My grandmother Elsie Battaglia joined FaceBook.com today, at age 99
Elsie Battagla, April 12, 2011, King City, Oregon, USA. Photo by Kevin L. Warnock.
My grandmother Elsie Battaglia joined FaceBook today. She is 99 years old. I helped her with the signup process, but she pushed the buttons to create the account by herself. We uploaded about half of the pictures in her physical photo albums — some 1,300 pictures.
FaceBook is currently the most popular so-called ‘social network’ in the United States, and perhaps the world.
I decided to photograph grandma today for her FaceBook profile picture. She applied her own lipstick and I set up my studio light I had brought with me. I used my Canon 5D Mark II camera with the 135mm soft focus portrait lens set halfway between 0 and 1. I directed her poses like I was photographing a young fashion model, and the above picture is the result. I am very happy with the way it turned out, and I think she looks fantastic, especially since she isn’t wearing makeup other than lipstick, and the picture is not retouched.
