Critique #9 Theme *Portrait* (5/1)

[AOI Photo]

My appreciation to everyone on their comments.
The image is indeed made from two negatives. Stacked in the carrier, and dodged and burned like crazy.
The feedback on the scream being unrealistic is appreciated. When I decided to try this, I grabbed the most convienenet person (my younger sister who could be at the house in five minutes) perhaps I should try it again with a model. (also I'd make sure she wasn't dressed in whit, what a nightmare that was in printing)

Thanks.

 

[ferider]

Sorry for being a bit late. Here are my thoughts:

BudGreen:

Hmm, I like the picture, but wasn't really successful in analyzing
why. Maybe because I don't haver enough formal background. I bounce back
between the boy and the game, I think the composition, the DOF and the
colors lead me to this. I wonder who the skinny boy is who is playing
the game with me, very concentrated, so I have time to observe him. I do like
the slightly assymetric crop as is.

Rich:

Interesting. High quality (medium format?) family portrait. The family
doesn't seem to happy to be photographed. I like the different expressions
on the three faces. Boy is curious, dad obviously gave the OK, the mom
is stand-back'ish almost making fun of the photographer. Then I get
drawn into the tatoos, lots of details, I wish I could read what's on
her chest ...

Francesco:

nice portrait of a child with her favorite toy. I like the tones and contrast and the DOF.
It is a bit too grainy though, so much that I wonder if it was an extreme crop of a
bigger composition. I am sure the girl will looking at the photo in an album when
she is older !

AOI Photo:

Very impressive. I have never seen this done before. I will remember
this. I wonder if this is part of a series that could tell me more about
the background ? Or is it just a single statement ?

Thanks all, feel the critique threads have made RFF even more fun than before.

Roland.

 

[Rich Silfver]

Rich:

Interesting. High quality (medium format?) family portrait. The family
doesn't seem to happy to be photographed. I like the different expressions
on the three faces. Boy is curious, dad obviously gave the OK, the mom
is stand-back'ish almost making fun of the photographer. Then I get
drawn into the tatoos, lots of details, I wish I could read what's on
her chest ...

Thanks. Nope, just your regular 35mm film.
The 'story' behind the photo is as follows:
I was walking through the arcade on the boardwalk down in Santa Cruz when I spotted the couple and their son. I asked them if they'd mind me taking a photo of them and they said sure. We stepped outside. The sun was really harsh and I snapped two shots. This is one of them. 🙂

 

[AOI Photo]

Sorry for being a bit late. Here are my thoughts:


AOI Photo:

Very impressive. I have never seen this done before. I will remember
this. I wonder if this is part of a series that could tell me more about
the background ? Or is it just a single statement ?

Thanks all, feel the critique threads have made RFF even more fun than before.

Roland.

Single statement. I hope to do a series, this was just an idea that occoured at about 8:00 at night. Called my sister to see if she owuld ocme over, put her against a black backdrop and shot. The next day I took some shots of brick walls, then the printing fun started. The interestignt hing is when I came to do a digital version I tried scannig the negatives sperately and comining in photoshop. Didn't work at all. I had to sandwich the negatives into the carrier, scan it that way, and then do pretty mych the same dodging and burning I did in the labe, but in Photoshop. Now that I've learned how to do this, I may truy a series.