"SURE.............?????"

15 minutes before the wedding...............

smoking a cigarette.................................

captured an unguarded moment..............

Am I Sure...............................................?

 

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I bet she hates this photo !

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4289197

This is great!---They always say that being single is hell, and being married is purgatory, and I think she is bracing herself for purgatory!

Terrific candid shot. I'm not going to speculate on what she's thinking or feeling other than, "God I really need a cigarette."

Yea a perfect moment!

This is great - an exemplary example (is that redundant? lol) of my favourite type of "people" photography; those unguarded moments that sum up who a person is, or what's going on in that instant in time. I bet this woman's close friends absolutely adore this photo. Bravo! On a technical level, nice job with the focus - the DOF is very effective, the background enhances the subject, giving it context but without being distracting.

I have to agree with Elizabeth wholeheartedly. I'm a longtime portrait painter who's finally doing photography just as seriously (did it all along but now have the serious equipment and whoa, an EOS 10d too!). I've done a few weddings and family shoots and I always stress to them that posing is rarely the most important part of a photograph. Its the story, it's the 'event' and all that comes with it as this photo demonstrates. She's human = beautifully rendered too. I'll be picking up a 4x5 in the Bay Area when I go there to visit so haven't given up on film either but its nice to see another 10d user out there and know what my camera is capable of. And being a 'people' sort of photographer, artist, I can only hope to capture a fraction of what you have so well! vey nice work.

 

Carole F

Once this is not a model prepared scene, it's a once in life photo. Simply EXTRAORDINARY !!