CHARACTER

[FUJI]

This lady often stops to chat if she meets me, she was shopping in our branch of ....Iceland....yesterday, as we exchanged New Year greetings, I noticed that the lighting was pretty good.....I requested a portrait .......she readily agreed....this is the best of the two.

 

The overheadd light was pretty harsh so her hair was difficult to process................again, this was shot with my £20 lens which is rapidly becoming one of my favourites.

 

whenever I shoot mature subjects, I always try to capture the young person they onnce were, age is a funny thing..................I might look 70 plus, but feel only 30 at heart............TEMPUS FUGIT:

 

I am itching to find a young portrait model, but chatting up young ladies now might get misconstrued ;-)

 

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FUJI

[bugmeister]

There's a whole life story in that face. Sympathetically taken and processed but still showing the real life person. Excellent work

[GrahamNfk]

Another superb portrait of a local character. You're good, Fuji, really good

[Korky]

Great stuff as always, Fooj. I'd love to see a mono version with that clever processing thingie you do.

 

Korky

[David]

I like that a lot Fuji and to me it is screaming out for a mono conversion - have you tried that on this portrait? I would love to see the result...as I just noticed Korky said the same thing lol

 

 

Great stuff as always, Fooj. I'd love to see a mono version with that clever processing thingie you do.

 

Korky

[FUJI]

Many thanks folks.......your wish, is my command......a mono version has been on my PC screen since this morning.....but a I had to rush our poorly Moggie to the vet.

Back to the portrait..........I am extremely pleased with the result here, what is galling is the fact that I removed a £260 lens and replaced it with that 20 quid one to take this and my portrait of Frankie......Mine is obviously a lucky pick, it has great potential.

FUJI

[GrahamNfk]

Don't feel bad about the 260 quid lens versus a 20 quid one. Different horses for different courses. I don't think I've ever been without different identical focal lengths for different images. My bitingly-sharp Pentax 28mm f3.5 was "better" than the Tamron 28mm f2.5, but both resulted in completely different image qualities (rather than quality). Sometimes it's about "quality of the image" rather than "image quality". It's one of the things that annoyed the living hell out of me in magazine reviews of different glass, and why I stopped buying the magazine (and stopped visiting some forums).

 

Back to the thread...

[ChrisLumix]

Fantastic portrait. The strange thing is though, when I first saw the photo I thought "It's a man". Anyone else get that feeling?

 

I did see an amazing website someone on Facebook posted a link to, which showed several photos of old people side by side with photos of their young selves. Sadly I didn't keep the URL.

[FUJI]

Yes!

I do agree, the lady keepers her hair very short, but looking at it more closely, it is very thin, so she chooses to have it cut that way......I admire her, because at a year older than me ( I'm 76 very soon) , she still rides a bike.

When I give her a print of the shot, I will ask her more about her life, I don't remember her at school, so she is probably an incomer to our small town.

FUJI

[FUJI]

The mono version, as promised.............hope you like it?

 

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FUJI

[NannyFerret]

Perfection! That lens is[paying dividends.

I would like to see a mono version too.

[NannyFerret]

How did I miss the mono version? I must have just replied to the original post.

[FUJI]

Perfection! That lens is[paying dividends.

I would like to see a mono version too.

 

 

I just beat you to it Nanny

 

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

I just beat you to it Nanny

 

FUJI

Tiring day today. I have my 9 year old granddaughter staying for a few days and she talks my head off lol + I've just cooked dinner and done the washing up.

John usually does the dishes but he has a sore  throat and can hardly breathe so I got it done while he wasn't looking.

 I'm sitting looking at each one in turn, and I just can't make my mind up which one I like best.

The colour one is much softer  for her face, but I like the way her hair shines "silvery" in the mono shot.

I think it has to be a draw, each with his own merits.

[David]

I really like the mono version, although as Tina said, they both have their merits. To me the mono one does just pip it - the colour version is warmer and softer, but the mono version brings her facial character and life experience out much more (to me anyway)