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May Week 2 - Mothers

Sarah in VA  

09 May 2010 - 08:31 AM

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© Sarah Schantz
May Week 2 - Mothers
This is a photo of my husband's mother, Jennie, that I took the last time we saw them - several weeks ago. She and my father-in-law will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary in July and she asked me to take some photos of them together and separately for the occasion. We did this on the spur of the moment and now she's afraid they won't be good enough, so has asked that I try it again when we see them next week. Of course, they will be all "dressed up" and probably stiff and I probably won't get them as natural looking as these photos show.

We were in a hotel lobby with tons of windows and skylights - just wonderful light. I did a bit of post processing with PW Actions.

I used my Canon T1i - 50mm lens
f/1.8 1/200 shutter speed
ISO 200, White Balance - Sunny



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Comments

AggieB 

09 May 2010 - 09:08 AM | Permalink: #1
Oh, this is a great picture! I don't think you should redo it. Not that the next batch won't be good, but this is already fabulous. Such a great expression & the backlight on her hair, just beautiful.

princessrunningfingers 

09 May 2010 - 11:17 AM | Permalink: #2
I agree. I think this is a wonderful photo. She is a beautiful woman, and I think her personality shines through in this photo. I really don't see how a retake could be any better. My congratulations to them. My parents were married 62 years when my Father died. We're shooting for that for us.

RosemaryS 

09 May 2010 - 08:37 PM | Permalink: #3
Sarah, this is fantastic. I love the beautiful face you've captured and the bg is so soft and more subtle. the rule of thirds is really working well in the angle of her face turned towards the camera with her body more to the left. It works really well as a lovely portrait.

Julie - scrapaholic 

09 May 2010 - 08:49 PM | Permalink: #4
This is beautiful Sarah. I love that you captured the twinkle in her eyes, and the softness of her beautiful face. I second Rosemary's comment about the rule of thirds. It works.

catinkeri 

09 May 2010 - 08:54 PM | Permalink: #5
Sarah - this looks wonderful! Your composition is absolutely spot on!! And with such a lovely looking subject, you could hardly go wrong! Rosemary hit it on the head with the comment about the body turning toward the camera - lovely. She's a lucky lady to have you as her DIL. Definitely one for the wall - the lighting is great!

kayoft 

09 May 2010 - 08:56 PM | Permalink: #6
Sarah, this looks very professional! Wow, has she seen the photo yet? The lighting seems perfect. Excellent job of minimizing the reflection in her glasses.

Ngaire 

10 May 2010 - 12:04 AM | Permalink: #7
Goodness Sarah I think it will be very hard to get better than this. Your MIL looks gorgeous!!

NS_Scrapper 

24 May 2010 - 09:03 AM | Permalink: #8
This is a lovely portrait - the placement and the soft light are very flattering. I bet that your MIL will be very pleased with the results.
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