There's not much to say about this face except that she's the unknown little girl who tapped on my shoulder while I was super busy trying to compose a shot at the Sri Dalada Perahera this year. She was with her family, seated next to me and she was looking at me with this priceless expression on her face when I gave her my attention upon being interrupted. Well... how could I possibly say 'no' to this look on any child's face? Therefore, one quick shot, this one, and some words to her mischievous self and I was engrossed in the Perahera once again.
Portraits like this do not happen often. Only a child could smile with all this innocence in front of a camera (and perhaps a very old man or woman) and even then you cannot force it out of them. When moments like this happen, and when I get a portrait like this off my camera, I realize why I sometimes like to click faces even though I try to tell myself often (with arrogance of course) that I am beyond snapping faces and calling it photography. After all, my 10 year old niece takes really great portraits too !
As for the technicalities of it, this photograph is meant to be in colour. This is not a good candidate for black and white. The lighting, the mood, her expression...... everything requires this portrait to be in colour. That's something a photographer must be good at deciding.
Hope you like my little stranger as much as I do.
