REDRUM

Terrific title! Classic composition, and perfect exposure. I really like your black and white conversion; you have every tone here. Excellent work ( and hilarious as all get out!). Happy New Year to You and Yours! Cheers! Chris

 

By the way, this has gone straight into "My Favorites."

Exclusion of the ladies' faces and putting him at the very center causes a strange feeling.

Difficult to describe, easy to feel!

He can not be looking at me; can he?

 

Chris & Bulent:

 

Thanks so much for your comments. I've been so absent over the last months that it comes as a surprise that anyone would notice a new upload.

 

Chris, I am so glad you got the humorous reference in the caption. Bulent, you may not be familiar with the movie The Shining, but it uses a number of fast slap zoom shots that quickly isolate the characters in various states of angst (and made the chant REDRUM a signature). In the above, the boy's look of dawning mischief while life proceeds around him just struck me as funny and reminiscent of some of those slap zoom shots.

 

Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR to both of you and to all members of your families!

I do know the film (like all the others from Mr. Kubrick).Actually, I consider myself a fan of his works (except for the last one, I think).

His use of bright lights (in contrast to his approach in Barry Lyndon) and contrasting colors as well as the unusual perspectives made Shining an entity in itself.

Jack Nicholson was also a perfect fit, by the way ;)

ummm.....oops. Leave it to me to pick on a Kubrick expert. :))

Sorry I'm so late to the party but I would be remiss not to comment on this gem. The photo is classic, it is both a documentary and a dramatically interesting picture. The decision to put this young guy right in the center of the composition is an intuitive bullseye. He is the focus of the picture and I'm sure, in many ways, the focus of the family. The action swirls around him, indicating a family going about business, perhaps preparing dinner in the kitchen. In this photo, the adults are reduced to cyphers and compositional bookends, anonymous indicators of family activity. The spotlight stays where it should, firmly fixed on the star of our show.. For some reason this reminds me of a family scene circa 1910.

Full of fine details...from the weave in the sweaters to the multiple piercings in the right-hand lady's ear.  And of course I caught the reference to The Shining right away.

Your usual excellent post-shoot processing...goes without saying.