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This is a shot of my oldest daughter. I posted a different B & W version over at the B & W forum awhile ago but I just did some reworking to the background, minor tweaks, etc. to the color version and thought I'd share that one here - along with a new B & W version. I hope you enjoy seeing them.
For those of you who don't know, the title comes from a very famous short piece by Debussy.
Great title and wonderful photo Endre. The B&W is excellent but the color version is simply stunning. My eye goes from hair to eyes to lips. A timeless beauty. Both your daughter and the portrait.
Thanks for sharing.
Greg
Thank you so much, Greg! I always appreciate your very kind comments when I post photos. I ma delighted that you like these so much!
All best wishes,
Endre
gregfixit wrote:
Great title and wonderful photo Endre. The B&W is excellent but the color version is simply stunning. My eye goes from hair to eyes to lips. A timeless beauty. Both your daughter and the portrait.
Thanks for sharing.
Greg
This is a nicely executed portrait. Really well done.
My only constructive nit is that for me, the crop feels a little top-heavy. I can see why you don't want to crop the hair, but I feel like a little more room at the bottom would balance it a bit more. Right now, she's kind of bullseyed. Its subtle, and not a huge thing....
These were shot with my Canon 5D III and my 85 1.8 lens. Lighting is an open door and a reflector. She was also getting a little windblown by a big fan.
All the best,
Endre
Michaelparris wrote:
great work.....What you working with equipment wise.
Thanks, Evan! I appreciate your thoughtful comments and am so glad you like this photo.
Yeah - I am well aware of how she wound up in the center. I tend to impose on myself the discipline of using a standard crop ratio (11 x 14), especially for portraits, so cropping becomes something of a balancing act. I played with the cropping of this one a lot, picking between various trade-offs, before deciding on this.
All the best,
Endre
Evan Baines wrote:
This is a nicely executed portrait. Really well done.
My only constructive nit is that for me, the crop feels a little top-heavy. I can see why you don't want to crop the hair, but I feel like a little more room at the bottom would balance it a bit more. Right now, she's kind of bullseyed. Its subtle, and not a huge thing....
She is exquisite and the portrait - simply so well done.
For what it's worth, I discovered this via the thumbnail images at the top of the page, not by perusing the People board and my "expectation" based on the thumbnail was that the general periphery would have the soft blur her hair presents on the viewer's right.
Perhaps my thinking is heavily skewed by that initial guess at what I was clicking on so take this with a grain of salt, but the overall feel of the image and her gaze is so dreamlike I'd be tempted to soften her hair, viewer-left, similar to what we see at right.
I bounce back and forth on that sort of processing but for me there's a craving to see her face cradled in an ever so slight blur and softness.
Regardless, a very special portrait of a lovely girl.
Mildly put and even giving all benefit of the doubt, I could spend a lot of time trying to figure out how those aren't peculiar questions, particularly the second.
First, she doesn't look as old as she is. I was guessing 17-18. She could model. Her hair is lovely. She looks younger but presents herself as having modeled a long time.
Second, the OP mentioned she was the oldest. That implies more than one. He has a built in supply of subjects to shoot. Not all are willing to have their photo taken time and again. But having multiples gives a good selection to convince to sit and be photographed.
I am not sure where your questions were going.
The OP is lucky to still have his children around. My daughter lives 400 miles away and my son lives 1800 miles away. They are both professional engineers and married.
I wish I had digital cameras when they were home. I would have a lot more photos of them. As it is my ex-wife has all the photos and negatives from when they were younger and at home.
nolaguy wrote:
Mildly put and even giving all benefit of the doubt, I could spend a lot of time trying to figure out how those aren't peculiar questions, particularly the second.
