Ed's Farewell

bdcolen

I don't think any of these really need a back story, but for those of you who are lost without one...I'm in the D.C. area this weekend for a memorial gathering yesterday in honor of my wife's late Uncle Ed, who died last winter at 92. His widow, Molly, was there, as were various branches of the family, and friends, from the ages of about three or four to 90. While everyone else watched a really wonderful slide show one of Ed's daughter's had put together, schmoozed, and ate, I shot. The first image was shot in the dark, by the light of the slide screen, hand held, of Molly watching the slide show.













By the way, if anyone is still interested at the last minute, there is space in next week's workshop. Email me asap if you want information.

adbsgicom

Nice moments and hopefully many fond memories. The first one is quite amazing. I love the picture of the boy watching his reflection in the steamer lid. The expression on the child's face in the last one feels very non-sequitor with the mother's expression. He looks shocked/horrified at what he's just learned....

torags

Nice shooting BD...

A clinic in capturing expressions.....

bdcolen

adbsgicom wrote:

Nice moments and hopefully many fond memories. The first one is quite amazing. I love the picture of the boy watching his reflection in the steamer lid. The expression on the child's face in the last one feels very non-sequitor with the mother's expression. He looks shocked/horrified at what he's just learned....

Thanks! He was either horrified or mock horrified - I think his uncle was making very weird faces at him.

divamum

What comes over through these to me is a celebration of LIFE; I hope that was indeed the reality of the event as strongly as it comes over in the photos.

(And you have NO IDEA how much I wish I could go to Boston and take the seminar! Alas, logistics and bank accounts both conspire against me on that score... but know how much I'd love to explore this stuff in person instead of online! )

bdcolen

divamum wrote:

What comes over through these to me is a celebration of LIFE; I hope that was indeed the reality of the event as strongly as it comes over in the photos.

(And you have NO IDEA how much I wish I could go to Boston and take the seminar! Alas, logistics and bank accounts both conspire against me on that score... but know how much I'd love to explore this stuff in person instead of online! )

Thanks so much, D.M. ;-)

I am thinking of putting together a three-day workshop over Columbus Day weekend, if the interest is there.

adbsgicom

bdcolen wrote:

I am thinking of putting together a three-day workshop over Columbus Day weekend, if the interest is there.

Where would 'there' be?

ian408

I love the expression in the second and last.

It does look more like a celebration of life to me. People look engaged and as if they're enjoying conversation.

bdcolen

adbsgicom wrote:

Where would 'there' be?

There would be here, in tems of interest, but there would be Boston in terms of location.:-)

bdcolen

ian408 wrote:

I love the expression in the second and last.

It does look more like a celebration of life to me. People look engaged and as if they're enjoying conversation.

Indeed - very much a celebration of a life. BTW - If anyone is interested in seeing what an entire shoot like this looks like - crap and all - go to my website, click on A Day In Our Life, then Farewell, Ed - the password is "molly." And remember, there hasn't been any Photoshopping of the images - just basic color correction work in Lightroom - which in some cases includes use of my bw plug-in - and some cropping. Otherwise, it's WYSIWYG time. (Oh, and the dog stuff at the end is just some quick shots of my brother-in-law's dog who is within weeks of the end - snapshots only.)

FINAL NOTE: I have made it possible for people visiting the Farewell Ed gallery to pull down full-size images, because I expect family and friends of family to be visiting - and I have price the prints at cost. I would ask that Dgriner's visiting NOT pull down any images or take prints at cost - honor system?

rutt

Very nice, especially #1.

I'm sure you don't actually need the honor system to allow your friends and family to get better prices on prints and download original sized files. One crude but effective approach is just to make two galleries, one for your friends and family and the other for dgrin. Then you can price and set the limits for download sizes accordingly, no problems. Maybe there is another way to do this, but simple is good.

bdcolen

rutt wrote:

Very nice, especially #1.

I'm sure you don't actually need the honor system to allow your friends and family to get better prices on prints and download original sized files. One crude but effective approach is just to make two galleries, one for your friends and family and the other for dgrin. Then you can price and set the limits for download sizes accordingly, no problems. Maybe there is another way to do this, but simple is good.

Thanks, Rutt. And true, but I really didn't want to go through the bother of setting up two galleries. I will change the password in the near future and will only give it to family to distribute, and will set up a much smaller gallery of what I think are the best images.