In Her Eyes

Me taking a picture of her she catches me and my husband in her

glasses. I didn't plan this it just happened and it struck me as

facinating so please tell me what you think.

This is great! Very well captured Micki!! (tell Fergi he needs more lotion)I think the very cool thing about this shot is that it is a good composition but even the reflections in the glasses is a good composition that stands on it's on merits! very neat! That one curl of hair coming down the forehad is just perfect.

Very nice and original! I like it. Regards, Ivana

Hi Micki!

 

I like it too! In a way, we get to see through her eyes. :-D I also enjoy the B&W approach! GREAT capture!

 

Aw, I am again in a weekend camp... (Happily the last one for this spring...) I am a bit slow in answering and commenting, during these camps... But, I answered to your question concerning the stage performer. :-)

 

CU!

Alpo

I was THRILLED when I got this picture and even if it did make my HIPS look big I said it was good! LOL

 

It is hopefully something I can do more of!

 

My friend Wendy was a trouper us taking pictures of each other over and over.

 

 

A very nice, and original shot Micki. Best regards, Torfinn.

Great stuff, Micki. Not many things are more fun than reflections.

Great idea, best regards

Great work Micki! excellent framing and subject matter! Why isn't hubby at the golf course on a nice sunny day? ;p!

This was our first beach trip as we went down there with a friend (the one wearing the glasses.

 

AND YES, Andrew was thrilled to take a day away from GOLF (NOT) he he!

 

I just enjoyed watching all the people.

I enjoyed taking the fam to the beach and watching the kids play in the water and the ladies ogle the lifeguards, too. Nothing like seeing 5 guys with a combined body fat of 6 percent. Would have loved to go to the course but the fam was first, but rest assured Paul, I went later that afternoon and played the back nine in 40. The little sacrifices we make.

Oh, Micki, this is a great capture, great framing in the glasses; you even got your feet in case you want to add them to your feet series.

love me

Very Cool Micki!

The object of photographer is to 'frame' a subject; it is inevitable that a photograph must have boundaries and the photographer most often is 'bound' by the lines of the frame.

 

Here those lines, if you will, are 'blurred'.

 

Yes, indeed, there are the traditional frame lines, all straight and box-like around the 'picture'.

 

But within the picture there is another sort of 'frame' in two senses -- both a photographic frame and a 'glasses' (or sunglasses) frame.

 

In a way, this photo is an elaborate 'pun' . . . and I noticed it 'on reflection' [if you get my meaning(s)].

 

Wide hips or not (and the center of such a reflection is like a fun house mirror, so we can draw no conclusion about how you look in reality), this photo has become an elaborate device for substituting the oval of the sunglasses frame for the normal four straight lines of the ordinary photographic frame, which, although they exist, are rather superfluous (in a sense).

 

Like men, they can easily be overlooked, but they ARE necessary, at least in the larger view (again if you can get my meaning).

 

So, the photo is a double photo -- a doppleganger -- a Picasso-esque sort of look, although you are not sprouting arms from your head and a nose from your neck -- Picasso-esque in that it gives us two views of YOU -- and Picasso's technique was to mix perspectives (at least following his 'blue' and 'cubist' periods and into his later years.)

 

So, what you have done is given us a photo of not only you looking, but you looking at you looking and photographing -- all a very elaborate sort of photograph and quite complicated and apparently also as seen (on reflection) in the eyes of another (if that's your friend with the glasses).

 

It's interesting that somehow you 'overlooked' that your 'husband' was in the photograph -- do you do that in real life too? That would be telling, but somehow I doubt that in reality, or that you would be so self-absorbed -- however 'concentrating' on your main subject is quite another description entirely and might fit well.

 

All in all, this is a photo to enjoy and extremely high on the originality scale -- and if one did not tend to rate aesthetics the same as originality, the originality scores on this one should soar.

 

I am not rating it (I seldom do), but rather leave a substantial comment; this is a wonderful work, and maybe even the start of something serious or seminal.

 

Please have a look at my portfolio in black and whie of the woman in the poster who's examining what appears to be her eye or glasses, (who actually is photographing herself) and the woman, lower right, who is adjusting or replacing her contact lenses.

 

The photo in the poster in the Paris Metro -- above ground there -- was part of an advertisement for an exhibition of photographic auto-portraits -- in other words, photos like this in which the portrait photographer was taking photos of him/herself.

 

That exhibition in Paris may be open each year, and I suggest you locate it and make this a submission in this year's event . . . it might stand up well to competition.

 

What's interesting about this photograph also is that the 'darkness' around the eye, compared to the brightness of the reflective glass surface, emphasizes the reflected subject.

 

Query: Were you 'reflecting' on yourself?

 

And your status in life?

 

Were you trying to see yourself as others see you; are there any changes apparent?

 

And isn't self-reflection to be expected under the circumstances?

 

With profound respect,

 

John (Crosley)

I am uploading more of the picture in color for you to see it as I might upload it for a rating too.



It is funny as you are right about so many things. The fact that I do try to find natural frames on things when I am doing photographs now and I didn't realize that. This picture was one of those moments where I was just taking pictures of her and the beach behind her and I obviously didn't realize that my husband was looking and my TUSH as he does so often. And YES, this picture does make it a bit bigger than it really is but that is fine with me as I am very comfortable with my TUSH as it makes my boobs (what my daughter calls them) smaller and I know they are not small. I actually love the warped look the picture has and the ay her eyebrow and curl look as this is totally the characteristic of my friend.

I would knonw in an instant that this is her and that she is Irish. I would also know, of course that we are on a beach becaue of the sand.

I did not plan this shot or go looking for it as it just happened and now after looking at the color shot I almost like it more.

Funny thing is after looking at your work and your details I find myself draws to what you do. Now I just have to get out of my shell and feel comfortable doing it. I do enjoy doing self portaits and have found myself clicking away and have caught Andrew in the background several times like this picture here.

It is strange how we don't notice someone when they are there, He however is very obnoxious normally and is hard to miss so I truly enjoy it when he is in the shadows. Thank you for your critique. I have finally gotten out of my shell and even took some pictures of some "life guards" that was a treat. Of course they thought I was taking pictures of my friend but they did "PRIMP" for me anyway!