{"id":2434,"date":"2011-02-19T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:54:41","slug":"the-portraits-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/the-portraits-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portraits continue.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2435\" title=\"8P0B9506-Edit-3_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3_1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3_1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week my work has been all about portraits of people around me. And to start it off, I&#8217;m going to take my photography back two years to when I just moved to Southern California.<br \/>\nI met Cliff as I was wandering around the Grove, in Hollywood. I was actually there with my camera seeing who I may meet and photograph. Cliff and I started talking about camera stuff &#8211; he works in film &#8211; and at some point in the conversation I took this image of him.<br \/>\nBut it wasn&#8217;t until this week that I finally was at a point with my technique that I was able to edit it in the way I originally wanted. That took a lot more experience and practice since that afternoon long ago. So note, don&#8217;t ever delete RAW images you may one day want to go back to and re-edit.<\/p>\n<p>The thing I love about this image of Cliff, his eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2439\" title=\"8P0B9506-Edit-3-2_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3-2_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3-2_1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3-2_1-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8P0B9506-Edit-3-2_1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tighter crop&#8230; or you can just click over to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/photography\/portraits\" target=\"_blank\">portfolio<\/a> for a higher res version.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2437\" title=\"IMG_8560-Edit-2_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8560-Edit-2_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8560-Edit-2_1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8560-Edit-2_1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8560-Edit-2_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image of Teo I shot outside of Anthony&#8217;s shop. Teo owns and operates his own mobile car detailing company and travels around the area here between shops and dealerships for his work. He stays pretty busy and I bump into him every week and a half or so. The other day was one of those times and I wanted to get a quick image of him since I was positive it would come out great.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really pleased that the pose, combined with the bright sunny day adding to the squint in his eyes, all worked exactly how I hoped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2440\" title=\"IMG_8579-Edit_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8579-Edit_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8579-Edit_1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8579-Edit_1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8579-Edit_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image of Sam I took while he was on a break at work. He wasn&#8217;t thrilled at the idea of me photographing him while he was smoking, however I wanted the shot. I was actually more interested in his pose, kneeling down, and his hood from his sweater draped over his face in the cold weather. The cigarette really just ends up adding a bit of attitude to the shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2436\" title=\"IMG_5161-Edit_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_5161-Edit_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_5161-Edit_1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_5161-Edit_1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_5161-Edit_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last is this image of Mac. This is a photograph I took yearsss ago &#8211; I actually took it three cameras ago, haha! So it&#8217;s a sensor that&#8217;s a few generations old, and it&#8217;s a third the resolution of what I shoot with now!<br \/>\nHowever this has been my most favorite photos of Mac that I&#8217;ve ever shot. The little smirk is totally his personality coming through in the image.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have a question for you guys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I start doing portraits, say three a week, is that something everyone would have interest in seeing?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a project I thought of doing when I moved to LA and then stopped as I got busy and didn&#8217;t have the time to go out and meet people.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s a preview shot from last week&#8217;s shoot with Bambi in Long Beach.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have a couple more images of her to share at the beginning of next week. Later this afternoon I&#8217;m leaving for San Francisco and will be back Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2441\" title=\"IMG_8555-Edit_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8555-Edit_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8555-Edit_2.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8555-Edit_2-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_8555-Edit_2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bambi is a burlesque dancer in Sweden. She was in LA for a couple weeks shooting and contacted me to do some colorful fun photos. I&#8217;ll have those up later, but this was a quick image I wanted to do with her after we finished the other shots.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great holiday weekend everyone! See you in a few days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week my work has been all about portraits of people around me. And to start it off, I&#8217;m going to take my photography back two years to when I just moved to Southern California. I met Cliff as I was wandering around the Grove, in Hollywood. I was actually there with my camera seeing who I may meet and photograph. Cliff and I started talking about camera stuff &#8211; he works in film &#8211; and at some point in the conversation I took this image of him. But it wasn&#8217;t until this week that I finally was at a point with my technique that I was able to edit it in the way I originally wanted. That took a lot more experience and practice since that afternoon long ago. So note, don&#8217;t ever delete RAW images you may one day want to go back to and re-edit. The thing I love about this image of Cliff, his eyes. Here&#8217;s a tighter crop&#8230; or you&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/the-portraits-continue\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,389,13],"tags":[780,781,785,766,782,1342,386,783,466,786],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-models","category-portrait","category-recent-work","tag-bambi","tag-burlesque","tag-cliff","tag-dancer","tag-mac","tag-models","tag-portraits","tag-sam","tag-shoot","tag-teo","is-cat-link-border-bottom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}