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Vanuatu Signs and Souls

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Vanuatu Signs and Souls

Postby pippin88 on Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:06 pm

Few more from Vanuatu:

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The fellow is Ernest, who has been running a WWII museum in a small village for over 20 years. Mainly consists of collecting Coke bottles. Claims to have the largest collection of different locations / names on the bottles in the pacific. A great character.

I think perhaps a closer crop on Ernest (currently not cropped at all)

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Postby stetner on Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:06 am

I think seeing his museum stuff around him adds something to his character.

I think I would try to straighten him up though.

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Postby gstark on Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:34 am

Nick,

The current crop places him into a context, and I'm not sure that tightening this up would improve on that.

As Doug suggests, perhaps giving the image a slight nudge to straighten it up - look at the shelf in the background as a guide.
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Postby pippin88 on Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:51 pm

Thanks for the feedback, will straighten it up sometime.

Unfortunately I didn't take my SB-800 which I regretted, because a few photos of people could have done with nice fill flash (bright skys).
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