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12/05/2005 06:17:38 AM · #1 |
Being quite new to (digital) photography I dived deep into one of the hardest fields, child portait. Here comes my first shot that I'm brave enough to call a result. My aim was to show the natural and serious curiosity of this little girl. Please be so kind to tell me your thoughts about it, be it positive or negative. Post-process: slight colour shifts and resize only, no additional crop or spot editing was done.
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12/05/2005 06:31:16 AM · #2 |
I think by simply cropping this tighter would get rid of the left hand, two tone wall distraction.
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12/05/2005 07:42:32 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:
I think by simply cropping this tighter would get rid of the left hand, two tone wall distraction. |
Tried it.
- It placed her head too much in the center so she looked out of the picture to the left. (The slightly downward pointing look that meant a big plus for me vanished this way.)
- Cropping some of the right side as well squeezed her cheek to the edge.
- Finally noticed that the yellow background just doesn't work here.
Thanks for the comment, for telling me the direction of playing trial and error. |
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12/05/2005 08:14:22 AM · #4 |
A quick attempt.
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12/05/2005 09:26:51 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
A quick attempt. |
This looks too pale for me (but this monitor is not calibrated and its colours are even worse than of the one at home). Anyway, I can see the point of separating the background and the skin tones, thank you. |
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12/05/2005 09:51:00 AM · #6 |
As a rule of thumb, its usually not good to crop a person's chin. Cropping forehead is fine. The light quality on the face is nice, but I do agree she needs seperation from the background.
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12/05/2005 03:01:09 PM · #7 |
I'm pretty new to photography period but I have learned a lot here. I agree with Idnic. I don't like the cropping at the chin. And the wall in the background is distracting. You have good focus though.
You'll get there, just keep practicing. My almost 5yo daughter is my daily victim lol. |
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12/08/2005 08:49:24 AM · #8 |
Learned and read about colours and skin tones I'm working on another portait of her (which would have made a great post to the "Say cheese" challenge if I took it one day later...) and will post it here soon.
For the time being, allow me to ask your opinions about my first Moon shot:
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12/16/2005 05:26:34 AM · #9 |
I've just found that there are some Moon shots posted in the Cheese challenge. Now I feel pretty bad to have posted it here giving away ideas. Sorry for that.
I wouldn't have posted it, I simply did not feel it fits enough. But now, seen Moon shots there, may I ask for a score and/or some comments?
I know that it's small but it's already at 100% pixel size of the original shot. |
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12/16/2005 07:20:40 AM · #10 |
the lighting is good, what did you use?
:-)
Actually it looks quite blurry and crisp and in focus as "it should be".
but you definitely shot this when the moon was at one of it's more interesting phases. |
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12/16/2005 08:28:46 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:
the lighting is good, what did you use?
:-)
Actually it looks quite blurry and crisp and in focus as "it should be".
but you definitely shot this when the moon was at one of it's more interesting phases. |
I knew my built-in flash would be enough to give such well-defined shadows to the craters. :-)
Thanks anyway. |
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