Portrait of my wife
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Posted 07/12/2020 - 19:00
Can't think why you are not allowed to exhibit such a good portrait.
I might have been tempted to go square
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I might have been tempted to go square
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Posted 07/12/2020 - 19:09
Gareth, you have a beautiful wife and you have done her proud with this portrait
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Posted 07/12/2020 - 19:34
Thanks both! Typical beautiful lady syndrome where she doesn't see how beautiful she is and doesn't like images online of her. One day she'll see what I see 
I looked at different crops but settled on a 16:9 as I liked the framing and the hint of arms and hands in the shadows
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I looked at different crops but settled on a 16:9 as I liked the framing and the hint of arms and hands in the shadows
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Posted 07/12/2020 - 22:48
A lovely, intimate portrait. 
It raises a question in my mind: could you have turned out something as good if she was a model rather than you wife?
I'm with your wife 100% re not wanting her photo put on social media, I don't want personal pictures of me on social media either. Nothing to do with how beautiful I am (not!!!), some of us simply aren't comfortable with it - and contrary to what much of the population seems to think, it's not obligatory.
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It raises a question in my mind: could you have turned out something as good if she was a model rather than you wife?
I'm with your wife 100% re not wanting her photo put on social media, I don't want personal pictures of me on social media either. Nothing to do with how beautiful I am (not!!!), some of us simply aren't comfortable with it - and contrary to what much of the population seems to think, it's not obligatory
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Posted 08/12/2020 - 13:36
That's a good, non-traditional portrait - like the choice of format and processing 
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Posted 09/12/2020 - 14:18
Lovely Gareth, portrait and wife both.
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Posted 09/12/2020 - 21:56
Thanks all, appreciate the comments
Gareth
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Gareth
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Posted 10/12/2020 - 05:07
Both the lighting and the crop give it a movie-film look. Like it.
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Gareth
Welsh Photographer
My outfit: K1 gripped - Pentax D FA 24-70mm - Sigma 70-200mm OS HSM - Pentax modified DA* 60-250mm f4 - Irix 15mm Firefly - Sigma 50-500mm - FA 50mm f1.4 - Tamron SP 90mm macro - Pentax AF 540 FGZ Ii
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