“Cowgirl”
K.B. Canham metal folding 4×5 field camera Rodenstock f6.8 210mm lens f8@1/500th Polaroid type 55 film
Terlingua Ghost Town, Tx. Theme Week Four: Location, Location, Location
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Craig, another fun portrait with that old time feeling. I like the soft lower half, sharp face, sepia tone and casual pose. When I think of Terlingua I think of the rattlesnake cook off but the structure in the background does look like an old SW building. One more like this and you’ve got yourself a terrific tripic :0)
Murry
In both Cowboy and Cowgirl I’m enjoying the lighting and BW treatment and I look forward to hearing what you did to control light on the subject. I also enjoy the 3/4 crop and gentle pose you have her in. Did you shoot her in other background settings? If so, why did this one win out?
Love how my eye goes right to the face in both. Excellent treatment of DOF. Aren’t you glad we have Lensbabies now to get the same kind of look without having to set up the 4×5?
Jerry
Love this one and the Cowboy. Great work on these, Craig. Lighting is excellent. The post processing is great, and the border, etc. fit perfectly. The soft focus or lens baby effect works very well here, too. The only thing that caught my eye in this one is the post to her left. From top to bottom it is on the same focal plane, yet part of it has blur/out of focus applied, but some of it does not. It would be interesting to see it either completely blurred or not.
Thanks for always being so inspiring and thought provoking!
Mark
wow, this really is very nice. I love your vision for the mini portfolio, and really just am inspired by you as a whole. I really like the selective focus idea and miss this in a digital world. I don’t feel like I’m in any position to critique you, as you are one of my biggest inspirations. I do like the color tones of the image, and the choice of background. the type 55 really gives it a very nice look. The lighting on her face is also very nice.
you really do inspire me.
-Christopher
Really like the shot but was wondering if the blurr was right out of the camera or was this image worked on in photoshop. What raises this question for me is the wooden side of the door is in focus as is the face but at different levels.
david
Craig, this is another old timey image feeling. I like everything about it, except for the pose!!! Could it have been more interesting? Could the girl have been doing somthing other than just standing there like she’s waiting patiently – even smiling – until you get done so she can do something more interesting? LOL, guess I’m the only one who wants a tad of action. Oh well
Flo
I don’t mean to be at all negative here and I am not not going to refer to either image in particular but this process will be made so much less vakuable if people cannot critique an images because they are fans of Craig’s. Craig has plenty of fans, he has asked for feedback on his images. Feedback should always include “in a perfect world”.
I would ask Craig the question why in 2007 with incredible sharp lenses and wonderful digital technology we are suddenly looking at museum pictures? Is this nostalgia for better days? I am sure that given the opportunity to live as a real cowboy/girl of 150 years ago, most of us would be asking for the keys to the time machine within 24 hours! LOL
I think there is a believability issue here as well but can’t put my finger on why. Perhaps the V-neck white T doesn’t seem right. I do think it would be interesting from a fashion perspective but without the selective focus. Composition is very nice.
I do think Cowgirl could be up Cowboy.
Respectfully,
JG
This one I really like, and as a bonus I think I was there at the creation. Brings back thoughts of the area and how much I would like to go back there and shoot again. And unlike the previous image, I’m very comfortable with this one, it doesn’t seem to be trying to be something it’s not. I really think this is a great portrait image, and more importantly it makes me want to get my camera and go out and find someone to shoot. I like the overall feel of the image and the blur gives just enough detail to keep things interesting but still brings my eyes back up to her face.
“Feedback should always include “in a perfect world”.”
The world isn’t perfect, so I don’t see that as being relative to the feedback. Just out of curiosity, who made that rule? Am I a fan of Craig’s? You bet! Do I think he walks on water and every image he turns out “floats my boat”? No.
The image works for me not only because of the technique he used, but because of the framing as well. But then, it’s all subjective, isn’t it?
Respectfully,
Jery
Geez, you’d think I could spell my own name right, even before my first cup of java…:-)
Jerry
I do enjoy the lens baby in some portraits, but for some reason I am not enjoying them in the Cowboy and Cowgirl photos. I like everything else; the coloring/tinting effect, the posing, the clothing…I didn’t get the feeling that you were trying to make it truly old-time but just creating a unique mood and I think you succeed in illustrating a nice idea in both. Well, I’m not THAT big of a fan of the baby in portraits I guess because the lower halves of the pics seem to be holding my attention too much and get distracting for me. Is it because the poses are so static and compositionally balanced and then the baby is blurring to downplay the bottom-halves when it really isn’t? I feel like I want to darken or lighten or crop the bottoms because of the blur, but I probably would’ve liked to keep that information in them if they were in focus?!! Sorry, it must be my personal distaste for so much blurring in these two, because I actually really enjoy the clean and calm mood of both images’ top-halves a lot, as well as the general composition and poses.