people ~ telling it like it is
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Daughters and mother / on being told of her brother's death ~ Cherry Hill (area), NJ • click to embiggenI have prepared this picture for submission to an online exhibition, titled Mother (to be published on Mother's Day), on L E N S C R A T C H.
FYI, an automate PS photomerge of 2 1/2 frames with lots of manual correction work.
gravitas et nugalis
Featured Comment: Sven W (no link provided) wrote/asked: "Being a 3 shot image, are the women posed to some extent? The image has that "tableaux" look about rather than a candid look."
my response: no posing was involved in the making of this picture. Obviously, in such tight quarters, the subjects knew I was there and making pictures, albeit µ4/3 quietly, but it is a strictly candid picture.
gravitas et nugalis
Featured Comment # 2: the wife wrote: "This was probably the only visit my two sisters and I made together to my mother during her six months in the nursing home (although many visits were made by the whole family, especially by my sister Pat). We went together on this day to tell her that her brother had died. We told stories, read the obituary and the eulogy, and had a very engaged visit. She had not spoken in many months, but when we told her, she gasped and said his name, "James." Probably the last word she said...
I have to say that the nursing home did not know we were coming, and the good care she received is clear by the fact that mom was looking good, dressed up and ready for a visit.
Needless to say, we were not at all focused on the camera.
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A nice homely image. Can't tell 100% from the screen but I'm sure the technical aspects of the multi-frame stitch are spot on.
Being a 3 shot image, are the women posed to some extent? The image has that "tableaux" look about rather than a candid look.
This was probably the only visit my two sisters and I made together to my mother during her six months in the nursing home (although many visits were made by the whole family, especially by my sister Pat). We went together on this day to tell her that her brother had died. We told stories, read the obituary and the eulogy, and had a very engaged visit. She had not spoken in many months, but when we told her, she gasped and said his name, "James." Probably the last word she said...
I have to say that the nursing home did not know we were coming, and the good care she received is clear by the fact that mom was looking good, dressed up and ready for a visit.
Needless to say, we were not at all focused on the camera.