Precocious Child, Doylestown, PA 2009

So I ask Mom if I can take a few shots of her daughter. "You'll have to

ask her." I do, and Blondie accepts. She has her Weimaraner dog with

her, and while I am moving around she says (I am not inventing

this), "There's this man, William Wegman, and he dresses up his

Weimaraners and takes their pictures." And they say kids today are

illiterate?

Very nice portrait!

Lovely little lady and a great portrait taking job by you. Well done.

 

Regards,

Holger

It's just for example! I will re-rate it in a few days. So: the portrait is fine, eyes in focus, colours are natural but it is hardly an original immage..and there is something very bright in a background that does not work for immage quality , so...3/3. The system forces us to wright down good comments only, or to stay anonimous, but in that case you will never have useful, honest feedback.. because I would fear that you will, anonimously, rate my photos 3/3.

I write negative comments all the time.

And what about the BOKEH? What about THAT?

:) No hard feelings. Maybe my english is not good enough..Best regards, vf

 

In photography, bokeh is the blur,or the æsthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

 

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.

 

Les, what bokeh? I see, it's a joke, OK.

 

 

nice portrait.

Beautiful !! Lovely capture .................................. Best regards.

Les, There are some technical issues with this image, some of which could be cleaned up in post-processing. But from one who takes candids of children, it's the child and not always the technical issues that matter. My heart skipped a beat when I saw this one. I wish so much I had been there for some opportunities myself. Wonderful capture !! David

The bokeh ?! What a charming taunt. The bokeh here is spelled bouquet, and it is all in the smile. When I traced Vladimir’s scrupulous techno-comments (missing the forest for the trees, this one not being a studio portrait), then catching up with the irony of his own ‘a,b,c-s, I smiled. But when I got to David skipping a heartbeat, I felt a wave of synergic aesthetic comradery, a unity of spiritualism of sorts. That was about as in-earnest sublime a compliment as any photographer will ever receive. Having particularly enjoyed the uniquely personal touch of a situational introduction, I drifted through the thread anticipating saying something complimentary, palliative (3/3 – nuts!), trivial. I too skipped a breath with this girl’s natural charismatic ‘neposredstvennost’ –

a Russian term roughly delineating a bouquet of unposed disarming endearing naturalness. One touchingly beautiful child. In my opinion, Photoshop technical-ism would be a waste of time. Lovely!

 

Thank you both for the heartfelt comments. You can't know how much I appreciate them.

It's mentioned that it's unoriginal (but really how much is really original nowadays with the proliferation of so many images we're bombarded with in this digital age) but it's well done - good work.

It is a delightfull portrait. Very natural!

I have to agree with Vladimir. She is a natural beauty, outside and inner beauty. She is not shy from the camera.

The skin tone rendition and colours are superb.

Her smile is contagious.

 

But right from my first glance at this photo, I wished that white board wasn't there, it is very distracting unfortunatly and it competes too strongly against her.

 

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

crisp, fresh and great color... lovely portrait, Les... Happy Holidays

Absolutely gorgeous Model. Skin tone is perfect. Warm regards.

I like the contrast...perfect/imperfect!

Having seen your name for awhile, I decided to jump over to your portfolio and am glad I did. Some interesting stuff going on here! Then I read your bio, which piqued my interest even more, and here I am. The interchange (dialog) on this image has been really interesting. Personally, I like the bright light.....angelic, shall we say? With her blond hair, it works for me. And those eyelashes!! Amazing! A wonderful subject to be sure. But what I'd like to know is......how do you get a mom to allow you to photograph her daughter? You must be very charming.... :-) Seriously, I'd love to shoot more people, but I haven't had good luck in doing so. As a woman I thought I'd be less threatening, but even in public places like a zoo, I always ask before I shoot.....and I'm always told no. Maybe I need to work on my technique. :-)

This child has never been photographed before to look exactly this way so that makes it an original for me.  When the center of interest is presented with such effortless technique, and has such immediate impact, it takes awhile to even get into a critical frame of mind.  For me, the bright reflection in the background serves as a subliminal balance to the girl and seems appropriate---as opposed to a dark rock or anything dark.  Where some subjects cast a shadow she casts a bright!

Very nice street portrait.  Nice soft lighting and spontaneous expression on a lovely girl.  I think that Igor was complaining about the white board in the background being somewhat distracting.  Sometimes in impromptu shots the background is what it is!