Expression in Photography Series by Charlotte Thompson

[Rachel Foster]

Honestly? This child is so beautiful I'd rather see the unenhanced versions. Perhaps black and white, maybe boost contrast, but I want to see that lovely child as clearly as possible.


Just one opinion.

Charlotte, would you mind sending me an email? The website link on my posts has an email capacity.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Jacob

of course of course
I am experimenting with her beauty and what she is saying via-life and circumstances
I will try to find the original and post in black and white as I can do it in this thread asap
thank you so much
love the feedback dear Jacob* winks*

Charlotte



Jacob-
I am so so sorry but the other image you wanted in b and w is all screwed up and I can't work with it anymore
but I sent another of her in B and W for you to see-

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

RE: Baby Woman

Jacob

thank you my dear
I havent been into shooting in many many many years a friend of mine gave me a nikon d40 and this is what I am doing with it
I am a writer and artists on canvas though I dont paint any more - AND NOW BACK
again after so long away from photograhpy-
the child I must admit is my grandchild- claudia is not her real name I want to keep that private-
she is named after the child claudia in* interview with a vampire-ann rice-who the girl child and a writer friend of mine adored in the story so we call her our *claudia-
where do you post your photos-

Charlotte

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

also Rachel
look at *Claudia* in this forum on down the page it is one of the best shots in b and w that I have done so far- I couldnt believe the catch I got-

Charlotte

 

[Rachel Foster]

RE: Baby Woman

I can suggest a couple of other fora you might be interested in. One is a very small board but is run by another canvas artist. A lot of my photos are on a flickr site. Flickr allows you to choose settings that prevent unauthorized downloads.


My profile here links to a scholarship fund I'm sponsoring (here). I only toss that out because I'm quite proud of the fund (and am NOT soliciting donations; as Asher pointed out to me some months ago, that will take care of itself). This fund is named in honor of my children.

 

[Rachel Foster]

You are indeed lucky to have such an enchanting model.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Oh yes I am

and thank you so much
I will email soon-

Charlotte

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

RE: Baby Woman

Jacob

I am looking at your site now and think the photos you have done are Amazing*
especially I liked the piano and hand shot
beautiful beautiful-thank you for the site info-I will for sure look it up-you have been a blessing-

Charlotte

 

[Asher Kelman]

RE: Baby Woman

My opinion...and I'm a RAW beginner with an undeveloped eye...is that the girl is exquisite. Focus might be a little soft, though. I would want to lose the background though.

I would -- again, please note: BEGINNER here myserf -- I would try black and white, hit the contrast a bit which can sharpen it, and then perhaps try to blur the background.

ETA: Neither of these are better (or even as good) as yours, but this is what I tried.

Rachel,

Good work! You have demonstrated that an "Arc of Intent" can start at any point in an expected chain of creativity. Your first image is creative and I like it. The softness around her allows one to focus on the girl thinking. It works. Chalotte's work is harsher but itself also effective. Two totally different and worthwhile results from the same image.

This demonstrates our responsibility to ourselves to invest more effort to have the picture express what we might think not just what the engineers in Japan build into the personality of the camera.

Asher

BTW, what blur did you use? Could you post your photoshop layers?

 

[Rachel Foster]

RE: Baby Woman

Ooops, Asher just busted me!

I didn't use photoshop at all. I cheated with an extremely easy, free editing package put out by Google: Picasa. Open Picasa, click on the 3rd tab (effects), go to "soft focus." You use two sliders to adjust the size and amount of blur.

For what it's worth, I don't think the version I posted is "better" than Charlotte's in any way, just different.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

RE: Baby Woman

Jacob and Asher

ahahaaaa man I just love being with other artists
how we love the art
our intent foucsed on art and for creativity-
Jacob*
I love what you did-I do work with picasa2 so I know how to work with it
absolutely out of control with colors really I have posted in this forum-
the soft effect is beautiful indeed- I am really working on all kinds of light and dark etc. to change the meaning a bit so
Asher-
thank you for seeing me- I so appreciate that*

Charlotte

 

[Rachel Foster]

RE: Baby Woman

I tend toward hitting the contrast pretty heavily. That and stark backgrounds are my biases.

A lesson I learned the hard way is that your computer monitor can be friend or foe. I did my early work on a laptop. What looked fine there was atrocious on a good monitor.

Keep shooting!

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

RE: Baby Woman

the baby in white may become a seires to start with-yes I think so-
her strongest features brought out- as a white-out series

 

[Rachel Foster]

RE: Baby Woman

Charlotte, your style is very different from mine but one I'm finding enchanting. It is creative, no question.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

RE: Baby Woman

Rachel

thank you so much. Yes artists are different-but that thank god I am thinking of doing a white series with some of the best shots of her. Always taking pictures of her and have a lot saved as well.

Thanks for dropping in-I appreciate always what you think

Charlotte

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

claudia profile- added colors

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

we all of us have different colors
this is what I want to develope- to show something more than the usual.

Charlotte

 

[Jörgen Nyberg]

Charlotte , re the first picture.
I think that type of coloration, would work better with a cleaner background, and less saturation on her lips and eyes, looks like she´s wearing makeup.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

cool ok-
thank you- so much
I am working on a style
and I do appreciate any feedback I can get-

 

[Kathy Rappaport]

New term to me

I read about a photographer today in the local paper. She was called a Photographic Digital Artist. I think that describes this kind of work.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Kathy

would have loved to have read the article-do you remember the name

Charlotte

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

what we see-


Charlotte

 

[Kathy Rappaport]

Article:

No - I just saw the title Digital Photographic Artist.

I also have select images that I have used curves and modified the coloration beyond what is accepted as normal. Some things become beyond interesting. What you have done reminds me more of an Andy Warhol type of piece.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

thank you Kathy-I have been told that before-that is about the warhol connection-
lately I have been pulled this way and that way with artistic projects-
thank you for seeing thisin such a connected way

Charlotte

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

what we see-


Charlotte

Not sure whether it is only me and my eyesight, which at 46 is not in it's prime anymore of course, but I can not look at this picture for longer than 2 seconds, it makes me uncomfortably dizzy and I find it extremly irritating.

This is not a critizism Charlotte, just an observatioin.

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

wow then I achieved a certain dizzy quality to this work
interesting
thanks for your comment- do the other pictures in this thread have the same effect?

Charlotte

 

[Ray West]

I think it is because you have messed with the eyes. Normal portraits have sharp eyes, because, generally that is what others look at, if stood in front of a person. We are tuned to look for human like features, in particular the pug like baby, puppy, lamb faces, etc, which turn us into a protective mode. So, we look at a chubby face, and there are no eyes to focus on. The eyes are almost double exposed - as if in camera shake, not just out of focus blur. I do not want to look at the image for long either, but for other reasons. I wonder if Georg can stand flashing lights?

Best wishes,

Ray

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

but I can not look at this picture for longer than 2 seconds, it makes me uncomfortably dizzy and I find it extremly irritating.

I'd call it camera shake or poor technique, others call it art ...

Bart

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

art to one is not the same for another guys-

Charlotte

 

[Asher Kelman]

Impressive but requires a different taste. To me it has life. I'm not sure it would work in B&W or unaltered as shown. Why not post the original prepared as best as possible in color and B&W. I wonder whether anything I find valuable is there in the original classic representation.

I doubt whether Ansel Adams or Henri Bresson would have liked or appreciated this, but I do not know their attitude to such weird or strange development of images! Would they show disdain or be interested? Anyone know?

Asher