Mexican Dancers

[rajjayaraj]

Street photography

Mexican Dancers by Raj Jayaraj Photography, on Flickr

Raj

[wayne2418]

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Love the way the left hand side dancer is looking and thinking "why is she in colour"?... Nice one Raj.

[Birdy]

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Nicely done!

[tesarver]

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Love the color popping you have done Raj

Tom

[Nathaniel]

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The colour popping is quite nice raj but I would have like all the girls to be in their vibrant colours. MHO!

[Tigger]

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The colour popping is quite nice raj but I would have like all the girls to be in their vibrant colours. MHO!

I'm with Nat on this Raj, but I'm also not a great fan of selective colour - nice photo though, just not the PP for me

[Stan]

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I would keep it all in colour too

Stan

[EOS_User]

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The dancer on the right is heavily OOF, so I can see why you're concentrating on the central dancer... how about cropping off the two dancers on the right, I think that would yield a better image with better balance with the popped focus being on the third rather than the centre ????? Just a thought...

Cheers;

Lee

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks for all the comments, i want to try a cinematic effect with the viewer eyes more on the heroin than the rest hence this effect, I used f2.8 and shot with 70-200mm lens and hence so much of OOF.

[Bill53]

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Nice work Raj.

Bill.

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks Bill

[AlexR!]

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Raj, I can see what you were trying to do, and you've executed it excellently; in fact you've done a really great job in selecting your main subject.
A couple of other options if I may:
There's a bit of wasted space on the right, how about cropping to the lady at the back's left elbow? Yes you'll lose some of the foreground billowing skirt, but this would mirror the left hand side and take the main subject slightly off-centre looking in which may be stronger. My other thought is to not do a full mono on the colour pop, perhaps just desaturate the other dancers a little to make the central one stand out, but you still get the flavour of all five colours, then desaturate the actual background a little more rather than full on mono.

[Muscat]

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Nice image Raj, I agree with Alex's suggested crop and desaturated image rather than the colour pop which for me doesn't work. I would also consider using an off centre vignette to further enhance your main subject.

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks Alex and Muscat for you suggestion, will have a go.

[ST-EOS]

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Well captured Raj, the previous replies have given some good suggestions on further processing.