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Uploaded on: August 4, 2008
From My first infant shoot
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Kaitlynmarie says,
i like this, usually babies this age don’t move around to much so maybe try pulling the baby a little closer to the lens rather than all the way at the back of the chair (only if it is a safe idea of course) I do like this in B&W a lot as well.
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imagecreation says,
I won’t critique this at the moment because I am at the office and this monitor is not very good.
But, I want to mention something about studio work like this: Get your subject as far from the backdrop as possible, then shoot at a much wider aperture, I might of shot this at 5.6 or even 2.8, this will help the background fall nicely OOF and help make the baby pop more.
I think this would have been a much stronger image had the background been darker, maybe even black.
Tim
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JuliaB has offered this critique,
I agree that the chair is too close to the backdrop, but I like the idea, the immensity of the chair and the tiny baby engulfed by it. I opened this photo up 4 times in the last day trying to figure out the feelings it evokes in me. Then, this morning, before heading out to beantown it hit me; the photo speaks to the fragility of a newborn child and how they are lost in the grownup world. At least to me anyway.
In addition to flipping the aperture/shutter, and the backdrop, there is also a slight tilt to this. What can help in-camera is to use the grid feature in the D300, it overlays a nice etched grid (although its virtual, not etched) that is great when you need to have lines exactly right. I use it all the time on my D3 and John’s D300. Try it out. Off camera, Photoshop or Lightroom would help quite a bit when it comes to fixing slight perspective issues.
One other thing, about the software you are using. If I may suggest, over the next 60 days I think it would benefit you to download the 30-day trial of Photoshop, and the 30-trial of Lightroom (perhaps after that the 30-day trial of Aperture). They are investments worth making, but trying them out first will allow you to know which one will make the biggest impact in your work. Since you do not rely on photoshop trickery (not that there is anything wrong with that) I think Lightroom would probably help more right now.
Here’s the URL to Lightroom;
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/?promoid=DJGSN_P_US_FP1_LR_MN&tt=P_US_FP1_LR_MN
And here is a great video walkthru of Lightroom so you can see what it can do:
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom2/
Scott Kelby and John go back many years, this guy knows his stuff.
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