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Marriage Turkana...

Kenya del Nord 2015

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Marriage Turkana sent on February 23, 2015 (22:32) by Bosforo65. 4 comments, 658 views.






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avatarsenior
sent on May 08, 2015 (11:25) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

The photo I like .. what I sense of this journey I like !! But warns when parts of this level for gypsy wow! You were also to the east of Lake Turkana?

avatarsenior
sent on May 11, 2015 (17:10) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

hello pier.
was a trip to a limited number, then I'll explain.
I do not know what you mean by "east of Lake Turkana," we came up to Loiyangalani, where there are the Turkana and go further east you do not meet different ethnic groups, excluding the Gabbra, mainly Somalis and therefore Islamized and much less characteristic. we also saw the El Molo, now completely westernized and who wear traditional clothes only on request the day before (sic).

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sent on May 12, 2015 (13:45) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

It does not sound bad .. but I understand that your "freedom" was limited ..

I asked you in the area because I recently saw a doc for a journey through the air northeastern Kenya, then moved to Ethiopia. There I found interessanti..che ideas deserve to be the first in-depth and then "-traveled."

avatarsenior
sent on May 14, 2015 (11:04) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I I copy & paste what I have written elsewhere about this trip (not written in the photographers, so a little 'didactic):

from the photographic point of view this trip was quite different from my previous ones. for the first time I traveled with a photographer (a German, not a professional photographer but in his youth he was an assistant of fashion photographers and advertising and still now is a photo-amateur highly evolved) and with the specific intent to photograph the best of my chances. I met him on the web and in practice I have been asking him to travel together to learn his techniques so it was right that I had to adjust me in his day. times that have proven excellent to photograph but a bit 'too slow for my taste of traveler that, although I like to take pictures, he always messor the journey in the first place and he never sacrificed on the altar of photographic activity. in practice, to take advantage of the best light, fotografavamo until 8:00 in the morning and we resumed the machine in hand only around 17:00, just before sunset. The exception to these hours we made it to Loiyangalani, on the shores of Lake Turkana, where the center of the town possessed buildings with small porches or even doors at eye level that allowed photographs in shadow with reflected light, what that in the villages is impossible because the huts have roofs (and then the photos can be made only to the external light, and in the middle of the day is tremendous) and revenues are low (do not enter erected, must bend). apart from the already mentioned Loiyangalani, we mostly camped all'interno of traditional villages, so no electricity or even shops and often cucinandoci food, and make the evening was quite hard, because (unlike other places I've seen before, as Ethiopia's south, the Amazon and the Far East) given the weather conditions and extremely hot (near Lake Turkana) ventosissime, locals were closed because they stand out in the hut was a hell, and there was not much to see / do, aside from the usual twenty children aged pre-schoolers that there was around whatever we did. I found it all a bit 'too slow, hours and hours of nothing (both in terms of photographs of other activities) and sometimes it seemed to waste the time that I could spend differently but my traveling companion (who It enjoyed a world to spend hours playing with the kids ...) nounGeneva Preview, not without reason, that in the first 3-4 days it's hard to get the "perfect shot" that look, because the locals have to get used to you and then be more relaxed (which is impossible if you arrive in a village, you're half an hour and you go) and the photographer takes time to figure out what things interesting offers place, what are the best locations, such interesting events occur and so on. often we ended up making "casting" in practice shooting the village with a local guide in search of interesting characters to be convened on time best. add to all this the fact that, in spite of tourists will see very few (apart Loiyangalani, throughout the trip we saw only two white men, a Belgian engineer who built wind plants and one who was traveling on trucks for transport of animals together with premises), has meadowscally impossible to photograph someone for free, sometimes children but not always, so we should choose quietly the most interesting subjects and summon them in the location identified, because although photographers only an animal or a hut jumps always someone out there who feels the same to extort two brisk. then no daughters from them but there is always the hassle of having to enter into controversy that eventually discouraged from doing even normal pictures. morality, I never made so few photographs in my life as I was traveling this time to photograph ...

from a technical point of view I tried to change my approach. first portraits I made them almost exclusively with zoom 70/200 mm f / 4.0, adhering to what they say the manuals of photography (the optical 85mm is perfect for portraits because it is from about queIt is focal that the face is no longer deformed by the lens). I also did not seem to stay on the subject was a fine, instead the German made me realize that it's the opposite, and if you're close to the subject (shooting with the other two lenses in my possession, the 17/55 mm f / 2.8 and 50 mm f / 1.4, to put the face to the entire shot I had to be less than a meter) is related with the camera in a different way, it seems a bullshit but the looks are much more direct and attractive. Furthermore, by so close, it is able to interact better, you can try asking a smile or pose an alternative, which by 5 meters and without knowing the local language becomes more complicated. another thing that I tried to do, always following the advice of Kraut, has been to use apertures thrusts: the 17/55 I used toits maximum and the 50ino to what should be its "sweet spot", ie around f / 2.0. work with these openings will shorten a lot the depth of field, so if a person you focus the eyes, the tip of the nose is already completely out of focus if one is good the result eyes are in sharp focus (and magnetic) and It rest intentionally blurred (which helps to bring down the eye of the beholder on the eyes), on the other hand is quite easy, especially for me who were the first time I tried to shoot that way, wrong focus, and then the 10 / 15 photos that I made to each subject were also a way to try to get at least one shot in focus. In fact, a couple of subjects, despite a dozen shots, I do not have even one with perfect focus and hence my Nikon D90 with just 9 points of focus hassome 'fall apart.


there have been several episodes, some adventurous (we were locked in the car for an hour to defend ourselves from twenty local enraged me was my passport away from a village chief, I touched the brawl with a man possessed ...) more exciting (a wedding Turkana and Samburu one, this creepy, involved in the dances together with local young people in the total darkness of the night in the bush), but overall it was a journey that, for the slowness described above, has taken away much of fun and hardly will write.


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