Yeah, there's something in that, John. I generally try to melt away into the background and get candids at family functions, but that's really hard when I'm expected to participate, like at my own birthday. :-) I can get away with it at my nieces' joint birthday though, and I've managed to grab some reasonably objective images. But it's a toughie and I often just punt and mumble some lame excuse like it's too dark for my Pentax and I should have bought a Canikon.
Thanks, John! On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:21 PM, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice pic, Bruce - and you're not alone! I find taking good portraits of > close family > members really hard: maybe it's because we don't really look at them with the > same > dispassionate eye we do with a less intimate subject? > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce > Walker > Sent: Wednesday, 14 December 2011 2:47 AM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: PESO Louise > > With this portrait I've finally achieved a very elusive goal: that of getting > a shot of my > partner (for some 32 years) of which we're both happy. > > http://goo.gl/skjul > > But I wonder: how many of you can take simply terrific shots of other people > but are > reduced to weeping wrecks attempting to capture decent looking images of > their better > halves? Or is it just me? :-) > > K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 36mm, f/5.6, ISO200. > AF540FGZ in 40" convertible umbrella, slightly above, camera right. > Triggered optically from K20D. > PP: LR3.5, PS CS5 > > I must also acknowledge the assistance of Tessa, our German Short-Haired > Pointer, who > pulled goofy faces behind me which got the best expressions from the subject. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
