[Leica] Guatemala

[Tina Manley]

Thanks, Don.  I appreciate your taking a look and commenting.  The recent
scans are the 61852 ones, from about page 33 to the end.  These have been
edited down from over 36,000 slides and I still have thousands more to
scan.  40 years of taking about 300 rolls a trip and often more than one
trip a year really adds up!!  I doubt I will ever go back and rescan the
earlier ones even though my scanning has improved since I did them.  I have
many more countries to go after I finish Guatemala.

You are right that the market wants very saturated colors.  That's what
attracts attention and sells.  For use for raising money for the agencies
in Guatemala, the colors would be toned down a little, but not much.
Guatemala is a very colorful country with the most colorful people I've
found anywhere.

Thanks for looking!!  Check back when you have time as I'll be adding more
all the time.  61853 - Guatemala Families is coming up next.

Tina

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 6:00 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> There are far too many to make competent comments.  The Lake Atitlan images
> as landscapes generally work very well.  Your immediately following market
> images are of very mixed impact.  As I don't know your particular market
> any comments I make will not be too helpful.  You have indicated in the
> past that many of your commercial sales are in the educational market so
> what to me is inconsequential might perfectly indicate the culture in terms
> of hair style or child rearing or clothing adaptation.
>
> I will say that on my screen the contrast can get quite high on some of the
> images; not commenting on saturation as the yarn choices made are on the
> vivid side.  Again, publishers might want that as printing might bring down
> contrast.
>
> Your medical series was impactful as you seemed to concentrate on very
> small gatherings centered on doctor/patient. These probably have a great
> deal of human impact as well as documentary substance.
>
> As I delve further on a decent screen I will add as seems necessary.
>
> I have a great deal of faith that you know your market and have chosen
> well.  I do know that when confronted with thousands of images and worried
> about a possibly very unwell spouse sometimes best editorial judgement is
> weakened.
>
> Truly, all the best and there are far more winners than can be easily be
> counted.
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 4:33 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > PESO:
> >
> > Those on Facebook have seen most of these but I'm trying to consolidate
> all
> > of my Guatemala photos in one album on pBase.  I've just uploaded them
> and
> > haven't titled most yet.  I'm working on it.
> >
> > They were all made with Leica cameras, mostly M6.   The lens was usually
> > the Noctilux.  The film was usually Kodachrome.  There are exceptions
> that
> > I will try to note but I was pretty consistent.
> >
> > I would appreciate comments, suggestions, etc.  I still have several
> > thousand to scan.  They are organized by filename and category.  I'm up
> to
> > 61852 - Guatemala, Indigenous People.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/guatemala&page=all
> >
> > Tina
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