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great kids photo ... when you look at this photo you can see the whole story ...

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Oh...! Kids looking like Adults.

 

Nice expressions, sharpness and contrast.

Excellent work. Real enagagement with the subjects. And yes, shades of Sally Mann.

Great tones and background.Face expressions to.The crop is really unnecessary.Don't like the right hand position of the middle boy.Otherwise everything works just great.Your portfolio is full of very expressive pictures.And you are so productive!Great work!Cheers from Brazil!

The 2nd boy is a necessary element. But, there seems something awkward about him. His hand position & cutting the foot off? He just seems awkward. The rest of the shot is very good. The expressions are great

The composition and body language are good, and the heavy stylization makes it eye-catching. For an image like this, however, I think the dodging manipulation is overdone. I realize this is a fashionable style these days, the photoshop simulation of a dappled, reflected, horizontal light. But when it's pushed to this degree, the viewer no longer can perceive what the light actually was doing to the subject at the time, and the absence of this actuality robs the medium of its primary power.

I prefer this one...

It bothers me. Looks too sexual to me and I'd be concerned for how it's setting up those 3 in their own minds, not to mention whoever

looks on. Children "grow up" (or so we call it) too quickly as it is, and to picture them this way is troubling to me. My humble opinion, as

we say.

For me the most interesting in this photo is the contrast between boys and girl expressions. Technically very well done.

Really Powerful P.O.W

 

Incredible subject,Nice position and the best style to show what photTographer wanted.

 

Using lights and mood , B&W mood and... are perfect.

 

The interesting part of this shot is the sort of smile and lour.The Smiling cute girl and Lour beautiful boy after her.

 

It has amazing mood and arrangmentes & Directed rightly & perfectly By the PhotoGrapher.

Just short response from me the author of the photo...the children on this picture - girl and boy besides her - my two children ( the 3 rd boy friend of them ) , we went this summer to wild seaside in our country and found old house near the sea without the roof..., so it was more unexpected photosession than planned, just one thing I asked children to make the composition of the bodies, just not to stand still :) as to the expressions of the children there s sad story about all of them- this year father of these two kids left them.....( very similar situation with the 3 rd boy)......so expressions speak by themselves...they are a bit sad, ironic....lost...daughter trying to smile...but its more ironical than calm smile........every year we went to sea together....with my husband, now he is gone...he left them .......

I love this picture. I keep wondering over their faces and the 3 different expressions catch your eyes on the image. If it had be me, I would have make a rectangular photo, cutting out their legs. The faces are so strong and magic, that it would be only better if there were no distractions at all.

Very nice photo.

Definitively state of art, one image showing all the difference between boys and girls attitude, expression since very early age. Somebody mentioned "premature" growth of today’s youth, well I agree but there is nothing to do about, it is just the way as it is. However, this image has it all - posing and rivalry typical for boys behavior in relation with girls and coquetry typical for girls of course. Has it all just the age of actors can appear to be not appropriate however, I found it natural, bit instinctive maybe but this is what we are. Excellent work indeed, my congratulations! 7/7

As are so many of Gundega's photos, this one has a very classic look to it. It would be a nice addition to a large, hardbound book of fine art photography.

This is a very emotionally laden photograph - that will please many and offend a few. More importantly, to me, it led me to her marvelous portfolio - a real treasure chest of incredible images!

I was amazed to see so many interesting photographs in your portfolio. Most of them really interesting, as is this one. I did note that a number of them are of your little girl flaunting dress up atire. Nice having your own model right there at home.

 

With this POW image, I see flaws which bother me a little. First, the skin on the legs of the central figure and the girls legs appears strangely mottled giving me the impression of veins showing through. Maybe it's just my monitor, but I've never seen this before on any B & W image. Secondly, you've cut off the great toe of the third child. If it was in the original, I think it should be included here, or...

 

As a quick fix, I would crop the picture away below the girls elbow. Then no more missing toe and no mottled skin.

 

Willie the Cropper

I just noticed what Bill Tate pointed out on the legs... Strange indeed... And I agree with Beau about excessive burning, as I explained when I earlier commented on this image - pre-POW. But these two things aside, I was so glad to see this picture made it to the front door of the site.

 

You just told us a sad story about what happened to you and to them - and exactly the same happened to me a few years back, by the way -, but I'd like to say this: this picture moved me a lot, and you certainly know well who your kids are, and you can certainly raise them up well and teach them how to see what you've seen that day, and how wonderful life can be - in and outside of a viewfiender... You will soon see new roads in your life and in their lives, and it will be ok... What doesn't kill someone always makes him stronger, as they say...:-)

 

As a conclusion, I'll join Steve Bingham to congratulate you on an amazingly rich portfolio, where humans are truly humans, which is very beautiful to behold. All the best.

Personaly ... I like this kind of photos ... the stand , the look , the status ... seems to be so spontaneous ... and if i take it as a photographic : light , contrast , expo ... perfect ................ for me .

The most captivating element for me in this photo is the coloring. It is so vintage, yet very contemporary and playful.

It shows the attitude of the children; the boy in the middle taking himself very seriously, the girl seeming comfortable

in her youthful age, the boy on the left looking a little awkward. All very true to what kids are like at this age. I

absolutely adore children, and your subjects are so beautiful, au naturale.

Thanks for sharing such a nicely composed image.

I really love this photo. The story telling aspect is just great. I find myself staring at the picture longer than normal.

Great work!

This is a great photo. The girls face is priceless and the pose on "tough" boy in the center is just great. The awkwardness of his pose gives a tension between child and adult. They look both innocent and worldly-wise at the same time. The post-processing you chose goes so well with the subject. I wouldn't do a thing to change this. I think the boy on the left gives necessary balance to the composition and the story (at least the one in my mind). If I hadn't read your explanation, and most people seeing this will not have, I'd think it was three kids under the pier, and the middle boy is trying to steal kisses from the girl, but they got caught by the camera and are looking a bit guilty.

I am in the minority here. Technically this is very good pix. But, like Janet Cull, I was at first more disturbed by it than impressed by the obvious excellent photographic elements per se. I was just about to write something rather scathing about the use of young children in certain kinds of photos, when I read Gundega Dege’s insertion about this being a pix of the photographer’s children and a moving reason for the expression on their faces. Well, for me the lesson was: If it is true that a photo tells more than a 1 000 words, then one should make quite sure you read the right text before commenting on the expressions and body language of the people (be it small and not so small) in it.

The kid in the middle has a highly inappropriate pose(look at his hand where his crouch is, what does that finger look like? what is the girl smiling about?). I would never expose my kids or any other kids in this manner, especially on the internet. Very dangerous.