| Author | Thread |
|
|
07/10/2004 06:40:55 PM · #1 |
opinions anyone? |
|
|
|
07/10/2004 06:53:38 PM · #2 |
Bravo!
Well-suited for a B & W. Framing works for this too.
|
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:04:59 PM · #3 |
Beautiful shot...very real, earthy, love the B&W.
|
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:08:09 PM · #4 |
| Great capture. But then again many of the portraits in your portfolia are great!! The photo makes me want to know more about her.... |
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:09:27 PM · #5 |
| Good job! I like the composition and it looks very rich. What sort of post-shot editing did you do to achieve such a beautifully contrasty image? |
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:19:19 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by digistoune:
What sort of post-shot editing did you do to achieve such a beautifully contrasty image? |
Not much, the usual, levels, curves, desat, unsharp mask, channel mixer and an easy sepia hue/saturation. The best for good b/w contrasts, is always the channel mixer set on monochrome. |
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:27:19 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by frumoaznicul:
Originally posted by digistoune:
What sort of post-shot editing did you do to achieve such a beautifully contrasty image? |
Not much, the usual, levels, curves, desat, unsharp mask, channel mixer and an easy sepia hue/saturation. The best for good b/w contrasts, is always the channel mixer set on monochrome. |
Nice work! |
|
|
|
07/10/2004 07:33:05 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by digistoune:
Originally posted by frumoaznicul:
Originally posted by digistoune:
What sort of post-shot editing did you do to achieve such a beautifully contrasty image? |
Not much, the usual, levels, curves, desat, unsharp mask, channel mixer and an easy sepia hue/saturation. The best for good b/w contrasts, is always the channel mixer set on monochrome. |
Nice work! |
Thank you, thank you all! |
|
|
|
07/11/2004 01:08:37 AM · #9 |
It is a wonderful photo, although I'm more intersted in how you approach your subjects to take their photo..
Was this a candid? It looks like she knew you were there, and I suspect you were not more than six feet away when you took the photo?
I ask this as I've just spent some time taking photos of a couple of local buildings, and while I was outside a local church a chap came up to be and we had a converstation about the church, the weather, general chit-chat. He was probably 70 or so, and had a very time worn look. I would have loved to have a go at taking his photo, but how to ask a total stranger for their photo?
Portraiture is a foreign art to me, and I am jealous (in a good way! :-) ) of people who can take 'street' portraits well. |
|
|
|
07/11/2004 07:52:43 AM · #10 |
Yes this is candid, this doesn't mean the old woman did not see me, she did, and she smiled to me, but I don't know her, I don't know who she is, she was there in a market place selling her growth, I'm not sure, I think potatoes. Old people have one of the lowest condition in europe where I live many of them no matter how old they are are forced to work or starv to death, nobody seems to care about them. That's one of the reason I like this one so much because a smile on theyr face is something verry rare. Take a look on my other candids with all pictures where all you can see in theyrexpression is frustration and exhaust.
The way I aproach my candids is a normal way, I take out my camera and start shooting. I don't like to chat before I shoot because then even i they agree, they will start posing and I belive shots won't be so natural. Sometimes I chat after, sometimes I don't. I whas shy before too, but everytime I feel shy I think of those press photographers in war zones with bullets flying over theyr heads, and I say to myself, well if some people have that courage this should be a piece of cake. Also I aproach them differently, when I feel they can become aggresive or something like that, I swich on lcd view, and pretend I'm fixing the settings on my camera or something like that, another times if there is someone with me I ask them to stand in a way so I can hide behind them, it depends, every situation is different. Another thing, is that I noticed is that 90% of the people like to be photographed.
Hope this helps, thanks for liking my work, cheers! |
|
|
|
07/11/2004 11:20:18 AM · #11 |
Simply stunning. Wonderful shot! You picked a great subject!
|
|
|
|
07/11/2004 11:31:56 AM · #12 |
| excellent. left you a comment! |
|
|
|
07/11/2004 12:40:42 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by frumoaznicul:
Yes this is candid, this doesn't mean the old woman did not see me, she did, and she smiled to me, but I don't know her, I don't know who she is, she was there in a market place selling her growth, I'm not sure, I think potatoes. Old people have one of the lowest condition in europe where I live many of them no matter how old they are are forced to work or starv to death, nobody seems to care about them. That's one of the reason I like this one so much because a smile on theyr face is something verry rare. Take a look on my other candids with all pictures where all you can see in theyrexpression is frustration and exhaust.
The way I aproach my candids is a normal way, I take out my camera and start shooting. I don't like to chat before I shoot because then even i they agree, they will start posing and I belive shots won't be so natural. Sometimes I chat after, sometimes I don't. I whas shy before too, but everytime I feel shy I think of those press photographers in war zones with bullets flying over theyr heads, and I say to myself, well if some people have that courage this should be a piece of cake. Also I aproach them differently, when I feel they can become aggresive or something like that, I swich on lcd view, and pretend I'm fixing the settings on my camera or something like that, another times if there is someone with me I ask them to stand in a way so I can hide behind them, it depends, every situation is different. Another thing, is that I noticed is that 90% of the people like to be photographed.
Hope this helps, thanks for liking my work, cheers! |
Do you ever ask for a model release? |
|
|
|
07/11/2004 05:49:37 PM · #14 |
| I'm not sure I understand the "model release" part of the question, but if what you are asking is if I ever ask them to model for me, well no. For now I really enjoy studiing people behaving naturaly in theyr own habitat :)) and another reason is people are not so rich around here so I'm 100% sure that if I'd ask bthe first question would be "how much do you pay?" and I'm not in the position to pay anyone. I did ask a girl once well actualy I asked someone who knew her to ask her and her question whas "do I pay?" so for now I stick with the candids, and whenever I need models Ill stick with family and friends :)) |
|
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 09/10/2025 07:16:44 PM EDT.
