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from Eamonn Aiken (eamonn@emulsionz.com)
Thanks Josh. I more or less copied the HTML layout from the "how to" section, substituting the proper address and dimensions for my image; where did I go wrong?

Struan, I agree on the knee and wish the hands had fallen in a more photogenic manner. I also wish I could say I had reason for the bottom half of the frame being slightly jumbled (I didn't find it quite as confused as you did) but it's more the result of a first time traveler (and fairly inexperienced photographer) at work- it was my first day in Nepal and I remember concentrating so much on his face that I got a touch lazy with the frame edges. He and I never spoke verbally, just with gestures, and I never gave him any direction; I was just there to record. For me the knee isn't a major distraction and the hands are something of an "if only" consideration and I think a bit of burning in of the knee will make it less of an obstacle when I finish this image for use in the little written project I'm putting together for university credit. I do feel that despite being far from an ideal portrait, it does succeed as a "street portrait" in showing what I saw, especially in that I am viewing it in the context of an illustration to a written text. Thanks again Josh and Struan, and all else who comment.

(posted 8311 days ago)

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