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Mitch Alland
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Ian, although we've now corresponded on your posting by Personal Mail, I thought I should also respond here so other people can follow the conversation. First, thank you for your reaction, which I value highly having seen your own fantastic pictures.Mitch, your edit as of 730pm Friday NYC-time looks fantastic.
Great additions. A fully-realized and deep picture of your experience, and simultaneously, of life for your subjects in Bangkok.
I'm not convinced this is the final sequencing, but that's ... besides the point.
Also, there are a small handful where the post-processing shows — a few faces where dodging reaches a cloudy place that could be corrected with a quick blast of contrast to bring back the blacks. You'll be happier getting those few to match the standard you've set in the rest of the images.
But that's nitpicking, too. This is a strong, personal collection of work that deserves an audience.
I hope this inspiring edit inspires you to kind of run around the bases one more time — shoot a bunch more, especially if you want nothing more than to be done, and especially especially if think you are.
There's a fine book here already; what a freeing place from which to dig out a handful more pictures.
Kudos!
I see what you mean about the monk picture: the funny thing is that every time I saw this photograph I had a subliminal feeling that it was too evenly gray — I now have increased the contrast and, having a bit of almost highlight on his forehead and a bit of almost black on his cheek, as well as a some more contrast in the background as well, improves it. Interesting, how a basically small change in contrast can make a big improvement, no different from the darkroom. Thanks for the tip: I'll have to go through the rest of the pictures from this point of view.
On adding more pictures, I'm still in the mood to take some more pictures for some of the themes of the book; and therefe am likely to continue doing so. After adding some more I may end up deleting a few of the current ones.
—Mitch/Huanhin
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