By Godafoss (waterfall) northern Iceland. This was difficult one due to the backlight, worked with levels, color, contrast and had to dodge the faces a bit so one could see them. The black dog didn't make this easier.
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Strong compositions, and wonderful candid expressions. The lighting, with the bright background and low light frontal tones, takes away from the overall effect. Some fill flash or reflected light would strengthen the impact.
I'm not sure what your camera settings were, but it looks like you had a very high ISO when you shot this. The noise in the dark areas and especially on the dog is very distracting from the rest of the image.
Not a bad family portrait at all but the sky in the backround is blown out and they are underexposed, next time I would suggest you meter of the sky and use a fill flash and I bet you will like the outcome much more.
well composed portrait. Love the look on the girls face. Love the way the eyes are focused on different things and not staring at the camera. Color tones work well. 9 - good luck in the challenge!
A bit too dark otherwise a beautiful portait couldn't see voffa!
Þessi mynd er rosalega fín Lára, þekkti strax andlitin, hún er bara svo dökk, synd, gastu ekki lýst þetta smá..?
But for the lighting, this picture would have been a very nice family portrait. Fill-in flash or at least something to reflect the light on to the subject would have filled the shadows and helped obtain a balanced lighting and contrast without losing details in shadows and blowing out the highlights.
Awwww, this is great! I love the dog being in the picture too -- added touch of family. This certainly would make a great framed print for Grandpa's desk, wouldn't it??? Beautiful!
Cute family portrait. However, you've lost all detail in the dark areas (especially on the dog's fur), fill-flash would have helped with that. At this focal distance, we should be able to see its wiskers and hair detail.
might be the monitor I'm using at work, but the photo looks a bit dark. Cannot see any facial details on the dog, and very little detail on the faces of the people. Perhaps metering differently would have helped.
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