Two Eleven-Year Olds of Note II
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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| Agustina O'Reilly Beccar-Varela |
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| Lauren Stewart |
The Same girls, Lauren Stewart and Agustina O'Reilly are now 13 almost 14. Above are portraits of both taken in March/April 2016. I photographed Agustina in Buenos Aires. And, almost three years ago:
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| Lauren Elizabeth |
I took pictures of the children of my
Argentine family. Many are the great grand children of my first
cousin/godmother Inesita Barber O’Reilly Kuker. There was one in particular
that caught my eye for several reasons. Agustina is charming, lovely, intelligent, and
has a face that I must look at constantly and to top it all she is almost the
same age, 11 as my younger granddaughter Lauren, 11.
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| Agustina |
Lauren came over today for her
post-Halloween portrait (I was commanded by her mother, my daughter Hilary
Stewart). She was dressed to look like Princess Leia.
My wife has urged me to experiment more
with my new Fuji X-E1 digital camera. I have yet to buy Lightroom so I am
unable to shoot in raw format and must content myself to shoot jpgs. I also
insist on setting my light meter (a handheld Minolta) to 100 ISO which is a
speed that Fuji
does not recommend. If I were to set it at 200 I would perhaps get a better
shadow detail and maybe less of a tendency to wash out the highlights. Shooting
raw would protect me from such a problem. In the pictures here I have yet to
nail down the problem of Lauren’s very reflective white dress. I used a beauty
dish which incremented the problem of contrast. Still I am happy with the
results. In my favourite picture where Lauren smiles I note that shooting
without the little camera on my tripod I tend to crop the sides where I do not
want to. I might have to do what I know I have to do which is to put the camera
on my tripod.
The pictures of Sofi I took with natural
window lighting using my Fuji
and a Nikon FM-2 with Fuji 800 ISO Superia colour negative. Behind her is an icon
beautifully painted by her mother Lola.
