Critique Welcomed A Couple of Portraits of Meg

[Brian Moore]

I snapped these images a couple of weeks ago in Santa Ynez, California.

Olympus OM-2n and Kodak Tri-X 400 processed in Rodinal.

 

[Dave Farnes]

Fine pair of portraits, love the lighting in the second one.

 

[Brian Moore]

Fine pair of portraits, love the lighting in the second one.

Thanks Dave. Much appreciated.

 

[Pete Askew]

What wonderful portraits, Brian. And quite a different feel to them both. I love the hint of movement in the first (and that knowing look - in that she knows you are taking her picture but is pretending not to: the collusion works) and the absolute stillness in the second - it almost looks like a still from some 30's crime drama. Wonderful.

 

[Brian Moore]

What wonderful portraits, Brian. And quite a different feel to them both. I love the hint of movement in the first (and that knowing look - in that she knows you are taking her picture but is pretending not to: the collusion works) and the absolute stillness in the second - it almost looks like a still from some 30's crime drama. Wonderful.

Thanks Pete. You're spot on in your assessment of the first and your comment on the 2nd echoes a remark @Rob MacKillop made when he first saw the image on Facebook. Much appreciated Pete.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Haven't seen the first one before, and it's a cracker, sir. Great tonality, and, my, she looks beautiful. Nice mug shot, too (not hers).

 

[Brian Moore]

Haven't seen the first one before, and it's a cracker, sir. Great tonality, and, my, she looks beautiful. Nice mug shot, too (not hers).

Thanks Rob. Much appreciated.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Like them both, won't sound as a copy cat

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Two very different outcomes yet both work so well , capturing ones own or those close well, is not I sense always easy.

 

[Brian Moore]

Like them both, won't sound as a copy cat

Thanks Ivar.

Two very different outcomes yet both work so well , capturing ones own or those close well, is not I sense always easy.

Thanks Julian. I agree with you.