> > From: Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/07/05 Wed PM 06:51:37 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO - Portrait > > I know you have worked on stuff like this before. This is pretty > good. It gives a sense of who she might be. It causes me to look at > things that could be associated with her and her thoughts. > > With it all, I find that I am wanting to have something more in this > portrait. Perhaps some sense of her being there - a shadow that I > could identify as her or something. Perhaps a hand or shoulder or > something. I think that would strengthen this even more. I hope you > understand what I am trying to say. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce
IMHO, that's what makes this (and many other photographs) good to the point of being considered art. A technically excellent picture that portrays exactly what was there is one thing. A picture that makes you think "what about....?" or "why....?" is something entirely different. > > > Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 10:13:02 AM, you wrote: > > SB> Over the past few years, ever since seeing Elliott Erwitt's famous > portrait > SB> of the cellist, Cassals, I've been making portraits of people by showing > SB> something of their environment, trying to capture a bit of who they are, > SB> their interests, personalities, without including the person in the shot. > SB> You've seen some of these photos posted here before. Here's a recent > SB> portrait of my friend Linda. > > SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/portrait.html > > > SB> Shel > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
