CORPUZ FAMILY PORTRAIT (2010 B) - Brooklyn, NY, USA This photo is kind of a remake of another family portrait which I think I can safely say is one of my better shots (see it here: http://smu.gs/tLCxGi) While I don't think this picture is nearly as good, I still like it, and because it's my family, I love it. It's taken straight from the camera without any editing. I was always planning on coming back to improve this one but decided just to leave it as is. The background is darker than I wanted it to be. If we had eaten our Katz diner sandwiches a little faster and arrived ten or fifteen minutes earlier I would've been able to catch a glorious sunset sky of pink, purple and orange. I could see it on the walk to the pier from the subway. With every labored step, as my back and shoulders ached from the weight of my massive camera bag, I could see that gorgeous sunset steadily fade away, and by the time I got there and had my tripod and three speedlites set up it was gone. Ohhhh well.
IT'S ALL IN THE EYES If I had thought of this concept before I shot it I would have taken two different photos to make it happen (and angled it differently), but unfortunately the idea only occured to me afterward (months later, actually), so I had to take one frame, make a duplicate with a reversed orientation and alter it by painting in a new set of eyes. I'm curious to know how obvious it is which one of these photos is the original, and which one has the painted eyes. See the comments below for the answer...
BLACK OR WHITE The shot on the right is entirely unedited, and all I changed on the picture on the left was darkening a couple of patches of light spill on the background and tweaking the color and contrast a bit.
