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The softness inherent in the film material you used here is something to behold (to use a slightly old-fashioned expression). I start to wonder what that crispy sharpness in sophisticated digital photo gear is really good for. Maybe for documenting, but not for the feeling of a particular shot. Did you use your Yashica here?
Great and lovely shot, great feel and great use of spaces - namely "wasting" a good 2/3 for a non-distinct foreground, but giving your actual target a lot of suspense that comes to live only through your use of "dead matter".
Very good. Very.
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I must say that my 28mm and my old CANON 50 are not very good at crisp images. The 28mm opens too wide, and while with the 1.6 crop of the APS-C, it has a very decent depth of field even wide open, on the "full-frame" I have to pay more attention - which I don't do. Not only that here, but as far as I remember, the ISO 400 was not enough and I ended up using a slow speed. I have one regret for the composition, that is not have kneed down, so that I would have the right side of the door parallel to the frame. But with kids, you don't have a second chance, so I shot rather than paying attention to the details...
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Not the slightest need for regrets here. To my eyes, this one is just perfect. It's true I'm a bit at a loss to explain clearly why that should be so. But there is darkness and light here, a background that doesn't give away too much when it comes to details, there's a suspense in this composition that fits exactly the way a kid like Lucien must see/experience the world, or so it seems to me. As a part of mine has never really grown up fully (the reproach I hear sometimes), I may see this through the eyes of a child. And with these eyes, it's full of life, fears and adventures (the adventures being the dark, impenetrable parts where anything can happen and monsters are abound). 
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Very kind words, Bruno, and that really fit both what he was doing - these adventures he lives at every instant - and what I wanted to show.
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There is something what doesnΒ΄t allow you to stop looking at this photo...
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Thanks, Betty. That little one has extra-powers on me too
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Guess I have to train my eyes to see compositions around me and not create them on a paper.
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That's an interesting point. I guess that even for photography, you still have to "create" them sometimes.
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Absolutely. But personaly I think the best shots are spontaneous.
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If I take this one [link] it can qualify as spontaneous, I was there, somebody passes by and I shot. BUT! I had gone twice to that spot already, without shooting anything, just trying to find the way to capture the building.
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I see.
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I have my camera all the time... because whenever I don't have it, the perfect moment magically happens!
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Haha, that is so true. ^^
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Beautiful. I love the contrast between his tough stance and his thin features and sweet pajamas
very well composed
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Thanks a lot, Mary. Indeed, he is skinny but BOLD. You read in this picture very well!
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Nice. I like how nothing is really in clear focus. It gives it a different sort of feel.
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Thanks, Quinn. The low light forced me to open very wide. I use that lens usually on a 1.6x crop, thus with more depth of field, and I often get tricked with it on my film camera. So the lack of sharpness was not intentional, but I found it acceptable as well.
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Merci, Hanan. Un film avec des enfants cruels
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on les touve ou, les enfants non cruels?
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Yes, I can imagine one. As in these movies where kids turn into cruel monsters.
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Thanks, Paul. I wish it would be a bit more sharp, but there was very little light.
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Oui, mais deja en train de s'agiter!
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