Mike Spinak
pro member
For the last few years, I've been doing a big personal project of photographing my dear friend's daughter, I.
I discuss this more, here:
http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3465
This is another portrait of I., taken when she was about two. She was fingerpainting on a glass wall, and I saw the opportunity to get a picture of her fingerpainting from in front, so I went outside to take this shot. Bright reflections were everywhere, and I had to block the reflections with the shadow of my own body close to the glass, and compose the picture within the area where my shadow fell. This made it a bit awkward and difficult.
She was changing the painting on the glass constantly and rapidly, while I looked for the right opportunity. I appreciated the classic child's intensity of her focus on on her activity, and wanted to show it. I wanted to make the photo into a reflection of her inner state, lost in her own world of creative thought, and so I wanted to do this by showing her as seemingly an abstracted form within a modern painting. To do this, I wanted a balance of the foreground fingerpainting and her in the background which showed her form in a sufficiently recognizable way, but made her into somewhat of a clouded abstraction. Hmmm... It's difficult to articulate what I'm trying to say, but hopefully the picture speaks for itself.
Here's what I got. I hope you enjoy it.
I discuss this more, here:
http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3465
This is another portrait of I., taken when she was about two. She was fingerpainting on a glass wall, and I saw the opportunity to get a picture of her fingerpainting from in front, so I went outside to take this shot. Bright reflections were everywhere, and I had to block the reflections with the shadow of my own body close to the glass, and compose the picture within the area where my shadow fell. This made it a bit awkward and difficult.
She was changing the painting on the glass constantly and rapidly, while I looked for the right opportunity. I appreciated the classic child's intensity of her focus on on her activity, and wanted to show it. I wanted to make the photo into a reflection of her inner state, lost in her own world of creative thought, and so I wanted to do this by showing her as seemingly an abstracted form within a modern painting. To do this, I wanted a balance of the foreground fingerpainting and her in the background which showed her form in a sufficiently recognizable way, but made her into somewhat of a clouded abstraction. Hmmm... It's difficult to articulate what I'm trying to say, but hopefully the picture speaks for itself.
Here's what I got. I hope you enjoy it.
