very interesting. I hadnt heard of the portrait or the photographer (blissful ignorance!) - thanks for sharing that info. went on google and found it. The website also mentions this 'rule' which I hadnt heard either "Always include hands, because they are more expressive than the face..."
thats a neat modification of Elliot's style. did you modify the items on the table - to represent more/less of Linda? regards Sridhar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:43 PM Subject: PESO - Portrait > Over the past few years, ever since seeing Elliott Erwitt's famous > portrait > of the cellist, Cassals, I've been making portraits of people by showing > something of their environment, trying to capture a bit of who they are, > their interests, personalities, without including the person in the shot. > You've seen some of these photos posted here before. Here's a recent > portrait of my friend Linda. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/portrait.html > > > Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
