A Piece of Her Mind

lizzard_nyc

Went to brunch today with some of my immediate family--What started off pleasantly enough quickly took a turn as my brother got to listen to my mother give him a piece of her mind.


Allright I'm listening



Not happy about it, but still listening



Double teamed



Listening




On the defensive



This conversation is finished



But it ended on a positive note.

adbsgicom

Nice story board of the event.
Love the kids and how they are completely unphased.

stirlsilver

adbsgicom wrote:

Nice story board of the event.
Love the kids and how they are completely unphased.

Completely agree. Thanks for sharing that!

rutt

This is a strong series and would have worked at least as well without the captions. The first tells volumes all by itself.

B.D. has an exercise I hope he will do here. It was an assignment for his class last spring that ended up getting dropped for lack of time. There was a very evocative picture with the title "Madison". We were supposed to write the first page of a short story based on the picture. It took me a little while and more than one view, but I knew just what the story was I wanted to tell.

I think the point of the exercise was how many different stories could fit the picture. But I'm not sure. Maybe the point was how well the picture told a single story.

Anyway, your first shot could have served as the focus of just such an exercise. Nice.

bike21

Nicely done!

black mamba

Good series. I definitely picked up on the prevalent mood. Poor boy was surrounded....but he looked like he could handle it.

Tom

bdcolen

lizzard_nyc wrote:

Went to brunch today with some of my immediate family--What started off pleasantly enough quickly took a turn as my brother got to listen to my mother give him a piece of her mind.

VERY nicely done - Especially the first three shots Now, get rid of the cutesy captions - let the photos tell a story - and chuck the last shot, which doesn't even look as though the same photographer shot it.

lizzard_nyc

bdcolen wrote:

VERY nicely done - Especially the first three shots Now, get rid of the cutesy captions - let the photos tell a story - and chuck the last shot, which doesn't even look as though the same photographer shot it.

B.D.
--you are such a hardass --
And I knew not to put the captions as I did them--Left over from my scrapbooking days years ago I guess. I'm coming along.

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Rutt
I'm glad you liked them--that first shot is what got me started thinking about posting it as a series. Again I knew I shouldn't have put the titles down.

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Bike21, Stirlsilver
Thank you--glad you liked it.
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Andrew--
The shot with the kids oblivious to the events is my favorite shot.

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EDIT--Tom,
Missed your post earlier--Yes he handled it:)--he has that gift unlike the females in our family. He just rolled with it--I was just glad to be observing and snapping away. Glad it did not involve me this time:)

seastack

love the first three but the first is so, so good. it's photos like this i really love and that convey so much more to me than any posed photo ever could ...

And this is part of your life, it's personal, and it comes through. I hope you continue with photos like this and start thinking about a "project." )

damonff

beautiful...#3 is my favorite

lizzard_nyc

seastack wrote:

love the first three but the first is so, so good. it's photos like this i really love and that convey so much more to me than any posed photo ever could ...

And this is part of your life, it's personal, and it comes through. I hope you continue with photos like this and start thinking about a "project." )

Seastack,
Thanks for your comment--Very much gave this newbie an encouragment to keep tackling PJ style photography.

tortillatorture

i absolutely love the grain, really nice,
agree with others, its the first three shots that really "sings".

i would just like to point you to an observation,
i understand that it's your brother thats the point of focus here,
i really like your story and the way you capture it. however....

it's the litle sideshow on the left that really shines,
the windowlight and grain work incredibly good.
i dont know if you was aware of the possibility when you took these shots,
but you almost struck gold, you could have captured a couple of really classic b&w portraits.

lizzard_nyc

tortillatorture wrote:

i absolutely love the grain, really nice,
agree with others, its the first three shots that really "sings".

i would just like to point you to an observation,
i understand that it's your brother thats the point of focus here,
i really like your story and the way you capture it. however....

it's the litle sideshow on the left that really shines,
the windowlight and grain work incredibly good.
i dont know if you was aware of the possibility when you took these shots,
but you almost struck gold, you could have captured a couple of really classic b&w portraits.

Tortilla Torture:
Love your crops---why didn't I think of that? Everytime I go back to my first few shots, I kept looking at my son and his sullen expression and liking it more and more.

I did take a few of just him--but I think your cropped versions work better.

Here is one of them.



Most of the others I took in color--JPEG--and wasn't happy with the results and so played with them in PP.
This is one of the few I got of him alone in the b&w grainy---all SOOC.

Again, I'm happy you liked the series. Who knew a tense breakfast would be such a boon?

Richard

That last one with the reflection is just super. clap

tortillatorture

lizzard_nyc wrote:

aha... so you DID think of it!! and you did a wonderfull job, this shot is excelente!

i didnt mean my crop/suggestions should be used as full pictures, i was only getting a visual to my point, that there was another subject in the photos that i thought you didnt realize was there.

but again, you did notice, and you capture it beautifully. well done!
(the reflection are just great!)