Chinese Soldier

in a Shanghai night rain

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    photobysam1, Mirko Ansaloni, Chris Stan Vee, onkel_wart (thomas lieser), and 52 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Manon laurent Photographie (17 months ago | reply)

    hoooo ! y fait peur le soldat XD

  3. StephenSpencePictures @ The Tide Gallery (17 months ago | reply)

    if looks could kill ! lol

  4. Coinneach_h (17 months ago | reply)

    striking image, nice

  5. Mirko Ansaloni (17 months ago | reply)

    Splendida!

  6. Jonathan Kos-Read (17 months ago | reply)

    What looks unconventional about it? I'm not whinging just curious. It's a 16:9 crop arranged so two of the diagonals cross at his eye.

    I see what you mean about the bottom left and right. The Sigma has bad corner fall off wide open. You can't see it on the top because of the crop.

  7. onkel_wart (thomas lieser) (17 months ago | reply)

    looks like there is an endless number of them....

  8. -nyctreeman- (17 months ago | reply)

    I like it

    saved3

  9. itspiv (17 months ago | reply)

    you got balls

    sweet or sour

    saved

  10. ben oït (17 months ago | reply)

    incredible timing.

  11. Ma®tiniLux (17 months ago | reply)

    No question

    save

  12. telele (17 months ago | reply)

    fine shot (there's sthg odd about the framing though)

    save

  13. cyberchrome (17 months ago | reply)

    extraordinary

    saved

  14. benicapo (17 months ago | reply)

    needs a deleted

  15. Orbitgal (17 months ago | reply)

    fine
    saved

  16. xdre¡) [deleted] (17 months ago | reply)

    some people trained to kill others.
    deleted

  17. Pacdog (17 months ago | reply)

    nice look..

    saved

  18. J-Bones (17 months ago | reply)

    My pleasure...

    save

  19. Lawrie M (17 months ago | reply)

    Congratulations, Jonathan!

    Feel free to move this over to The DMU Folio.

    Be sure to add it to the DM Gallery as well and choose one photo to remove.

  20. addie cass (17 months ago | reply)

    COOL.

  21. G K Weir (17 months ago | reply)

    You achieved a very interesting effect with the one well lit face looking back at the camera from a sea of camouflage. As a previous commenter said "if looks could kill."

    I think it is a safe assumption that this is a candid shot so you had to catch it while it was available and had little choice about the foreground which is unfortunate. The not so well lit face in the lower left and the dark, and very noisy, hat lower right detract from the overall effect. The right side of the image to about 2/3rds of the way up seems too dark to me.

    Overall the image seems a little soft to me, perhaps that was your intent.

    This is an interesting shot but, in my opinion, not a very good one.

  22. foto3116 (17 months ago | reply)

    I'm of two minds about this one. At first it's confusing, no doubt because of the sea of camouflage. As in the above comment, the lower part is much darker than the main and upper which makes the shot a bit choppy. One thing I do like is how the shot emphasises the uniformity of this group. The soldier looking back is the only defined object here. If it was indeed a candid, though, you did what you could with it.

  23. Hammonton Photography (17 months ago | reply)

    I am just loving this photograph! What a capture! The look on the soldiers face makes me gasp! He looks pretty serious! I love the focus on him but how you can see all of the other soldiers before him.. so many of them as well. Great lighting and colors.. brilliant image.. something to be proud of- bravo!
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  24. chmeermann (17 months ago | reply)

    This is an amazingly impressive photograph. The camouflage uniforms make it quiet hard to separate the soldiers from one another. This lets the soldier who is turning around stand out even more. And his gaze is really intensely frightening. How did you fight the urge to turn and run?
    Nothing to improve here. Practically perfect in every way.

  25. sshingler (17 months ago | reply)

    Really interesting, reading all the comments and contrasting reactions to this shot. I can't possibly see how that is a "come hither" look - he's definitely trying to be menacing. I think it is *almost* a really good shot - the large amount of black space on the bottom right detracts hugely from the composition - for me. I actually wonder about cropping in much more tightly - have suggested a crop. :)

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  30. sirimiri (16 months ago | reply)

    I'll put it succinctly: I wish this was a shot I'd taken.

  31. Joshua Drew Vaughn (16 months ago | reply)

    He looks pissed.

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