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Thanks...

tonality and everything are really great.

 

and the toes... magnifique!

... good work ...

I see you've been using this model a lot lately. Does she work cheap> lol Very nice exposure and pose. I suppose some might fault the dead center composition, but I have no quarrel with it. The image feels very connected to nature.

I married her for easy and inexpensive access to modeling.

 

Actually, she just cut her hair short, and is about to turn 45: she wanted a photo shoot to document her long hair and her state at 45. (I think it's a real good state, myself.) We shot evening and morning, camping in between, on our remote land where we plan to build and live in a couple years.

First and foreall I want to congratulate you with your wonderful Lady. Obviously you take good care of her :)... Of course the image is very well composed and processed. Enjoy life - both of you!!! Regards, El

So glad to see your continuing delving into this sort of work, Tim. It helps to have such a compelling subject, of course!

 

On this one, one of the challenges is the similarity in tone, texture, and density between her hair and the foliage near it. If you had the room to back up, and go with your 85/1.8, you might have been able to open up to closer to f/2.8, and buy yourself just a little more isolation from the shrubbery. I would hate to lose the focus on the foreground rocky ground, though, since her connection to it is so important to the mood you've created. Beautiful!

Matt, please forgive my fifth-wheel intrusion, but that was an inspiringly well thought-out comment. For me, though, the texture difference between hair and background is perfect as it is, and would be too emphatic if it were heightened. I may be overly sensitive to this sort of thing after seeing too many images where background blur was artificially added in Photoshop.

I made a point of using each of my lenses on this shoot, Matt, and this shot just happened to emerge from the 18-200 series. I see your point exactly and, as is so often the case when you comment, I learn from it. Thank you. And to Jamie, thanks to you, too (not only for weighing in with Matt, but for the Steiglitz comparison above!). I get to remain neutral on the issue: I like it the image as it is, but next time I'll have more awareness and skill thanks to Matt's comment, and then we'll just see what the future produces!

This portrait of your wife has that something special. For me, that something special is bridging the gap between personal and iconic. It has a universal appeal in its elegance, stateliness, barefooted comfort, and elongated strong and purposeful pose. At the same time, it has tenderness and sensuality. It is larger than life and very much steeped in life as well. It is the woman as statue and the woman as natural body. I see here both a goddess and a simple grown girl. The environment helps add to all these impressions. Really well done! Congrats.

Tim, I just saw this in the "No Words" Forum and just had to come to your portfolio and look at the full-size photo. This is an utterly beautiful example of fine-art portraiture, one of the very best that I have seen in a long time.

 

Your lensmanship is near perfect and you have a very lovely model. What more could a photographer want in life?

 

My very highest regards to you both.