Posted by Mauro (Brussels, Belgium) on 21 September 2007 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.
This portrait reminds of Catalina Sandino Moreno from the movie http://www.mariafullofgrace.com/index.html
Below a great iniciative from Dimitrios, please read and... follow;)
>Dear friends in the am3 world. I would like to propose the publication of a couple of self portraits for Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of September. It can be anything you like, mirror images which is the easiest, reflection on a spoon! Ha-ha-ha, or even sketches of yourselves. It will be great to see each other and to meet the talented photographers from all around the globe. I have the greatest respect for the people that want but cannot due to cultural or religious reasons publish their image on the web. For these am3-friends that want to participate, I kindly ask them to publish instead a picture of a place in their home town that they are proud of. Please feel free to copy this text with your daily pictures so we have a great participation. I am looking forward in meeting you on 28th and 29th September, see ya soon. Kind regards Dimitrios.<
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this is a lovely portrait Mauro:)
21 Sep 2007 2:52am
@tyan: Thank you! I find colour portraits very difficult but I'm quite pleased with this one. Cheers
nice Portrait - the shallw depth of field makes it look like it was taken with a medium format camera. Brave choice to focus on the lips not the eyes!
21 Sep 2007 7:19am
@Blackdog: Thankx Mike for the input (I don't recall if I though about it at the moment ;), this was taken with a leica R5 50mm lens. I think aperture was around f2.5
nice shot
21 Sep 2007 12:30pm
@KMF: Thankx :)
This is a great portrait. I love it that you are not afraid to us DOF on her. I will take up your suggestion to do self portraits on the 28th and 29th. I am really excited about this!
21 Sep 2007 10:48pm
@Rags: Thank you Rags, it's quite an experimental portrait for me... glad you like it. Yes it will be cool If most of the community react on this, let's see
mmmh it has a nice focus an composition i would have put it in b&w though but you are the artist here
selfportrait on the 28th mmh my ugly mug on my blog man i dont know i just promoted a bit :p dont want to sacre them off :p
22 Sep 2007 4:01am
@stijn: Hi Stijn, I've seen this portrait on two different screens. On my screen the picture has loads of color tones on her face going from pink to brown at green (yes there was a green light source in the room) really well balanced. But on the computer I'm writting from now, there is none of that and the image is mutch flatter! Callibration problem I guess. I'll give it a try in B&W. Hey! it can't be THAT bad ;D
I really like this. I like the way her lips are so prominent. I'm not completely sure about the colour balance though (and I know how hard it is to get a photo to look consistent across different computer screens). On mine at least, there's a slight unnaturalness to the yellow tones in her skin.
22 Sep 2007 9:20am
@Damon Schreiber: Damon thank you for your input. I think I have to calibrate my working screen. I'll be posting tomorow the B&W version, do have a look! see you
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