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cyrus
12-Dec-2011, 14:02
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/the-invisible-mother/
Kirk Gittings
12-Dec-2011, 14:14
Wow! Now that is subtle.....
csant
12-Dec-2011, 14:28
Haha, fantastic!
Michael Clark
12-Dec-2011, 15:08
A couple of the portraits the Mothers look like a haunting ghost with that sheet over their heads.
cyrus
12-Dec-2011, 15:54
"Yeah, no one will notice you with this table cloth on your head"
Kirk Gittings
12-Dec-2011, 16:08
Finally a technique that would be hard to duplicate with Photoshop..........
Brian C. Miller
12-Dec-2011, 17:03
Layers. With the "Ugly Stick" filter.
cdholden
12-Dec-2011, 18:17
Burqas... not just for Muslims anymore!
Ron McElroy
12-Dec-2011, 20:21
They remind me of the chairs in 3 Stooges movies that would grab the sitter.
dsphotog
13-Dec-2011, 00:47
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.
lawrencebrussel
13-Dec-2011, 03:27
Hello Cyrus
Nice work , you are great photographer.
E. von Hoegh
14-Dec-2011, 08:09
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/the-invisible-mother/

On the 10th example, the kid on the left reminds me of someone. Can't think of who.....:confused:
Peter Galea
14-Dec-2011, 10:31
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".
cdholden
14-Dec-2011, 10:38
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!
numnutz
5-Jan-2012, 07:48
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...

nn :)
Sevo
5-Jan-2012, 08:22
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...


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.