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from mike rosenlof (mike_rosenlof@yahoo.com)
Thanks everybody. I appreciate the comments.

There were two complaints she expressed to me. (1) She's not smiling. (2) She has a "droopy eye" (from looking at the photo, I'm not sure which, but she knows). In any case, that's what she told me. I can't say if other factors affected her opinion or not... I thought the blotchy skin (I think it was a recent sunburn) would bother her, but she seemed to shrug that off. Kind of an interesting point on what people see, or don't see.

Let's see, what was I trying to show? A late 30's woman looking attractive without a "glamour" approach. I think people are at their best as they really are. Sorry, I have no interest in soft filters and the like. There's a reason I don't get paid to do photography. :-) I do agree with the "raise the camera position" that was mentioned.

The original is pretty sharp. 4x5 film, modern 210mm lens. Lighting was open sky. The dark background is from large shrubs deeper in the shade. I printed on Ilford Warmtone FB and then toned that in Selenium at a relatively high concentration. It's scanned as B&W, so you don't see the tint. It came out fairly brown. I like the result.

I do have a "smiling" negative. Maybe I'll have to print it one of these days...

(posted 8443 days ago)

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