vic vic Posted August 9, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 9, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) my sister mado, her husbend yuda and her frierd andrea mp, 28, apx100 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuny Posted August 9, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 9, 2006 Victor - These are rather charming portraits of gentle looking, attractive people. I like the "poses" and tones, and generally like the composition. With the first (one of my two favorites) it might be stronger to crop most of the empty space to the left of the couple. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share #3 Posted August 9, 2006 thanks alot struart for your words. no, first of all i dont crop photos, not b/w ones. but also, it gives some space to the eyes and gives a great sense of space as well to the scene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semrich Posted August 9, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 9, 2006 Victor, A very nice set of family and friends. I like the first one the most, a portrait, but not posed with a very natural atmosphere of casual fun and enjoyment. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share #5 Posted August 9, 2006 thansk richardd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted August 9, 2006 Share #6 Posted August 9, 2006 Victor, lovely rich tones in these portraits; very sensitive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted August 9, 2006 Share #7 Posted August 9, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Charming insight into the happy lives of your family. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb Posted August 9, 2006 Share #8 Posted August 9, 2006 Nice trip to Bokeh-ville. Thanks for posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share #9 Posted August 9, 2006 thanks john, david and peter :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted August 9, 2006 Share #10 Posted August 9, 2006 Very lovely shots, well composed and the tones are excellent. I especially enjoyed the first shot. I am sure your family is very happy with these pictures. Peace, Wilfredo+ Benitez-Rivera Photography Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_drabek Posted August 10, 2006 Share #11 Posted August 10, 2006 Nice sense of personality and atmosphere in the shots. They're very contrasty, but it gives the images a nice quality that works. A kind of storybook feel. DD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodaktrix Posted August 10, 2006 Share #12 Posted August 10, 2006 I like that very intimate atmosphere of the set. Number 1 and 4 are my favorites. Best regards Oliver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share #13 Posted August 10, 2006 wilfredo, daniel and oliver.. thanks alot for your words :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davephoto Posted August 10, 2006 Share #14 Posted August 10, 2006 i think the series of the first two photos tell a story of their own -- and i think that's an element which makes for good people shots. your sister's friend's raised eyebrow adds an element of deviousness to him! perhaps that's why your sister bolted from him in the second? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share #15 Posted August 10, 2006 thanks dave :-) no dave, there r no implied stories there :-)) just some playful moments:-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted August 10, 2006 Share #16 Posted August 10, 2006 In fact, these are wonderful examples of how to break the rules. The environment is being depicted and cropping would have destroyed the interaction between subject and their joyful outdoors. In fact, there are no rules to photography. Vic Vic shot beautifully and showed the subjects being happy. That's all one needs to have. Also I like the couple quite a bit. They are definitely in so much love and romance. A good contrast to all that turmoil happening today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share #17 Posted August 10, 2006 hi albert about the rules.. well, i agree with u so much that i would even say that i have not broke any rules:-)))))) the rules are: great knowledgein art, imagination, sensitivity and control - conciousness in the rite time and place that is translated into "balance" in the photograph!!! and i dont mean only to this or that photo, i mean to photography making as i see it, at least - as i expect from myslef, and as i respect other photographers. to continue this philosophical issue about meta-photography:-))) i think people who use especially leica rangefinder and big view cameras, should not have rules as such. those tools are such great that the creative photograph should go free when working. equiped with the mentioned above "knowledge, imagination, sensitivity etc" one can develop his own taeste, attitude etc... well, im not really against rules and such things, of course i use paradigms and develop them myself with time. but rules themselves are great for nromal things, ruitines, standard. creative approach should look beyound those "rules". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted August 10, 2006 Share #18 Posted August 10, 2006 These are all very nice images, but I am particularly drawn to the first one because of the interaction between the two people, which adds interest and emotion. The tonal range and contrast are very well handled in all of the images. I would say I disagree with something you said, however. You made the statement that you don't crop photos. I would say you (and all of us) make several crops to photos. The first crop is made when we visualize a photo before picking up the camera. We know what we want to include and what we want to leave out. Next we crop by the focal length of the lens we choose. Finally, we crop with our body position in relation to the subject. To some extent, we even crop by our choice of aperture, which can either shows a lot of detail throughout the image or a lot of blur to isolate the subject. All photographs are essentially a series of crops. Anyway, very excellent work here, cropped or not! Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share #19 Posted August 11, 2006 brent, first of all thanks for your words. about the cropping isssue... i defenetly agree with what u say. call it frame selection, croping or whatever - it is true, "name" is more a matter of semantics rather essense of the thing. what i mean wen i say that i dont crop (at least in my personal works and especially b/w) is that i stay with the image that i have captured in the "moment of essense". im not sure if "not croping afterwards" is a principle for me or not. most important for me, is that, if some photograph has some value for me, it just "feels" correct as photographed - as it appears on the negative on light table. when printed or scanned, somehow, i feel that it perfectly represents that "moment of essense" when the photograph was done. it is as if u recall your state of conciousness from that "moment". state of conciousness, i mean the overall "synergetic" set of visual (what u see), sensetive (feel), discursive (think) and intuitions. of course, in practice some more aspect involved here, like good reaction in real time and the ability to make the "frame selection" or call it "crop" the way it represent either imagination or "perception of the scene". the point here is that u trust your practical photographic abilities to capture "what u want". and then u dont make additional input regarding the "frame selection". that way, i feel that i stay very close to the scene or object, and i feel i give a "purer" representation of either the scene or/and to "my own mind". of course, it was not alwys like that. it took time and alot of practice and learning curve. actually, this issue is very complex, since additionally, we have other aspects, like "style", artistic implimintation etc. so, all the things are a kind of mixed together. and in some balance they can create some eye catching photos, that will put the viewer in some emotional invlovement and awakeness. from here we can ask: so what is the "art" part here, or, how such evident artistic implimintation works together with the "moment of essense" representation mentioned above? for this question, i think that artistic work in itslef and artist himself goes somewhere between the "realtime perception of reality" (especially in photography) and between the inherent and developed sense to aesthetics (and when i say aesthetics, i dont mean beautiful in clssic meaning of it). between those two, the artist and the art work for the viewer creates a kind of "isoteric world" (a kind of buble where things happen) that reflects something from the artists mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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