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Double portrait

            Vangaindrano (Madagascar) - Solution de facilité aujourd’hui en choisissant ce double-portrait. Un gros plan est immédiatement lisible. Avec une mère et son enfant dans les bras, on a là un tiercé gagnant. 
J’aime bien faire quelques portraits de temps en temps, mais photographiquement parlant, ça ne demande pas d’effort particulier. On cadre serré et on déclenche… Dans 90 % des cas les gens posent. Alors dire qu’on capte un regard est un peu abusif car la personne photographiée regarde l’objectif. Le seul talent nécessaire pour réussir un portrait en voyage : avoir le sens du contact. Rien de plus. Ce genre de cliché est pour moi une ouverture sur une relation plus personnelle avec les modèles. Grâce à la photo, j’ai  parfois accès à leur quotidien. Cette femme par exemple. Après l’avoir photographiée, ainsi que son mari qui lui, avait sa petite fille dans les bras, elle a tenu à m’offrir un café dans son magasin. Dans la conversation qui s’en est suivie, j’ai appris que le bar-épicerie n’était qu’un complément de revenu car le couple est propriétaire d’une grande parcelle de rizière. Et à Madagascar avoir une rizière permet de dégager des revenus relativement importants. Surtout que le cours du riz a explosé ces dernières années. Un portrait si l’on se donne la peine d’aller au-delà des apparences, apporte bien plus qu’une lueur dans le regard.

Vangaindrano (Madagascar) - Easy solution today by choosing this double portrait. A close-up is immediately readable. With a mother and her child in her arms, we have a trifecta.
I like to take a few portraits from time to time, but photographically speaking, it doesn't require any particular effort. We frame tightly and we trigger... In 90% of cases people pose. So saying that we capture a look is a bit abusive because the person photographed is looking at the lens. The only talent necessary to achieve a successful portrait while traveling: having a sense of contact. Nothing more. This kind of shot is for me an opening to a more personal relationship with the models. Thanks to photography, I sometimes have access to their daily lives. This woman for example, after having photographed her, as well as her husband who had his little daughter in his arms, wanted to offer me a coffee in her store. In the conversation that followed, I learned that the bar-grocery store was only a supplement to income because the couple owns a large plot of rice field. And in Madagascar, having a rice field allows you to generate relatively significant income. Especially since the price of rice has exploded in recent years.
If we take the trouble to go beyond appearances, a portrait brings much more than a glint in the eye.

Taken in: Madagascar / Atsimo-Atsinanana / Vangaindrano / Ampahatelo (show map)

Taken on: March 9, 2024

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Camera: Fujifilm GFX 50R, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, 100mm (=79mm), ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm GFX 50R
Lens:	GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	100mm (35mm equivalent: 79mm)
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	DxO PhotoLab 3.1.2
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