This is my second attempt at the Family Portraits category. The deadline for it is this Saturday and I think the best I can hope for is to submit two photos. You are given five in each category but I made an error and only have two (unless I have some good fortune between now and Saturday).
I kind of like this one. I really loved the idea of getting a family portrait from the cemetery. It was the first place that came to my mind when I thought of families. It seemed like the ideal site to get family members together. Some family members had their own headstone which made it difficult to photograph. The ones I took of these didn't give the effect I was going for. That is why there are two key elements to the way I did it in the photo you see here.
First was the fact that all the names are on the same stone. All you see is the name: Walker. I really get the sense of family from this. It's the saying "The family that lays together, stays together" that drives any emotion this photo has. It seems more touching to me that all of their names are so close. Having separate stones is just too much distance for this particular family.
The second element I think is important is the fact that I shot in using the fisheye lens. The tricky thing about this lens is using it correctly. Now I'm not sure if that's the case here but I certainly feel more satisfied with the photo having used it. I worry a lot when I use this lens because everything looks neat through it. I don't like this because I don't want the camera to do all the work. I still want my eye to come through.
This photo also had the help of photoshop (obviously!). Don't know if I pushed it too far but I like it.
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