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#1 for sure, though I like them both. #1 seems to convey more of his personality, looks
more like a spontaneous moment captured, and draws the viewer's eye from left to right, to
look in the direction that the subject is looking.
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The bat moves through it's arc.<div>
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Bravo! Beautiful work.
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I would like to add to my comment above.....This also wonderfully works with portraits of dogs! I was making all kinds of funny noises while making this portrait of my human son with my beagle daughter.
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When I'm doing a portrait, I like to converse with the subject, but I don't release the shutter
while he is speaking....that usually results in catching some odd distortion of the mouth.
Rather I look at the eyes while he is listening. Canadian photographer, Ted Grant gave this
advice: Watch the eyes while a person is *listening*. One finds excellent moments by doing
that. The life of the person is reflected in the eyes while he is listening in a way that
generally doesn't happen when he is merely posing.
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The good news is that there are many things you can do to make the girl with cat photo
more pleasing.
1.Train yourself to see the background.....This would get rid of the baby carriage growing
out of her head.
2. Generally, place light source so as to get some modeling of the facial features.
(Somewhat to the side, rather than straight at subject).
3.Train yourself to see, and question, what is included in the frame...e.g.: Do you really
want to cut off the feet?
With just these three basics, you can dramatically improve the image.
Look at lots of great photo portraiture. (With no disrespect to Edsel Adams, I don't find
the jzportraits link to be at all inspiring.) Look at Karsh, Steichen, Steigletz,
Liebovitz...There is lots of inpiration and education to be gotten by carefully examining
the finest examples.
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In a world in which the objects around us have more and more features and less and less
quality, the feel of the Leica alone is reassuring. If someone purchases a Leica for this
reassurance, and not for any practical photographic use, it's fine with me. Live and let live.
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I enjoyed viewing these. Thanks for posting them. My favorite 2 images are: the football fan
and the Chester Cathedral interior. The inside of Chester Cathedral looks like a great place
for dramatic b&w images. Did you take more at this location?
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Matt,
That is a wonderful portrait of your lovely wife. The cheekbones and lips are beautifully
sculpted by the light. You captured the best kind of portrait expression that invites the
viewer to imagine the thoughts and feelings behind the subject's eyes. I have a feeling that
the composition would be slightly improved by cropping off a little bit of the top and left
side, so as to move the head a little"northeast" within the frame. What do you think?
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M6TTL, Tri-X forgot which lens.<div></div>
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Vic,
Tom Higgins' Nov 4 09:48 photo violates both Cassidy's commandment #8 and also the
following, better known commandment, on either one or two counts (depending on how the
word "ass" is interpreted).....yet it is a wonderful photo!
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet they neighbour's wife, nor
his manservant nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbour's.
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Pentax Spotmatic II.<div></div>
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Pentax Spotmatic II<div></div>
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Thanks Ray. What happened was: I walked all the way down to the front row, right by the
field. The Turner Field official said to me: "You can't stand there, you'll have sit down." I
looked to my right, saw an empty seat, sat down and was able to snap away for a good long
time!
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Minolta SRT-102, 200mm Rokkor, Fujichrome Sensia 400.<div></div>
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My style: Beagle Supermodels.<div></div>
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Antique store. M6TTL, 50mm Summilux, Tri-X, Rodinal.<div></div>
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Ilford Pan F+, M6TTL, 50mm Summilux.<div></div>
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The link didn't work, but I got to see the photos through J. Sevigny's link. I enjoyed them
very much. I'm sure that the more you do it the better it gets, but there is already much to
enjoy. You've caught some very interesting facial expressions. I especially like the ones of
the little boy. There is a characterful self confidence in his smile.
Casual Portrait Critique
in Portraits & Fashion
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My two favorites are:
The second one in the top row--
Here I especially like the composition, the spontaneous, unposed quality and the feeling of
movement.
The last one in the bottom row--
In this one the light across the face is perfect! With a subject like that, the lighting can
very easily have too abrupt a contrast on the two halves of the face.--that is to say that
lighting which is perfectly fine for another subject might look wrong on a portrait of a little
girl. Therefore I especially appreciate that in this photo there is just the right gradation of
light across the face so as to give it a three dimensional quality, yet the gradation is gentle
enough to be appropriate to the subject.