As I was speaking with Anthony, a native dancer who was taking a break between performances, I noticed his shadow. Low angle, afternoon sunlight cast his shadow on a nearby glowing adobe wall in Golondrinas. El Rancho de las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows), is an historic rancho and now a living history museum just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
EF 28-70mm @ 70mm; f/5 @ 1/125 sec, -1 EV, ISO 100
Bob,
I really love this shot, it has a lot going on, if anything I might have moved him to be off center just a bit, so he is to the left of center a hair (maybe a crop?) but as a Native American myself and I keep my tribal ties, this is a great shot
Thank you, Buddy. This image was made a couple of decades ago and it was a quick-twitch-muscle response. When I posted the image I noticed the same "tension" of having Anthony's face too close to the right edge. I know exactly why it is so—I couldn't ask him to move, it would have altered his position relative to the other shadows on the wall; I couldn't move myself because my shadow would have then been on the wall. What I should have done was to use a shorter focal length and then crop appropriately in post-processing. No excuses, I simply was too inexperienced to recognize the obvious flaw, know the solution and execute it. I have since added more wall to the right side and cropped the left side. I am attaching a small rendition showing the change.