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"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him."
(Samuel Butler - English author, 1835-1902)
This is a portrait of Stefen Kay who is an actor, dancer, singer and model.
As he sings in several languages, the world is holding his hand and he is ready to take off...
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Model: Vlada Labza
Crimea, Russia
The Valley of Ghosts
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It was a sunny morning and we went to the local Botanic Garden armed with our cams - grandkids (Matty, Charlotte), son-in-law (Raj) j and myself. We were hoping to catch the White Throated Kingfisher. Came away disappointed - no show. So we started taking pics of each other and flowers etc. Here is one of Charlotte in JPEG. No sharpen.
Love the skin tone from the A9.
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Digital watercolor abstract woman portrait.
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This is a detail of "Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici and Giulia de' Medici Pontormo" by Pontormo in the Walters Gallery in Baltimore.
About this painting (from the Walters website:
"Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci, but known by the name of his birthplace, the town of Pontormo) was esteemed by the Medici family, rulers of Florence, for his ability to capture the individuality of his sitters, while emphasizing their aristocratic demeanor. Maria Salviati, as in other contemporary portraits of her, wears the clothes of mourning for her deceased husband, the famous military leader Giovanni delle Bande Nere de' Medici (d. 1526). The little girl holding her hand here is Giulia, a Medici relative who was raised in Maria's household after the murder of the child's father, Duke Alessandro de' Medici (1511-1537). As Alessandro was born of a liaison between a Medici cardinal and an African slave, this formal portrait is the first of a child of African ancestry in European art. Giulia grew up with all the status of a Medici and married another aristocrat. Descendents of hers are alive today. By the nineteenth century, as the painting changed hands, the identity of the figures was lost. Toward the end of the century the painting surfaced again, identified as Victoria Colonna, a famous Renaissance poet, widow, and friend of Michelangelo. Good portraits of the poet are known today and the widow in the Walters' painting is not her! Presumably because of Colonna's ongoing fame (and the difficulty for a potential buyer to check on such things then), the dealer thought this name would make the painting easier to sell. The problem is that Colonna had no children; so probably to make the painting consistent with its new name, the child was painted out. Although the painting was acquired by Henry Walters in 1902, little attention was paid to it until after Walters' collection was bequeathed to the city of Baltimore in 1931 and the Walters Art Gallery was established. Then in 1937 the painting was xrayed and cleaned, revealing the presence of a child. For years the proposed identification of the child was as Maria Salviati's only child, Cosimo de' Medici (1519-1574), who went on to become Grand Duke of Tuscany. According to this theory, Cosimo, as a young adult, commissioned this image of his mother and himself to honor her attention to his upbringing after his father's death. The problem with this solution is that the child is clearly a girl with her hair in braids and a girl's clothing. In the 1990s the scholar Gabrielle Langdon proposed that the child was actually Giulia. After her work came to our attention and considerable research was carried out to confirm this proposal, the identification was changed here at the Walters and the idea slowly began to take shape for a project that would eventually become the 2012 Walters' exhibtion "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe". The accompanying publication, edited by Joaneath Spicer, is available as a free ebook."
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Model: Laura
This was taken from my shoot with the amazing Laura, at this point of the shoot I wanted to take some head shots. I had asked her to look straight down the lens, I asked her to put her hand in the middle as I wanted to focus to be on her face and I think it is safe to say that she nailed the pose.
This is one of my favourite portrait pictures that I have taken and I love the original to this and did not really want to touch it but I could not help myself…lol
I cropped the image, desaturated the image and increased the sharpness and clarity. I then used some local adjustment tools like the soft skin tool in lightrooms as well as the lip enhancement tool. I increased the clarity a bit to much and that had an effect on her hair but I kind of like how it turned out, so I left it. I used the spilt tone to add a little of bit of green and yellow.
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We celebrated my in-laws who recently had their 50th Wedding Anniversary by eating out this Sunday evening. Was a great time, and once the daylight dropped outside to blue hour, I pulled out the camera to shoot some portraits as we sat at the table. My eldest daughter here was across from me, and I was able to take this capture without using the flash in the low lighting. It was much darker there than what this photo shows, and it is just amazing what the higher ISO images that the sensors can capture without the need of a flash.
Also having the image stabilizer on this lens helped here as I was zoomed in at 105mm and hand held at 1/30 second.
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Soft morning light.
If you would do me a favor, please mention which of these two photos you like best: the one above or the one in the comments? I'm really curious to know your preference.
Any constructive criticisms you have time to provide are also welcome. Thanks!