Young Artists

I have a project working to take pictures of young artists in the neighborhood. I give them a free photograph to pose for me. Keep in mind that I do not have a studio so the images were made with natural light and bounce flash in my home. Here are the first two.

Liza - flute



Liza #2 - flute



Chris - Violin

 

Excellent comments Gale, I appreciate that. You are right about the hand and I should have burned it in some. I will do so in the final print. As for blowing into the flute looking phoney, this could only be because you have never played the flute. She is an outstanding flutist and was actually playing at the time I took the image. I used controlled DOF to focus the attention on the lips and eyes of the flutist and let the opposite end of the flute and hands go out of focus to de-emphasise them. For the second image close cropping like that is becoming more the norm rather than the exception for many of today's images. I'm glad you like it.

The young man's image I am also not too thrilled with it. I was working within the constraints of my home which does not have hardly any blank walls and so I was trying to capture the OOF image behind the boy as sort of a backdrop. Didn't work too well did it? I have some other views but I like them even less. Would be nice to have a studio and some backdrops. Perhaps I will have to resort to outside shots.

In any even thanks for your honest comments.

 

Thanks Frank but you already have many skills and your bird images are getting better and better as the days go on. I appreciate your kind words.