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Please take a look & tell me what you think. I want brutal honesty.

Thanks J.

A very lovely image!

 

 

I think if you had used a black netting, as you did in other photos, you could have goten a better image.

Great again!

Thanks Gershon Danny & Bob.

 

Danny- you are definitely right, however, this is a hat we picked up at a 2nd hand store, I adore the hat, but it has an ivory veil. I'm into veils right at this moment :) This one is so neat, it's from the 50-60's & ties in the back :)

 

But... definitely black would have been more striking. I'm looking for the hat that Gloria Swanson had on in a 50's photo I've seen . Amazing stuff. Went to a "Kodak through the years" Art Exhibit & can't get her image out of my head :)

 

Try, try, again :) Thanks for your suggestions.

Wonderful image...agree a black veil would add to this image...

Great eyes.

Ger

Jayme,

A very nice capture, though I would have to disagree with the suggestion that the black veil would have improved the image. Black would offer an impression of either mourning, or sexuality, neither of which IMHO would compliment the guarded youth of the model. The white veil would suggest dressing up for a High Tea or Cotillian, neither of which she seems very excited to be going to. As the father of a rather determined 16 year old daughter, I know the look!

 

As an aside, I would have powdered her down a bit, as her skin is a bit on the oily side. Still, a very pretty young woman, and a charming image. A solid 6/6 from me.

 

Glenwood

Thanks Ger & Glenwood.

 

Glenwood - I never thought about the actual meaning of the color of the veil, you are most assuredly right. White would mean something much more informal & joyous as opposed to black. I found myself much more drawn to the white veiled hat for both the 2 teens I recently photographed.

 

Casey, the other teen, loved this hat. She loved having it tied in back, where Erica loved the hat but felt a little claustrophobic with it tied in back :) As for the shine, again you are right, it was kind of hot in the studio that day.

 

Both girls are somewhat of an enigma. Casey, dark haired with blue eyes & Erica, blonde with brown eyes. I don't see this very often. I am use to blued eyed blondes & dark haired, brown eyed kids. I enjoyed the variation :)

A very creative and intriguing image. This is nicely done and well executed in monochrome.

Thanks Ken. It printed beautifully. I have it framed & ready to take to Toby's office. I printed it large, about 13x17 or so. The detail is nice this large. Thanks again for commenting, I always enjoy hearing from you. Hope all is well :)

I love the texture the veil brings to it along with the shadows. The softness and yet the contrast is perfect. I bet it is even more wonderful printed.

 

I say all the time PN does nothing compared to what something looks like printed. ~ her eyes are what make this picture!

Thanks Micki :) So true.... sometimes what looks great on the web, looks awful in print & a lot of the time the converse is true. I always say, "the proof is in the printing" :) Big smile!

Lovely shot Jayme. I like the texture throughout. It's obvious in the cap & veil, but the texture has also been held in her face

Very nice work and title, Jayme!

Thank you Ken & Ruud, I appreciate the comments :)

Great portrait, Jayme! Depth of field is perfect... Tone is beautiful...!

Thanks Brad :)

haunting portrait ! Enigmatic model, cheers Jana

Thanks Jana :)

I think you were "homaging" a face portrait by Edward Steichen from 1926. I have always admired it. As in Steichen's study, I believe this girl's expressive features, and intense eyes would have been a little bit enhanced if,like the Swanson one I am looking at in my book (done in 1926) was a sheet of tulle and not a veil per se. Her hat,a dark color turban style that Swanson wore so well, was unveiled and just framed her lovely silent star face. So maybe some more tulle experiments with your model. And whatever eye liner she has is just right on too...

 

Your approach to B and W people studies is to my eyes tasteful and interesting. I like the gallery, Jayme. gs

My wife says tulle is not right, maybe it was embroidered netting. Good luck in finding material that fits the subject. I will take a couple yards too:-)aloha,gs

I located the cited portrait of Swanson in a book I have (Masters of Starlight) and Steichen's description of the session was there. After trying a number of costume changes he got the idea to hang a piece of "black lace veil" in front of her face. He writes furhter " She recognized the idea at once. Her eyes dilated, and her look was that of a leopard lurking behind leafy shrubbery,watching her prey." I must try this myself as an experiment btw. One of these days anyway. The large book, Masters of Starlight, Photographers in Hollywood, is an old but worthy item by Fahey and Rich, 1987, Ballantine Books, in the event you want to look for it on line such as Abe's or Powell's used books.

Thank you for the information on the book. I will most certainly try to buy it. I love things like this. I love the back stories on photos :)

 

As I stood for quite a while & gazed at this magnificent portrait of Ms. Swanson, I tried to figure out exactly what type of material it was. I figured it some sort of lace. It was way too beautiful for hat lace :) I have been keeping an eye out, in my travels, for some sort of antique lace panel. Most, I have found is way too heavy. I was thinking some sort of lace curtain panel or an old lace half slip (like we women use to wear :)

 

As a young girl, I remember wearing a crinoline half slip under all my dresses. It made your dress stand out from the waist. It was similar to tulle, but if I remember correctly, it was much, much finer. I found it painful to wear, especially in the winter. As you walked, it rubbed across the fronts of your legs. After about 15 minutes, (about the time it took me to walk home from grade school), my legs were raw & bright red:) When I reached the 5th grade, I remember announcing to my mother that I was tired of this thing & refused to wear it ever again! I never wore one again :) I can only assume she realized I was getting a little too old for the cute little dresses with the organdy pinafores & appliqued something on them. She spent hours making matching dresses for both me & my younger sister :) I sure wish I had at least one of those dresses with the pinafores. They were amazingly beautiful & sweet! (Of course, I was not that sweet! I had 2 older brothers, so I was, to say the least, somewhat of a tomboy!)

 

On a funnier note: As a freshman in high school, a group of us girls got together & staged a revolt :) Girls were not allowed to wear pants to school. How silly. One day, it was freezing in our school. We all decided to go home for lunch & come back in pants. Many of us did this without our parents knowledge. However, my father had come home for lunch & saw that I was returning to school in pants. I figured he'd make me change. I was pleasantly surprised when he said very simply, "Good for you!" :) Because of the large numbers of us girls returning to school wearing pants, the principal realized he could not suspend us all. That night they called an emergency meeting of the school board & changed the dress code for girls to include pants. It was a monumental success for us girls. That was the winter of 1969 :)