Portra 400 - Portrait Test Victim #2

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  ChristopherCoy

• Jun 14, 2020

Apparently this time she didn't want to... LOL

 

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  eli griggs

• Jun 14, 2020

HIt and Run photograph, does seem to leave the victims stunned at times. ;-)

I like this picture as it is frank, embellished and has nice values in the colours and background, without a foreground getting in the way.

Nicely done.

 

• pentaxuser

• Jun 14, 2020

Is the purple of her coat reflected to a very small extent in her upper chest region and to a much lesser extent in her face here? If so is this something that a film picks up and shows in a print that the brain filters out. If there is this reflection, then were I to see her in real life I am sure that the brain would tell me that what I am seeing is normal flesh colour - a bit like the blue shadows that a film can pick up but we see them as a shade of grey

It might of course be just my screen and/or my eyes

 

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  mfohl

• Jun 14, 2020

Nice portrait. Good use of depth of field.

 

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  Nodda Duma

• Jun 15, 2020

@pentaxuser my back yard is surrounded by tall trees and vegetation so ambient lighting has a green cast as well as blue / gray from sky depending on clouds. If it’s too much I tend to hit auto color / auto tone to compensate, like I would do for an RA-4 print in the darkroom with compensating color filters. So you have that in play as well

 

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  Nodda Duma

• Jun 15, 2020

@ChristopherCoy nah she likes to throw this look for the camera. Total poser

 

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  artonpaper

• Jun 15, 2020

I really like this photo. The girls expression, one I remember from when my daughters were that age, makes it for me. The selective focus/DOF, and the dead center composition, make all about her. It is a very expressive portrait. I do see a little blue and maybe a hint of magenta peaking through, but the color is part of the charm for me. There's accurate color, and then there's expressive color. That works here.

 

• pentaxuser

• Jun 15, 2020

Thanks for the reply Nodda Duma I know nothing of either of these auto and I don't suppose that it can be corrected on an enlarger easel anyway but If I was printing RA4 I don't think the slight cast would bother me or any viewers , indeed most might not even see it

 

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  awty

• Jun 15, 2020

She wants her chain saw back.

 

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  eli griggs

• Jun 15, 2020

"I like this picture as it is frank, embellished and has nice values in the colours and background, without a foreground getting in the way."

That is supposed to be UN-embllished.