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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2015, 22:03:37 »
Mother and son sharing a happy moment

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2015, 22:32:32 »
Frank Fremery: I love the emotion the children have. All I ever see anymore is kids staring at their iPhone.

Kitanikkor: In reply #2, I don't mind the woman in the background not smiling. The women in the foreground draw my eye to them. Great expressions.

Kitanikkor: I also love the joyous expressions from the second image in reply #4.

Jakov Minic: Not only does the stack of people show joy, I also see love.

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2015, 06:51:15 »
Arniban: Frankly I do not consider both a particular expression
of joy but I like both as pictures.
Thanks for the candid feedback, Frank.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2015, 23:32:51 »
Greben: I consider you BW shot posed but funny in the spirit of the thread. I'd like to see a color version without
a penalty of another three comments!!!
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2015, 23:45:12 »
Greben: I consider you BW shot posed but funny in the spirit of the thread. I'd like to see a color version without
a penalty of another three comments!!!

Frank, it wasn't posed. I was doing an infrared infant shoot and caught the moment between them. I would have liked to pose it so I could see more eye, but such is life. I am attaching a color shot, but it is IR and isn't very flattering in my opinion.

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2015, 23:47:41 »
Greg: I never shot IR. What is the basic idea of shooting portraits in IR?
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2015, 23:53:17 »
Greg: I never shot IR. What is the basic idea of shooting portraits in IR?

I like it because the skin smooths out and most blemishes disappear. Different skin color looks interesting to me as well. On many people, the veins become visible, which I also like. I am attracted to the eyes, which look different than visible light. Some call it evil looking. Tattoos typically pop better. Plus, it is still fairly unique in my corner of the world. It is my "specialty", so to speak. I get requests from a bunch of people for IR portraits. I have an IR birth and newborn shoot coming up in January.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2015, 00:41:33 »
Frank, I love the framing with the rail and the excitement! :)

Kita, wonderful interaction with the photographer.  Genuine!  The woman's eye contact really makes the shot.

Jakov, you sure do make excellent family shots with your fisheye!

Mine is an image of my lady crying in joy over seeing her sister for Christmas, who rushed to hug her.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2015, 00:55:14 »
IR does make the skin almost porcelaine-like for younger people. Thus it is a good starting point for making b/w portraits of them. The "standard" way of w/b colour IR gives the awful pale blue hues that nearly always distract from the final image. Much better to use either different filtration, or different processing, to get visually more pleasing colours. Or think b/w from the start.

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #24 on: December 29, 2015, 01:36:17 »
I agree. I would say 99.9% of my IR portraits are B&W. I always give the subject a color image or 2 so they can see that as well.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2015, 01:39:22 »
Then perhaps if they saw a colour IR photo with golden skin and auburn or chestnut hair instead of horror-movie blue they would like that version as well?

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2015, 01:43:56 »
Perhaps. My preference is black and white, whether visible light or IR. I feel color distracts from the subject. The hair in blue is always a hit. Especially when some dye their hair and add extensions. You can tell what is real and what's not.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2015, 02:06:32 »
That's a very happy image, Tristin.
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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2015, 09:28:23 »
Mine is an image of my lady crying in joy over seeing her sister for Christmas, who rushed to hug her.

Thank you for posting this Tristin and taking the range of images posted outside the more standard categories of "safe, happy, Joy".

I love the more raw emotion shown by one of the ladies here and the more muted expression by the other (I'm sure the full range of tears, smiles & laughter got displayed by each over a few minutes at this reunion!)

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Re: challenge. emotion: joy
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2015, 18:48:49 »
LoL Blackbird.....I thought such a scene full of joy too...."Tip Top" from India last September...