 hour!(at age 85)!!!!!!!
i toke this photo at my friends grandparents barn.
When she said me(Take a photo of my goat !)

THE PICTURE:
For this photo i used my sigma 24-70 Ex dg macro lens with some standard setting at ISO 200 on aperture 4,5.

PROCESSING:
I opened the image in camera raw and done light settings and color correction. And then I opened the image in Photoshop.
I used Nik silver EFEX for Black and White.
After this stage, determined the sharpness of the image separately for each area was using a mask.

HINTS:
Be ready at any time for photograph. May happen in a moment.
Always keep your finger on the shutter button, and always look at people from the viewfinder.

BIOGRAPHY :
My name is Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza
I was born in Iran / Tehran
6 years experience of Photography,Not a professional photographer.
"I love photography when I saw a beautiful portrait"
I love photography of the beauty, Truth And what in my mind,I hope you enjoy of things i see in the camera gate.Photography is my companion cases alone And the camera is my best friend.

Marie-Claude C.

Posted 5 months ago

Hi Hamidreza,

What a wonderful lively picture ! So expressive ! I simply love it.

It seems this old lady is talking to me, I enjoy looking at your picture.

It is a testimony of those people's hard way of life, and despite of that we can feel in your picture they are ready to welcome visitors.

You really managed to create a relationship between the old lady and the person who is watchig your photo. That's one of the main reasons why I like your picture so much.

Your context text is very intersting and I notice you have used Silver Efex, a software I don't posesss And was thinking of buying, it seems to be quite good, because your B&W conversion is excellent !

Anyway you have understood I like very much this "piece of real life"

Thanks a lot for sharing,

Kind regards,

Marie-Claude

Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza

Posted 5 months ago

Hello
I'm glad you like it.
about Silver EFEX I have to say the plugin is very useful.
thank for your comment.

Marie-Claude C.

Posted 5 months ago

Thanks for your reply Hamidreza, I think I'll get this pluging since it works with Lightroom !

Meike Hofstetter

Posted 5 months ago

Hi Hamidreza,

I just loved this photo when I saw it in the gallery and am happy to find your tutorial / background story of it. Thank you for sharing.

Meike

Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza

Posted 5 months ago

thanks dear Meike

PAUL GS

Posted 5 months ago

Great shot!!! Congrats!!!

Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza

Posted 5 months ago

Thank you PAUL

Reza Yavari

Posted 5 months ago

such a nice work!
besiar akse xubi shode aqa.faqat be shaxse tarjih midadam ke ye kam faza xalvat tar bashe.yani be nazaram ye kam hesse arameshesh bishtar mishod mitonest behtar bashe, vali xob bazam kare foqol adeE shode tabrik migam ;)

Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza

Posted 5 months ago

merc reza jan
khodam ham dost dashtam khalvat tar bashe vali karish nemishe kard akse mostanade dige.:)
mamnon az commentet!