Greetings from the critique club :)
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
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?
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
Thanks! Maybe I just make quiet babies but she doesn't really cry that much :)
5 years is a good age difference, the older sibling is more understanding and very helpful. I couldn't imagine having mine closer together.
To answer your question, yes I did use the channel mixer in monochrome just as you said. Danika was broken out with milia at the time of the picture and converting it any other way made the pimples too prominent. There was only a bit of burning on the edges of the photo to increase the "moodiness".
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 :)
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