Thanks to my partner, Jeff, for drawing all the shuji and for just being so patient with my many attempts at taking this picture.
He's worked hard at mastering Japanese for many years now, so that's what I wanted to show in this picture.
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This is a well composed photograph, with the calligrapher framed by his work.
As this is advanced editing, improvements to this photo would have been to clone or crop out the sunlight in the left side and using something to reflect that light to the calligrapher or by working with your brightness and contrast to bring him out and make him the focus of the picture. Those are the only two areas I can see that need improvement on.
Yeah! Gotta love white guys writing shufa. I haven't practiced in a long while either. This guy is GOOD. Nice table too.
I guess he knows his hand position is off for Chinese style writing. I don't know what the Japanese influence has been on it though. Proof is in the pudding though.
I would have liked it even better if he was writing characters that had more direct meaning to your title too.
Edit: looks like there is no support for chinese characters in posts...
Very appealing photo., possibly because it is so thoughtful or the guy is goodlooking. I think I would have liked it better without the curtains, they aren't adding anything of value and neither is the light on the left. Appears slightly underexposed on my monitor.
lovely picture, very serene. if the characters on the wall are his (yours?) then his calligraphy is impressive. there are a few things that could have helped this in the post processing:
1. cloning out the bright spot in lower left
2. increasing the contrast on the image
3. a bit of sharpening
- but this remains a very good photograph in any case. 8
I like the composition and imagery. I think you need a great job framing the image with the drapery...really cool look- feels like I'm peeping in on a man lost in deep thought.
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