Two Things I Never Do

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1) Shoot straight shots of children; and

2) Shoot in the stuido.

So why did I do this?


Girl, Copyright 2001 Jeff Spirer

I guess just to see what would happen...not sure if I'm real happy with the background.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), October 18, 2001

Answers

Beats me, but it's adorable!

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), October 19, 2001.

If you'd used a posing stool, the background would be distractingly sloppy. With the milk crate, it works.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), October 21, 2001.

What a sweety, and her expression is priceless! The background I think is too harshly bright for my eyes to comfortably grasp both it and the beautiful skin tone of your subject who is of course perfectly exposed.

This photograph is like the Kiss song, "Beth" in that it is so out of character from what you normally produce.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), October 22, 2001.


Here's another one, equally out of character, from the same session. She's on the crate, with her father.


Girl and Father, Copyright 2001 Jeff Spirer


-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), October 23, 2001.

I'm not a rational man when it comes to kid pics these days, but I'm pretty sure the old, hard me would also find her sweet. The first pic looks a teeny bit posed, in the sense that she looks as if she's held that position a mite too long or too often, and it's stopped being genuine. I personally find the crate and background distracting, as they're out of keeping with the formality of her pose and the lighting. There also looks to be a fair bit of flare from the brighter part of the backdrop on the left. All nits, but in this sort of thing its the nits which make the difference between a pic you for your mum and a pic for your portfolio.

The second image is much better of her, but her dad doesn't look too chuffed. My experience of family group shots is that the number of required frames goes as the sixth power of the number of of faces, but you're only on the toe of the curve here.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), October 23, 2001.



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