I've always loved that ole fashioned look to portraits, I know many will hate this, but still don't want to please the masses, really!
I took this soon after my son woke up, sometimes the just woken up look needs to be photographed. Hence his gaze.
The soft look is intentional.
[Jan. 4th, 2012 07:05:07 PM]
thanks ubiquefor the comment
Thanks for all the other nice comments.
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As a teenager and then an adult with some problems waking up in the morning, I can only sympathize. And parents fiddling around with cameras (in my dad's case, with fishing nets and rods, at 5 in the morning) do not help :D A wonderful very true portrait. Good Job!
out of focus, badly lit, subject looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.
You really ought to consider ticking this quoted comment as helpful, Anita. It's a perfect (though unconscious, I grant you) appreciation of the photograph isn't it? Out of focus, badly lit and rather be elsewhere are all surely the very point of your Ode to Eleven.
It's a splendid, three-dimensional picture, a picture with some purpose, just as the quoted commenter has pointed out.
Now this is (intentionally) very clever. The uncertainty, contradiction and innocence of the age is perfectly represented in your sympathetic treatment. Your picture is a fine example of when and why convention can be profitably ditched. It's in my top three picks, and damned with the faint praise of the Order of the Thumb. Thank you.
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