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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Chicha Drinkers
From: felixmaturana at telefonica.net (FŽelix L—opez de Maturana)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:04:12 +0200
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>
> Still editing the Chinchero market photos.  I don't think I'll ever 
> finish this day!!  It was probably my most fun day photographically, 
> though.  Lots of people who never objected to being photographed:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/image/110978046
>
> Caption:  Quechua men and women in distinctive hats drink chicha, 
> corn beer fermented with saliva, at the Sunday market in the village 
> of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.  The glasses are dipped in 
> water with herbs between each use to sanitize them.
>
> The contrast was extreme between the bright sunny background and the 
> darker shady foreground under a canopy.  I tried using curve 
> adjustment layers.  Any other suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Tina
>
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com 
>   
You captured the "ambiente" perfectly and the distended talk. I cannot 
imagine this image in b&w. The "chicha" could be the "martini" of the 
quechas.

Regrads.

Felix