monika roemer

I like the colours and the atmosphere. Well done!

Well done, Alain. I like a lot the 'atmosphere'. Best, Monika

Thanks a lot for your feedback - and for following my work.

Les, I took the pic at the day of her Baccalaureate -

she was not only very happy but she wore also a white flower in her

carefully done coiffure ;-) Warm regards, Monika

Hi Mark,

thanks for your comment. She is a lovely, natural and straight forward girl - this helped a lot ;-) Best, Monika

Hi Jean Louis and J. - thanks for taking time and commenting on this pic.

When taking portraits I am only working with available light and I try to avoid "posing". I used a 50mm 1.4 lens. Best, Monika

John, thanks a lot for your comment. This young girl (14) is not used to the camera and I didn't know her before. But we managed to 'connect' and she  giftrd me with her confidence and openess.

Indeed I'm more interested in the 'expression' of the people I photograph than in 'technique'. I found a quote of Andreas Feiniger which reassumes pretty good what I want to achieve:

Die Tatsache, dass eine - im konventionellen Sinn - technisch fehlerhafte Fotografie gefühlsmäßig wirksamer sein kann als ein technisch fehlerloses Bild, wird auf jene schockierend wirken, die naiv genug sind zu glauben,
dass technische Perfektion den wahren Wert eines Fotos ausmacht.

The fact that a - in a conventional sense - technically "bad" photograph
can be emotionally more effective than a technically flawless image
may appear shocking to those who are naive enough to believe that technical perfection is the true value of a photo.

Andreas Feininger