Suprise !

harjtt

Yesterday I did my first ever requested photoshoot at one of my oldest friends suprise party for passing one of the toughest exams anywhere on the planet - Cisco's CCIE. As I'm no pro I just tried to see if I could just capture the moment in as candid and relaxed style as I could. I've never taken that many shots in a day and so far only uploaded a few of them. I'd like your comments and opinions on these.

1. This is "Am"


2. This is G



3. Suprise!



4. This is Sehm



5. Ras and Sehm's mother look on



6. Sehm's father and father-in-law look on in pride




7. Little Tiger



8. Where's the cricket ?


The rest of the shots can be seen here:

http://HarjTT.smugmug.com/gallery/1523035/1/73209051

Cheers

HarjTT

:thumb:D

DoctorIt

you couldn't have caught the moment much better!



and this is a great portrait of the mood:

DavidS

I love the one of the little boy.

System

so, the guy in the first photo, when asked, "who are you?", says "I Am."?-

great pics-

thanks for posting-

george

harjtt

gefillmore wrote:

so, the guy in the first photo, when asked, "who are you?", says "I Am."?-

great pics-

thanks for posting-

george

Hi George

Lol. Now that was funny becuase it was near enough spot on and the kind of thing he would say just to fool around.

Cheers

Harj

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harjtt

DoctorIt wrote:

you couldn't have caught the moment much better!



and this is a great portrait of the mood:

Hi Erik

Thanks for the comments - I had to convert the shots to B&W as I'd left the WB on a manual setting when I took Am & G's shots and that completely skewed the colour. The portrait I was really lucky as he'd just spotted Mike a really old friend of his who'd flown in from Singapore to add to the suprise.

Camerawise I was pleased with how the pics came out but I'm really noticing the limitation of a small EVF and eth lag between shots when everyones moving at pace.

Dave,

Thanks for checking the shot and commenting and yeah the little boy was seriously cute - my only shot of him though as he seemed to have "ants in his pants"

Cheers

Harj

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Ted Szukalski

I really enjoy the first shot. It is a bit unorthodox with a person looking away and the void of the white to the left, but to me this creates some anticipation. There is an element of mistury to it. Well done.

GREAPER

Great set, well done.

photocat

Indeed a relaxed shoot! But the results are very nice. I could look at a lot more without being bored. Great shots... You were short on the ball to take some great movement and expressions shots. I think you did really well. The black and white conversions add to the whole, very lovely series...

saurora

You Nailed It!
These are just super!!! I love to look at people shots. Especially happy scenes like these. You did a wonderful job on both the color and the black and white, and you really nailed it capturing their expressions and the mood of the party!