City - Cheltenham State - GLOUCESTERSHIRE Country - United Kingdom
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A rare portrait shot that I really love in colour as well as my usual preferred b&W.
Taken with natural window light, as part of a recent client comission. The little boy is 9 weeks old and was actually lying down - I just cropped rotated the image 90 degrees in PS to acheive this look.
Well thanks for your kind words. I'm expecting my first baby in 5 months so I guess I'll realy know what you mean then! The couple did really love their photos though. Take a look at my site if yo uwish - I have put up 9 of their images from the session so yo ucan see how this fits in. here's the link.
Due to shooting hand held and with only natural light I have to uses speeds of around 1/60 - 1/125 as them kiddies always move to quickly for 1/30 or less so shallow DOF is a standard by product when light levels are overcast as they were this day. I also like to shoot at as high ISO as possible because photos are often printed upto 70cm x 50cm (30x20inch). It would have been nice to see a little more DOF perhaps but I don;t think it detracts. It simplly draws your attention fully to the eye in question. I'm amazed how well yo ucan see the window in his eye too - that makes it for me!
So - where is your portfolio? I'd live to add some critiques!
It's amazing this child is onlly nine weeks old! He has an extremely expresive face and you did a fantastic job of capturing that. And the skin tones also look great. That is something that the parents can really love about this color portrait of their baby. All parents reading this will understand what I mean. Each of our kids has their own colors. And you caught it here. I'm sure it would loook nice in b/w as well, but this is just more tangible. To my personal taste, I would have liked to see the exact same shot, with the all of the face very sharp. (On my monitor, the more distant side looks blurrier). But that's just me. This is beautiful, and the Mom and Dad will treasure it forever.
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