Hi Everyone: Anne is a colleague of mine, & I wanted to take some photos of her, and fortunately she was very enthusiastic, and even said I could come back again if I wanted a reshoot: I find her lovely, & her eyes very striking. We met up at her house, & I had about an hour 1/2 to photographer her on her deck.
But, something very interesting happened: I actually got so bored--not because of Anne; she was great and fun; she has a really great sense of humor--rather, I was so bored with myself photographing her; creatively I felt dead, and I don't know why--look how lovely she is!!! My 1st guess at an explanation is that it was all starting to feel too staged, and I think I feel I was kind of letting Anne down because of that. Also, I'm so inexperienced at reading ambient location lighting and how to best exploit it--& knowing this, I think all of a sudden I became extremely self-conscious about this, and I think I had a little inner panic. Anyway, in 30 minutes I shot 61 frames, and I then said, "Let's quit. I feel done." And I so shocked myself that I said that. We had a great girlfriend visit over iced tea afterwards & Anne liked a good many of the shots. I've picked 5 to show you all here. Anne 1, 4, & 5 are my favorites, with 5 being my number 1 fav. In Anne 4, Anne is holding up a diffuser disk to the right and out of frame (obviously ;-)). Anne 3 & 2 aren't that great because of the overwhelming highlights in the background. All shot with K10D & the DA* 50-135mm & all hand-held. I'm a little proud of that latter. I think I'm getting better at wielding that kit around: K10D, battery grip & DA* 50-135mm. Ironically, the battery grip, though it adds weight, balances the kit for some better handling. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=840824 Comment/s critique/thoughts very welcome. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
