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  Sunday  January 23  2005    04: 11 PM

portraits

I started, some time ago, to get back into doing portraits. I'm using family as guinea pigs. I did one of my son Robby and then, when I tried shooting my oldest daughter, Jenny, I sort of hit a wall. I really didn't like how the shooting went and part of that was using the rectangular 6x9 format on the Mamiya. So things sort of stopped for awhile until I rediscovered the 6x6 square format when I started using a twin lens reflex. It seemed like it was a much better format for portraits. Here is a series of the Valdez family. Jenny is my oldest.


The Valdez Family
Jenny (my oldest), William (back in Ramadi), Robyn, and Evan


It was so much easier shooting square. It was hard to pick out one that was the best of all four and, after looking at them all, I liked the whole series. So here it is. The link goes to a larger version. Still a work in progress.