Hani's portraits

iha · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 284

Hi,
Here are the pictures that I shot with SMC Takumar 50/1.4. A little girl is my friend's daughter.

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Jigt · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 412 Location: Belgium

Another Pentax freak!!

Nice pictures, extremely sharp lens!

Guido

Borges · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 646 Location: Moers, Germany

Very beautiful portraits. I like the impressive sharpness of her eyes together with the thin DOF. Perhaps I wish to see one of them converted to b/w? Thanks for showing.

Michael

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

hi Iha, first of all, thanks for sharing these pictures!

I appreciate your courage for shooting such extreme closeups! These are not simple framing choices and a bold vision is really required for them.

I am usually not a fan of 3/4 human portraits when both eyes are not in focus, especially with such extreme closeups. I don't know why. I do not have "philosophical" objection to this (I am not the kind who puts theory in front of real photographs), it's just that such photos rarely manage to fully convince me. But this time, you made me (partially) change my mind! While I think that #2 suffers, as image impact, from the blurred eye, #1 and #3 are done beautifully!!
And especially #3, is a real crack!!
So, congratulations!! I think you are really near to prefessional portraiture quality level, with these two works!!

WHat about submitting them for our group calendar? Wink

Please keep such great pictures coming!

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Wow! You don't know how lucky you are, Chinese kids are beautiful , best ones for portraits. I would like to take portraits from Chinese children really. Excellent shoots, thank you for sharing!

iha · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 284

Thank you for grats!
I did not do B-W pictures from this series because I'd like better the color of these.
I have an other old B-W picture with SMC Takumar, too. When she was sick.

Attila: Not all Asian people is Chinese Smile

She is Vietnamese.
Here more some picture I shot with Yashica 35 GSN, the film was Ilford 100.
Hani ("H?" is her name in Vietnamese) with her brother.

I wil tell her the criticals of yours Smile

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Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

I love the second-to-last picture because of the very spontaneous way she shows her love for the brother
Very Happy

LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

Hey, these are excellent photos!

spkennedy3000 · Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 334 Location: London

These are really beautiful...

robar · Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas area, Texas

really nice shots. i especially like the one where she's alone and of to the right.
hehe, pretty good shots for a canon, even tho you are using a pentax lens.