18 thoughts on “What do these two photos have in common?”

1. 

   Same lens;
   Same camera;
   Same curly-ish hair.
   Same location (probably…)
   The subjects are related
   The are both shot by you.
   They both put up with you.

   😀

   (YES!!! What do I win??)

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      …oh and also I forgot: blue shirts.

      BOOYAH.

2. 

   LOL, all your observations are correct (except for location).

   However, none are the answer I’m looking for (but, then again, you already knew that!).

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      LOL x 2… “They both put up with you.”

      How can you be so right and such a jerk at the same time? 😉

3. 

   a guess posted with no software tweaking sort of a fonzie shot you know when he used to look in the mirror and put his comb away nothing needed to be done

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      Ha ha!… Ian, that’s GOLD. But no, I’m not pulling “a fonzie”, LOL.

4. 

   Both original files are jpgs

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      Great guess Chris! … but no.

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         (in retrospect) this is perhaps an unfair question, so I will be very surprised if anyone guesses what I’ve done in both of these situations.

5. 

   The look of his/her eyes.

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      Good guess too… but, no.

      Let me give a hint: it has to do with photographic technique.

6. 

   Westcott Ice Light?

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      John, you are soooooo close, but Kostas (aka “Photomatrix”) correctly guessed flash photography.

7. 

   The background is not disctracting, so this here is a darkish background to focus on the portrait!
   The first shot is open wide, the lens on the second is more closed, oh sorry you did ask for common… 😉

   The skin is so shiny, did you use a special light reflection?

   Did you use a tripod?

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      Hi Andreas, I did not use a tripod. As per the lighting, see my response to Kostas (“Photomatrix”) below.

8. 

   They were both shot with flash/artificial light from similar position.

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      Yes! Kostas, you got it! I’m using flash photography.

      In both images, I used an off-camera flash (which was reflected in an umbrella), to the right of both subjects. Image #1 had just flash light (with no ambient light), while Image #2 was a mix of both flash and ambient light.

      I decided this year to tackle my winter blues (and the lack of light) by bringing my own light to the party! Just starting to practice with it and I didn’t identify which photos were created with it because I wanted to see if anyone would pick up on what I was doing (which would mean I was doing it wrong).

9. 

   I think you did an excellent job with it Peter, the light looks very nice. I just knew where to look for clues. Have you found the sync speed of the camera an issue?