All colors in Guatemala are super-saturated. That's why most of my
Guatemala photos are color and most Honduras photos are B&W. The Mayan
women grow their own cotton, dye the thread, and weave the material on a
back-strap loom. They take pride in using brilliant colors. Every village
has it's own color scheme and you can tell by the colors a woman wears
which village she is from. It takes about three months to weave and
embroider a huipil (blouse). The women usually only have one huipil that
they wear right side out for church and meetings and wrong side out to work
around the house.
Bob does have an excellent lens - the Noctilux - my favorite ;-)
Tina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've found a way to see Tina's images at a larger size than before;
> especially
> thinking of the 55 yo widow from Guatemala, and the three ladies beside a
> wall with some sky and forest OOF on the right. Somebody suggested the
> latter was too colour-saturated.
>
> I suspect Tina has to rely a lot on her memory to evaluate that. If, (a
> big "if" )
> these women use highly saturated colours in their dyes, or the fabric
> makers
> do, in excellent light the colours could well be as shown
>
> Did you notice how bright the colours were in Robert Adler's baseball
> photos. Amazing.
>
> Brian Swale.
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