Comments on: Mirror, mirror on the wall

By: Karin

Karin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:11:59 +0000

Ha ha…

By: Ove

Ove — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:55:40 +0000

She’s over it, although she isn’t a bit different than others (especially women), while noticing I’m pointing at her with a camera. For a while, anyway. Then she gets tired with me and continues on what she was doing, and there’s my chance..

By: Anita Jesse

Anita Jesse — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:34 +0000

It’s a great challenge to get a subject’s attention off the camera and on something else. The camera is like a magnet for most people’s attention especially once they know it’s aimed at them. It would appear that Karin is “over it”—having been photographed so many times that is commonplace—and, at least some of the time, goes about her business undistracted.

By: Ove

Ove — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:53:58 +0000

Anita, thanks for your warm and kind comment on this image and my thoughts around it. I can't get enough of all these pictures when the thoughts obviously are far away. As a photographer, if you always could make people you photograph so acquainted with your presence and your camera that they don't pay you any notice, as in this case, imagine what images could be captured.... I think the best portraits ever has been caught this way, like this one on Marilyn Monroe.

By: Ove

Ove — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:24:05 +0000

Yes, that holds for me too, Markus. Although I’d like cameras with manual controls, I’m usually have them set on auto everything, except the aperture. Then, if there is more time form more shots, I might reconsider trying out other exposures. I get far more good shots this way than when I had my Nikon F2 that were all manual and had a light meter with hick-up.

By: Anita Jesse

Anita Jesse — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:36:11 +0000

What a wonderful portrait. I am especially fond of photos like this one where the subject is not looking directly into the camera. When the subject is thinking about something other than the camera and or photographer, we so often get a glimpse of the inner person. More importantly, we think we can see what is inside because of the simplicity and the truthfulness of the person who is lost in private thoughts. In other words, we believe that what is going on is private and not being served up for the camera.

What a lovely photo and I am struck by how much your love for her comes through in the picture as well as your comments here.

By: Markus Spring

Markus Spring — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:47:37 +0000

A thoughtful image and the proof for the theory that the best camera is the one you use this very moment. For years I was too concentrated on image quality, fiddled with the camera and lost the moments. Had I used a smaller, simpler camera, I would have had more good images. Now I am more impartial and learn to see. Working with the camera on a technical level just follows.

By: Ove

Ove — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:37:18 +0000

So do I, Glen! I’m happy the few times I succeed to catch the decisive moment, like this one was. There’s a thousand thoughts that can be read from those eyes, and most of them are quite probably our own, our interpretation and our experiences that we project into those. I like it when it is that way, you really don’t know how to interpret your feelings.

By: Glen Goffin

Glen Goffin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:56 +0000

I love photographs like this. Speculating what was on a person’s mind at that moment. Of course, I project myself into it. Like this case – it seemed to me she was asking herself, “how have I aged? Am I more beautiful today than I was 10 years ago?” Peace

By: Ove

Ove — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:17:34 +0000

Thanks, Earl! I didn’t want to over dramatise this either, but have to admit I wanted to write something like you expressed it. It sounded corny, though, so I stayed with ‘a deeper thought’.