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Mexican Lady | Tuesday Mar 17, 2009

I have been taking lots of photos, but not many good ones. As I stated, the landscapes are not that inspiring and I'm sure there are other things I should be shooting. This was taken at Chichen-Itza. I paid her 10 pesos which is 8 pesos more than if I had bought the white hanky she was selling.

Tags: mexico portrait

Galleries: Portraits

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Aperture: F2.8
Exposure Time: 1/90 sec
Focal Length: 70.0 mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0.5
Shooting Mode: Aperture priority
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment

Comments:

You know, I wonder what she was thinking right at that moment. There is a look in her eyes that I can't quite figure. It is either "What the ...is this guy doing?" or maybe something quite sad. I can't decide. Excellent capture.

Posted by Nigel Hollingworth on March 18, 2009 at 01:41 AM EDT #

Great capture and wonderful portrait. And I totally agree with Nigel. She really has this look in her eyes.
The B&W works marvelously here.

Posted by Sven on March 18, 2009 at 06:07 AM EDT #

Very powerful portrait. I too wonder what she was thinking. She probably has a lot of interesting stories.

Posted by Laurie on March 18, 2009 at 07:23 AM EDT #

great portrait!

Posted by Olivier Jules on March 18, 2009 at 04:37 PM EDT #

How impressive she is!!!
Nice work! :-)

Posted by tetsu on March 19, 2009 at 01:01 PM EDT #

I think you might have overdone the skin softening to be honest, Richard! ;)

Hell of a portrait.

Posted by Mark Power on March 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM EDT #

must be michelin-man's grandma ;)

Posted by kaarel mikkin on April 19, 2009 at 08:28 AM EDT #

nice prtrait. Would love to know the story behind it

Posted by Jason St. Peter on April 19, 2009 at 09:02 PM EDT #