rené asmussen photography Having Fun!

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Great shot. You captured the personalities of the children beautifully.

Great job.

I love this shot - beautiful composition, and the subjects are fresh and lovely! You have truly caught the spark in their eyes. :)

Great shot Renee, you captured their expressions wonderfully.

Awesome. The shallow depth of field really balances it out by making the girl on the right the focal point.

I rather not say much. This is truly an outstanding picture. 9/9

Wonderful expression!! Love the hair on the girl in the front. Precious image.. Well done.

Thanks for all the Kind Votes & COmments!

Beautiful photograph. Same goes for the subjects.The composition and exposure are just right. The motion sharpens the sense of joy. Great timing. The looks on the those faces are priceless and what hair!

 

Bravo, a POW (Prisoner of the Week) if I ever saw one.

 

 

The best comment I deliver to you, is to simply say this photo capture's a great deal of the photographic talents I someday hope to give myself and others. Well done!

The expressions are priceless. Excellent work.

Congrats on POW, and a very wonderful image. What developer and EI did you use on this roll of film?

I like it but the background is kind of weird?

Fantastic Job of capturing the free spirit of kids. Great portfolio too Renee. Bravo!

I love this picture and it is very evocative of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work. Wonderful moment captured.

Great photo Rene! You have a wonderful collection of photos. Somehow my EOS3 doesn't work as well! :)

 

Bravo!

Not only are thses little ladies having fun, but I have fun every time I see this. How can anyone not smile when they see this? Great photograph for the weekly tribute! Thank you.

What a warm photograph by ...., good grief, it's Rene Asmussen, again! What's going on here? Rene, You are the MAN! Two Photogs of the Week within a few weeks. An excellent achievement.

Moderator comment: The POW is to encourage feedback on the positive and negative aspects of a chosen image. Negative comments about "why" an image was chosen -- or simply congratulatory one liners -- or rants and repetative comments... Will be deleted as per policy to keep this forum informative and full of substance. This note is not exclusively for Doug. But - Doug - could you add a little more about what you like/don't like about the image. ;-)

First, the position of the girls hands on the left bothers me a little bit. The way they are cut off leaves me wanting to see what they are doing.

 

Second, the dodge marks could have been a little bit more subtle.

 

Was the background PS'ed? It seems more out of focs than the depth of field would have it.

 

An excellent photograph, and one that I would have been proud of taking, but in the spirit of keeping the thread informative I added these nit picks.

 

High scores from me. 8,8

I'll be glad to offer comments on this photo, but I think there should be limits on any photographer receiving POW honors within a specified time frame, a year perhaps.

The tonal gradations in this photograph are truly delightful as they seem to encompass as many grays as the medium allows. The capture of childish joy and of personalities not fully formed is refreshing, considering the dublicity that often accompanies adulthood. The subject on the right is my favorite of the two: Her interaction with the viewer is direct and honest. I'm not too excited about the rendition of the second child, whose expression appears caught in the middle of formation. I can see how the two of them together in the same frame make a certain statement, and I enjoy that statement, however, if this photo were in a magazine, personally, I would snip it in half and keep the girl on the right. (I wouldn't do this if it were an actual print.) For me, the right half of this photograph still holds all of the technical and artistic excellence that Rene is respected for, and for which we all love the medium, but the expression is caught and conveyed free of the awkwardness of the second child.

Ditto the HCB comment. Wow. I'd guess the blur of the child on the left is more due to motion than either DOF or any PS work. This is a joyous picture.

I like the composition of this image and I don't agree with Doug, the girl in the left is important to the composition, not only she brings the viewer's attention back to the girl on the right , but she interacts with the one on the right. On the other hand, I am not convinced that the general tones of this image please me, somehow they seem too neutral, medium... I think I would like more contrast.

I agree that she's important to THIS image and cropping her WOULD make a different picture altogther. I suppose, though, that I would still crop her out in favor of the different image. I'll agree with anyone that the picture resulting from my severe crop is a lot less joyous. That little girl exudes bottomless joy!

 

Actually, knowing myself, I'd probably never be comfortable with either version. I'd be bothered by so much that was removed, or bothered by so much that remained. Can I have it both ways?

 

Aside from that, I like Jean-Francois' observation that she draws attention back to the more direct girl. It's possible to look at the first girl...wait. I'm getting confused. It's possible to look at the girl on the right without much distraction from the one on the left, but more difficult the other way around and I guess that's because of the open and direct eyes of the one on the right.

 

The contrast issue is legitimate, but I think it's nice to see an image here and there that's spread extensively across the middle grays.

 

Expression are so well captured!! I wonder how much was done in PS. I think specially the background is "artificial", I mean, not the one originally photographed. But it adds a lot to the attractive composition.

 

I would have liked to see the second girl on the left in focus, given her intense interaction with the other girl and the camera. But living her out, would have given a totally different composition and IMHO not so "alive" like this one. I agree with Jean-Francois aobut more contrast and the (brownish) tone is just great.

 

PS: I also agree with Doug about the selection of POWs. I think that Rene's work is just great, and we all know his work from a long time ago. But POW gives a great exposition to the photographer, so why to select the same photographer twice in a year, given that there's 52 chances through the whole year to select among 380.000 images? There's many good photographer's here who deserve to be pow'ed too.

Great work Rene...You're on a roll, aren't ya'? You have such a great eye for people and landscapes. This is an interesting departure from the other shots you've posted lately. I like it. 9/9