http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/the-invisible-mother/
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Wow! Now that is subtle.....
Haha, fantastic!
A couple of the portraits the Mothers look like a haunting ghost with that sheet over their heads.
"Yeah, no one will notice you with this table cloth on your head"
Finally a technique that would be hard to duplicate with Photoshop..........
Layers. With the "Ugly Stick" filter.
Burqas... not just for Muslims anymore!
They remind me of the chairs in 3 Stooges movies that would grab the sitter.
Or hide & seek...with legs & feet showing from behind the living room curtains.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron McElroy
Hello Cyrus
Nice work , you are great photographer.
On the 10th example, the kid on the left reminds me of someone. Can't think of who.....:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrus
Never hid a whole mother!
Standard practice doing baby portraits years ago, was to have the mother's hand under the drape holding onto the back of the baby's clothes. I think it's still a necessary technique.
It was poor form and frowned upon, to have the baby being photographed roll off the table while you were 8 feet away behind a tripod. You had absolutely no chance to pull a Dwight Clark and make "the Catch".
It was frowned upon? I'm pretty sure it still is!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Galea
I showed the page at my camera club and it was suggested that the hidden ones were not the childs mother, but the nanny.
One would not like the hired help to be shown in an expensive portrait...
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Even more so concerning nursery maids, photographers assistants and similarly ephemeral helping hands. Nannies/governesses were closer attached to the family (and mostly separated by a lower class barrier) than the bulk of servants in a 19th century household. There are a fair number of formal portraits of nannies with children - I've yet to see any of the above in a formal family portrait, except by accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by numnutz