POTW 09.03.10

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POTW 09.03.10

Postby Geoff on Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:40 am

Apologies for the lateness of this POTW coming. I've been somewhat absent from the forum of late for personal reasons. I hope you're all well though!

I have spent about an hour sifting through all the wonderful images and I kept coming back to this thread by Alex and his kids. Some may say I have a bias towards family/child portraiture, that may be,or maybe I just am looking forward to the day I have my own kid/s to take a zillion photos of. I think the 3rd image in this series is delightful. The eye contact, the light (and catchlight) as well as the B&W conversion all work for me.

If I were being super critical, in a perfect world I would love to have seen the little one's right arm/hand in full..but working with kids you sometimes just have to get what you shoot, or shoot what you get? Here's the original image:

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Congratulations Alex! Well done.
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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby Mr Darcy on Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:44 am

Geoff wrote:Congratulations Alex! Well done.

I second that. Brilliant capture.
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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby Alex on Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:02 pm

This was an unexpected surprise when I logged in this morning! Thank you very much Geoff and DSLRforum. It's a great honour to receive POW.

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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby Glen on Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:12 pm

Congratulations Alex, a very appealing portrait
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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby colin_12 on Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:12 pm

Way to go Alex.
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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby zafra52 on Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:14 pm

What a beautiful portrait! I bet the parents
will be pleased with this photograph. Congratulations.
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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby Alex on Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:34 am

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone.

Zafra, LOL, the babies are mine :-)

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Re: POTW 09.03.10

Postby Big V on Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:43 pm

I like the fact the hand is missing - kind of get the impression of dipping into the cookie jar!!!
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