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I’d love to hear your thoughts on this image. I didn’t title it because, I didn’t want to guide anyone’s observations.

What does this image make you think? Feel? What do you see?

Everyone sees art differently and, I’d love to hear everyone’s raw take 🙂

Almost a year?? Crap.

Portrait

Hey followers and new viewers. As I was setting up to drop this post, I had a birds-eye view of all dates on my previous uploads and it hit me that it had been 11 months between Mar 2020 and Feb 2021 where I hadn’t posted at all.

I went from posting 3 times a week, to once a week, to somehow, finding myself not posting for almost a year. Has anyone else had this much of a drought on their website? I’d really like to hear about it in the comments.

This photo is from the same series as the other photo. I’m trying to get back to posting more content but, first, I need to get back to creating. Wish me luck!

Week 2, Day 3. Happy Friday

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This is the last image in the series and the last headshot for now. I hope you’ve all enjoyed the journey as much as I have enjoyed sharing it. Of course I wanted to leave you with a joyous shot. Something to lift your spirits after a long or difficult work week.

Something to revitalize you as you go into your well-deserved weekend off from work. And if you’re working the weekend then, something to help you power through it!

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Take care and be safe!

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Fun with gels- Week 2, Day 1

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We’re back and continuing the series we started last week. I realized something after I posted the images last week. I have to edit my headshots with a higher degree of scrutiny if I want them to look as polished as my full lenght portraits.

I started out doing headshots and left them behind for awhile. I know the level to which I used to edit my older shots and I told myself it was no longer necessary. For full-length shots, that’s absolutely true.

For these shots I’m going to show you this week, there has been quite a lot of time put into editing. More so than even last week’s shots.

Anyway… enjoy! 🙂

 

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Fun with gels- Week 1, Day 3

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First off, Happy Friday!! 🙂

I wanted to round out the week with a high-energy shot. A mood, color and expression to lift your moods as you go into your weekends. How’d I do? What does this shot make you feel? Does the yellow boost your energy a little bit? Is the expression worthy of a “Hanif Williams Photography- Friday” post? 🙂

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Fun with gels- Week 1, Day 2

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Oh yes.. We’re doing more gel shots and they’re not going to all be happy and whimsical lol..

Different colors, different lighting, different expressions/moods.

I wanted to push myself and see what kinds of mood I could illustrate by mixing the lighting styles, background colors and facial expressions. What’s your take on the image I posted before two days ago? What’s your take on this one?

Follow the blog to see the rest of the upcoming shots 🙂

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