paulstenquist Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 This morning's shoot in a neighbor's home.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulstenquist Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 Another pic from this morning's shoot.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Paul: love those, especially the 2#.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didier Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 December 7th, 2003<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 XXX<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 XXXX<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 And they start growing up.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 And become Women... praise the Lord.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 BTW Paul, that second one of yours is going to be a heirloom photo for that family. Well done my friend, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulstenquist Posted December 28, 2003 Author Share Posted December 28, 2003 Thanks Marc. I really enjoyed yours as well. Your affection for some of the subjects shines through. I'm just learning to use my studio strobes, so I'm practicing on the neighbors <g>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_cranmer Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Very nice portraits. Seems a bit cheeky given the above, more like Mother and Son, with a cheapo before I got the Leica and I still haven't mastered this scanning business: http://homepage.mac.com/andrew.cranmer/PhotoAlbum3.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_chananie Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Marc, what does your contract specify that gains you such access? Certainly different than anything Monty produces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Andrew, huh? Your post must be missing a sentence or something. David, Monty who? Monty Python? Access is totally up to the bride. Many want the whole day documented, and they mean everything. Others are more shy. We talk about it before hand. A lot of young women want shots of themselves at their best, knowing full well time will take it's toll.I retain the right to use any image for non profit, self promotional or educational purposes. I just can't sell an image like this to a woman's underwear company without a signed release. IMO, shots like this are just part of the day. A moment when the mom really realizes her little girl is a woman. The touch of the mom is what made it so special to the bride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_cranmer Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Marc - Not quite sure I understand your point, but it seems to be some kind of put-down. I thought the above were stunningly good portraits of a mother and her daughter and, with some considerable trepidation, I ventured a first picture here, albeit one taken with an extremely second-hand, dodgy Nikon FG-20 which tided me over between my previous gear getting stolen and buying a new camera a week or so back. Evidently a mistake. FWIW, which I doubt is of any consequence, I thought Paul's were excellent, although very clean and formal compared to the normal business of bringing up small children - in the second the bond between the two shines through and it is almost begging to get rid of the somewhat formal clothes and the pearls (remnants of the age pre-baby?) and return to day-to-day messy reality. Didier's is also excellent - the slightly stiff head of the daughter and the folded arms of the mother show the, perhaps inevitable, detachment that comes with time, a longing to be closer than can be admitted by either. Yours are of a technical standard that I can only aspire to. The lack of warmth, as opposed to posed affection, is palpable in the first one - baby as ornament. Day-to-day messy reality as taken care of by the au pair? Wentong's is simply wonderful. Anyway, I gave it a try. I think I'll stick to life without internet forums (or should that be fora) after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Andrew, no need to go off. I simply didn't understand your text. It referred to something I just didn't grasp. I certainly was not referring to your image in any way. As to your comment on my first image, rather than the coldness you perceived ("child as ornament"), could the mother be exhibiting a constrained pride for her very first baby? And there is a slight tiredness in her features (if you take a moment to look beyond the surface) due to it being a recent and difficult birth. Some people are subtile and restrained in their expressions and demeanor.. but I don't try to make them into someone else for a photo... that would be layering in my own ideals. Not all photos of children need be reality based nor candid. I do plenty of those also. But sometimes people want to escape that reality and have a really nice formal portrait taken of their family... which, as opposed to a snapshot, they are willing to pay many hundreds of dollars for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Nice photos. Ignore the Troll, just stirring, like they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_cranmer Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Marc - Perhaps we both misinterpreted the other. Apologies. BTW, I did try to see that in your first shot, but somehow it didn't come through, although I can see that for others it would. Cheers Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_chananie Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Thanks, Marc, and I meant Zucker. I liked each of your pics, and the profile shot seems to me to have a touch of elegance. The shot of the bride in the dressing room being touched by her mother perhaps blurs for you in a multitude of shots for the day, but of course, here, we only see the one. Hence, it stands out more, at least for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Marc, "mama's little gal" is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Yes Andrew, mutual mistake. Sometimes intended meaning just blows by us. Paul, sorry didn't mean for this to hijack your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 nice photos all. marc, as usual your photos are tops. this is in no way a criticism of you, but the mom in the first one should have NOT worn that watch. it is huge, ugly and distracting. but that said...nice shot.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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