A few B&W Portraits of Arianna

anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
edited June 7, 2011 in People
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Makiao-5th-Birthday-59-X2.jpg

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Makiao-5th-Birthday-63-X2.jpg

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Makiao-5th-Birthday-60-X2.jpg
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  • CantfeelmyfingersCantfeelmyfingers Registered Users Posts: 531 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2011
    I love your conversions. The last one is my favourite =)
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  • briandelionbriandelion Registered Users Posts: 512 Major grins
    edited June 5, 2011
    I really like #1. The blurry figures and what looks like a sidewalk make me think of stick man drawings on a chalkboard. Something very childlike, dreamlike and nostalgic draws me to it. Maybe not your intention at all but that's the way it strikes me.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Thanks guys.

    @ Brian... the stick figures. Actually, my first reaction was to clone them out. However, as I let the photo set in, I did get that same sense as you, that these "stick men" added a little drama to the photo. I can't say that when I took the photo, I had this in mind but I did see that they added to the story after I downloaded and worked it in post.

    Here is one of the above images but with a little grain added. I don't normally do grain in my conversions but I think it works well with this one:

    Ana-Grain-1-X2.jpg
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  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    lovely light alex. that's all!
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Qarik wrote: »
    lovely light alex. that's all!

    So everything else but the light sucks? headscratch.gif
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Nice shots and what a georgous wife. If your ever in MD please look me up. Would love to photograph those eyes.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Nice shots and what a georgous wife. If your ever in MD please look me up. Would love to photograph those eyes.

    Thanks but not the wife this time. Her cousin.
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Good lookin women run in the group. Your a lucky guy.
    Charles
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Good lookin women run in the group. Your a lucky guy.

    Ha... actually, a few of us guys were just talking about this very thing. There haven't been any boys born in my wife's family in about 35 years and all the gals are very beautiful. The last 5 kids born have all been boys though so I think the matriarchal era is over.

    BTW, here is Ana with her mother, my wife's first cousin:

    Makiao-5th-Birthday-11-XL.jpg
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2011
    ha......I'll take her mom also.
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2011
    anonymouscuban wrote: »
    So everything else but the light sucks? headscratch.gif

    yeah! you have to try harder then that! rolleyes1.gif
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    14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
    85 and 50 1.4
    45 PC and sb910 x2
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