Somnolentby
KaliComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
As a parent, I always get a little bit lost for words when I am commenting on photos of children so I am going to keep this pretty short.
First off, congratulations on your new baby! I remember those first days very vaguely, funny how our minds only remember them sleeping like this and not of them crying their lungs out, hehe :) Has got me and my wife thinking about making another one and Alexander is not even 5 years old :P
This photo definately meets the challenge, I like the shallow DOF and that you decided to make this b/w. I am not really fond of the way you did convert it to b/w though, did you use the channel mixer and a lot of the red channel and very little of the green and blue channels? I just feel like this image looks a bit too "Infra Red" to my personal taste. It´s a minor detail though but I think I would have liked it even better if you had a little less IR look to it and had used more of the green channel while b/w converting it. Perhaps I am wrong and you got this IR look some other way, by perhaps dodging/burning but in any case, I think I would have preferred the image with some other b/w look.
Lighting is nice, as is the composition and DOF like I said earlier. Both of your expressions are memorable and sincere and they always look like little angles when they are sleeping :)
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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