Real Life

PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
edited January 12, 2011 in Street and Documentary
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The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
... I'm still peeling potatoes.

patti hinton photography

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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Comes under my heading of "fun captures". His expression is priceless and likely is capturing the visual attention of the baby. If the baby could talk: "Who is this whacko?" Chose a great shooting angle.
  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    It's always so funny to see how babies dissolve mature intelligent adults into mushy clowns. Laughing.gif in this case it's my brother with his new granddaughter Eva. Lord knows that face has made me laugh for more that half a century.
    The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

    patti hinton photography
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    Patti,
    You know I'm a huge fan of the real life moments.
    I know sometimes people wonder why we post shots like this on this forum. It is for that very reason that they belong here, it's the little real life moments, unposed, no flash bouncing that captures the essence of everyday life.

    I like your addition to those real life moments. The "goo goo gaaa gaaa" expression on his face is priceless. It's probably much sillier than the baby's look :)
    Liz A.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    Patti,
    You know I'm a huge fan of the real life moments.
    I know sometimes people wonder why we post shots like this on this forum. It is for that very reason that they belong here, it's the little real life moments, unposed, no flash bouncing that captures the essence of everyday life.

    I like your addition to those real life moments. The "goo goo gaaa gaaa" expression on his face is priceless. It's probably much sillier than the baby's look :)

    Absolutely! Great shot, Patti. The reality is - sorry - that these are the moments in life that really matter. It's wonderful to get that funny, ambiguous, beautifully composed street shot. But this? This is not only amusing, for all the reasons people have mentioned, but it provides literally priceless documentation of a moment in two lives.

    Forgive the sentiment, but I am reminded of these final sentences from the late John Updike's "Rabbit Is Rich:"

    "Through all this she has pushed to be here, in his lap, his hands, a real presence hardly weighing anything but alive. Fortune's hostage, heart's desire, a granddaughter. His. Another nail in his coffin. His."

    Come close to capturing that in an image and you are not only a real photographer, but you are providing someone with a priceless treasure. mwink.gif
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    thumb.gif That's a keeper for sure.

    "Oh happy day" comes to mind....

    One little highlight that could go away and I think make it a tad better? Kill the bright spot on the crown in his mouth. It almost looks like a dust spot on perfection. But that's just post work in the big picture of things.



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