Exhibit Portrait shots

[Greg Beetham]

I’ve been watching on and off and appreciated the differing approaches and styles.

The A100 shot is good Doc it’s hard to see how any more modern camera could improve on it by much.

Watch out Birma, Tilly is a serious, no escape. Good one the STF does the job of subject isolation that’s for sure.

Doc that last one could qualify for the ‘Evidence of the photographer’ thread as well I reckon.

I suppose taking a few photos of the grandnephews getting some face painting at a 1st birthday party for one of them is kind of like a portrait, or is it a candid…? That’s how much I know about portrait photography, I tend to like candid type shots with kids anyway as they can be more natural sometimes, if you can jag the moment that is, and that’s the hard part which I don’t always succeed at.
Greg

A700 KM24-105

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[Birma]

Three very nice candid portraits I'd say Greg . (I've no idea if they are separate genres or all part of the shame thing either!). The face painter is no slouch either. That would pass for top quality work in these parts anyway. Great looks of concentration on all three kids' faces.

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Birma I’ll elaborate a little so you can understand what was going on, the artist was very good under pressure painting squirmy kids (but they wanted their face painted just the same, they chose a scheme from a bunch of photo books she had) but it was difficult to get photos (I couldn’t get quite a few) she was mostly in the way all the time leaning over reaching for paints or brushes and when finishing a painting she leant over again blocking the view to get the mirror to show the subject what it looked like, I had only one narrow angle to shoot, between obstacles.

I know a few of the children there were family, I sometimes forget their names or which name belongs to which.
Some of the children belonged to friends. (I know for sure the peacock one is ours but I don’t know offhand who the other two belong too)
My brother had two girls and a boy and they are all grown up and have kids now, the youngest was the one year old, the one whose birthday it was. The party was at my brother’s son’s beach house.
Greg

ps The birthday girl (the one on the left) and birthday cake. (also shadows from people crowding around. I should have dropped the ambient exposure a stop and left the flash on full but those are the perils of taking snapshots of moments in time and in variable circumstances)
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[sury]

Greg,
Those kids photos are fantastic. The last one is what I call the money shot.
It captures the moment and technique(s) be damned (forgive my language), the
memory is forever. I was feeling the warmth of the affection in that photo and
as far as I am concerned, that sums it all.

Sury

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks for that Sury, sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t.
Greg

[Dr. Harout]

Greg, you're right for the "Evidence of the photographer".
Very cute shots with the children.

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Doc, I won’t tell anyone about the other thing, mums the word.
Greg

[Cogito]

My wife fell in love with a genius, but still married me

[Dr. Harout]

Nikon FE2 + 50/1.8
Beirut

January 1990 by Dr. Harout, on Flickr

[sury]

Tony,
That was a good one. As for marital choices, I am leaving it alone.
Doc, that was a clean shot of a clean cut gentleman. Any significance
attached to the subject? Just curious.

Sury

[Birma]

Sitting on Einstein's lap is a great composition Tony

Another nice portrait Doc. Apologies if I have asked this before, but was that taken on B&W film or converted after you scanned it?

[Cogito]

Wow! There's a lot of good portraiture here, both B&W and colour. My complements to all participants.

[Dr. Harout]

Sury, his my cousin.
Andy, B&W film, shot with Nikon FE2 and 50/1.8, scanned with Microtek Filmscan.

[sury]

Doc,
Your cousin? But he is so handsome.
I guess your recent trip was to visit the relatives.

Sury

[bakubo]

Lots of great photos posted!

Man in Marrakech, Morocco in 2006 (KM 7D):