Basket Making 1 by nathalie06

Photography • Portraits • posted on Jan 10, 2006

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Photographies made with my Nikon D70S and a Tamron lens 18-200 mm. Little postwork with Nik Color Effect Pro (filter "Classical Soft Focus") and framed with Photoshop 7 Hi my friends !!! I continue my serie of photographies made in Thailand. Some weeks ago I've show you some portraits of a lovely old woman, you remember ? It was these shots : "Old GrandMother 1" and "Old GrandMother 2" I've work for 2 days with this adorable little GrandMother, who teach us to make some baskets of Bambu (I said "us" because there where another young french woman with me, Katia). To make baskets is something I dreamed since so many years, and it was the first time I could try to make one. But we have made all with her, the first thing was to go in the forest to choose and cut with her son the right bambu. It seems easy... but it's not so easy when you must do all by yourself ;o))))) From a fresh bamboo, we cuts it into 8 or 10 pieces, in the length sense, with a machete, or a big knife. And then from each piece, and always with the long knive, we cut 6 ou 8 small strips that will be used for making the basket. I have photographied the little GrandMother, but after she show us how to do.... we have made our own materiel of course. It wasn't so easy but it was very funny to work together with her. She has an incredible ability to use her hands as well as her feet. Well on we used her technique, which is very practical ! I've made these 2 shots with an exposure of 1/40 sec and a diaphragm of 3.9 - ISO 200, to have the movement of her hands. And that's just the begining of our work !!!! Thank you for all your comments on my post of yesterday : "For Zulaan and Cygne..." If you want to see the photography of Trees post in GIANCARLO'S gallery today, just click here : "I Pioppi Emiliani" Have a wonderful evening my friends !!! And so many Hugs to you !!! Nathalie, and always close to me, Giancarlo

Comments (34)

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Chaos911

2:32PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

what a F A N T A S T I C shot and work!!!! super cooooool!!! :)

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Onslow

2:35PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Superb photography Nathalie and very thoughtful to use the slow shutter speed - excellent work :)

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Hedepo

2:36PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Hallo Nathalie, Excellent photo of the Basket-Grand-Mother, the movement of her hand you capturred very clever!! Must have been very enjoyable to learn from this old lady!! Have a nice evening!!

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tibet2004uk

2:37PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Nice. Must have been a great experience indeed.

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CDBrugg

2:46PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

superbes images

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kimariehere

2:47PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

WOW i really enjoyed seeing her looks like she sure knows what she is doing!!... fantastic shots here i would love to see the finished basket - i hope you took one home with you!!

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jinet

2:49PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Non mais je re Nathalie, tu te mes faire du DELMUR maintenant ha ha ! C'est aussi bien que l'original hu hu ! Bon allez, c'est de l'excellente live-photography, du pur haut de gamme (surtout celle du haut, individuellement encore meilleure que celle du bas).

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tmathise

2:54PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Really great presentation Nathalie, splendid photography too! I'd imagine this woman has some fantastic stories to share. Have a most wonderful day/evening.

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DELMUR

3:09PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

je ne savais pas pas que les m jouaient au basket en thaande! bonne id que de donner aux gens l'id de voir ailleurs!!En plus ,l'artisanat , c'est tellement un truc qui se perd!

visiergraupe

3:12PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

awesome images!

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Zacko

3:19PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

You just dont see people of that age being that active in these modern industrial countries. I think these photos are soooo wonderful. Excellent captures to say the least Nathalie. You should be very proud of them. Have a wonderful night. #:O) ...and go easy on the scotch will ya. LOL.

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marybelgium

3:24PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

superbe portraits et prentation ! bravo Nathalie et bravo la granny qui est vraiment tr clever !

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Cosme..D..Churruca

3:38PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

How interesting ! Must be quite difficult... superb pics !

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iaacf

3:41PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

What a superbe portraits.. really well done.. Not only the compo is right, but also the colors. Bright and crisp.

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TwoPynts

3:46PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Your 'Old Grandmother' images and text are a joy to experience and this is no exception. Thank you for the lesson! =]

Georgy

3:55PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

These are fantastic images. looks like National Geographic work.

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jcv2

4:08PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Beautiful captures of this old instructor teaching you how to do it! She must be sooo experienced! Great you tried, did you get a nice result out of it? Wonderful work, Nathalie! :)

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zulaan

4:51PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Elle est fabuleuse !!! Sur la premie t'as me chopp le mouvement avec ce flou sur sa main gauche qui restitu son geste. Quelles poses et quelle application dont elle fait preuve ! Magnifique !

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kansas

4:57PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Excellent photos of the special lady and her craft. Thank you for sharing.

uniquedreamer

5:04PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Superb and wonderfully captured images.

Valerie-Ducom

5:07PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

very good capture in these photos, i like very much this composition of 2. well done ;) good evening

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Laelia

6:18PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

B'Soir copine, tu as repris le cours de ton reportage Tha avec la mamie qui t'a appris faire de jolis tressages ! Comme Andr je trouve que tu as extrement bien captles gestes de son ouvrage.. Et la nettet les couleurs sont fides Magnifique Nathalie ! ZibouX

unike

8:19PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Tres bonne photo! C'etait une magnifique voyage!! Merci pour le montrez!!

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maggiemai

9:04PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Wow!! I love to see these photos that you took in Thailand! This is so incredible to see and your pictures are wonderful!! Thank you so much for sharing these with us. :-))) The little grandmother is so adorable and you can tell she is a very hard worker. It must've been so amazing to meet and work right with her. I hope to see more! :-) V

cricounette

10:11PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

Ce sont des images fabuleuses et je trouve que tu as saisi la perfection les beaut de ce pays, aussi bien de la nature que maintenant de l'artisanat! ta photo est d'une nettetet d'une couleur couper le souffle .. criante de vit bravissimo ! "V"

camera2

11:11PM | Tue, 10 January 2006

She certainly is very handy with the knife in the way she is holding it and cutting the bamboo. Glad to see your continuing the series from your trip. Thank you for sharing a page out of your life. Egmont

Kirk_1962

3:44AM | Wed, 11 January 2006

hey! ...do a book with your traveler pic's!!!! ...excellent!!! :)

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