Portraits of Lily

Messing with the new 100mm Macro - said it was "good for portraits", practised on beautiful Lily

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The reflection in her eyes is me.....so I'm not taking it out as I am never in any of my shots!!!!
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Looks like you have another beauty to work with...

Beautiful shots. I would love to see this in color and softened ....to look more girly rather than so HDR like

Nice lens and good work. Beautiful girl, of these I think#2 is my favorite.

Nice portraits.


Bruce

Hi Nat, these are for you, I love Mono so tend to forget how beautiful colour can be especially with those amazing brown eyes....I hope you like xx
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Oh, yes! I like these! She is a beauty, alright. The eyes and those natural red lips only a young one can have. For a little beauty her age, I think these suit her so much better. Thank you for sharing!

That first one is smile inducing, nice captures.

2nd and 3rd color are just beautiful!

Beautiful images Joanne, of a beautiful little girl well captured!

One word....beautiful.

Irene

Just great. She is a beauty. I prefer your black & white photos. I feel that the nice colours distract from
neatly composed photos. That is only my opinion.
Cheers Ole

The last pic (colored version) should be enlarged/framed and matted and hanging on your wall!!
All of the photos are excellent it's just the color and those wonderful eyes with that expression make that shot POP!!

Yep, third one is a wall hanger! Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing!

DougR

The colour ones are fine, but, for me, the B & Ws capture the character and 'soul' so much more. I'm no portraitist, but these give me enormous pleasure. Beautiful pics.

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Originally Posted by Donald

The colour ones are fine, but, for me, the B & Ws capture the character and 'soul' so much more. I'm no portraitist, but these give me enormous pleasure. Beautiful pics.

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Thank you Donald, I too find that when I look at black and white everything is stripped down to essence of the subject. I love to work in B&W and find that every image I take I convert it to see if it looks better in mono (which to me invariably does).