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Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2006

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 02/27/2006 11:56:38 AM
This shows a good eye for what makes a nice kids portrait. I hate selective desaturation but I understand the desire to play around with the technique.
This has a lot of potential. The problem I see with it is a lack of a catch light in his eyes. If you are unfamiliar with the terminology, (I read from your profile that you are fairly new to photography) this is the sparkle of highlight we see that brings life to a portrait. This is achieved through sharp focus and good lighting. A good way to create nice catch lights is to use some sort of reflector held near the subject's face. In a pinch, a piece of white paper will do. You can use the kind of poster board you can get at a drug store, or foil wrapped around cardboard also works. Even a book or a newspaper that the subjects holds himself can work as a light reflector. His hat pushed down over his eyes adds a certain amount of personality but if had been pushed up just a smidgen we would probably have seen more of the sparkle that the viewer connects with in a portrait of a living subject. I wonder if you are shooting at a higher speed ISO rating than you need? This photo and the other one in your portfolio seem somewhat grainy considering the quality of your equipment.

What is really nice about this shot is the tight framing and the fact that the viewer sees the child at eye-level and that the subject is looking out at the viewer. The crop might be a bit too tight if your subject was looking off somewhere else but in this case it works. I could use a bit more space to the right of the frame but overall this works.

I hope you don't mind the critique and advise. One never knows how much a person has researched a new hobby on their own so I may just be repeating stuff you've heard or discovered for yourself. Of course, the basics bear repeating. I still review stuff on bracketing exposure, etc just to cement stuff in my mind and I've been into photography for a couple of decades now. I'm going to check out your wife's jewelry now. :D
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