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Photo of the Week – Don Kimmer

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“The Eyes Have It!”

Don Kimmer's Granddaughter Gia

Don Kimmer's Granddaughter Gia

What does it take to make a great casual portrait? A combination of good light, unobtrusive background, sharp focus on the eyes, a relatively long focal length, a wide aperture, a natural pose and…. maybe a little luck. The background here is a sidewalk (the blue tint indicates the shot was made in the shade). The lighting is soft and diffuse, not direct. The lens was zoomed in to 135mm and the f stop chosen was f/5.6 to blur the background. The pose is natural and perfect with the two hands on an apple which is about to be crunched.

This image was captured when Don was having lunch with his granddaughter at a local elementary school during one of those “grandparents’ day” invitations.

Photo of the Week – Janice Mastorio-Worth

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Janice Worth has a talent for locating interesting people  in exotic settings, finding the best perspective and framing the scene to tell a complete story.  Below is the capture of Balinese
taking part in a Hindu water purification ceremony where the old is washed away to allow for a new beginning. If you look closely you’ll see five queues, winding peacefully and happily to place  offerings and bathe in the water gushing from fountains spaced along the wall.  It’s probably not a shot that will walk away with the blue ribbon in a juried show as it doesn’t employ any special techniques, there’s nothing here that “grabs” the viewer and perhaps it doesn’t follow the “rules” of composition but overall it has great appeal.

Janice Mastorio-Worth - Hindu Purification Ceremony on the island of Bali

Janice Mastorio-Worth - Hindu Purification Ceremony on the island of Bali

There is an additional shot available here that shows a different perspective on the same scene.