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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/21/2004
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Oh what a perfect Chistmas present that would be for my ex-husband!
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Wigwam Jones
{K:70} 11/21/2004
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Karen - you're welcome! My shirt says "I'm not very smart, but I can lift heavy things."
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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/21/2004
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Did I ever thank you for your comments? My husband was wondering what your shirt says in in your profile. I shot some ducks today! Just head shots through a fence they were not very helpful.
Thank you for taking the time on my photos.
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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/1/2004
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one more time
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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/1/2004
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I can not upload the blured image right now. I will try again later.
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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/1/2004
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I blured everything except Jimmy in PS what do you think?
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Karen Ferranti
{K:2959} 11/1/2004
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Here is the crop version. Thank you for the wonderful advice. I still have much to learn about apeture and shutter speed but you have given me a starting point. I try not to ever use the on camera flash. Everything looks washed out. In some situations when there just was not enough light I have used it but the result is usally not any better than the lack of of natural light. I was bribing him with candy for these shots and this was not working well as he wanted all of the candy. I saw the bricks, he thought it was fun trying to put them in the hole.
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Wigwam Jones
{K:70} 10/31/2004
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Per your request!
I like this photograph very much - great composition, unusual, very creative - congrats! If anything, I would consider cropping this one from just under his armpit and just over the top of his fingers - bring the attention to his actions.
Another trick to do that is to throw the background out-of-focus. When you have a bright day and an automatic camera, it choose an appropriate f-stop to keep everything in focus if possible - that means the bushes, the sidewalk, the street beyond, etc. As viewers, we're not interested in those things and they distract us.
How do you do this? Well, first you have to take control of your camera. If you can choose 'aperture preferred' mode on your camera, you can select a nice open aperture - say f3.5 at around 85mm. This should force your camera to choose a faster shutter speed to compensate, so you still get a good exposure, but the focal plane consists of just your son and his actions - not much in front, not much in back.
You have to watch out with automatic cameras when you do this - they will focus on what 'they think' is the object of your attention, and it may not be what you think it is. Sometimes you have to fool the camera by putting your son's face or hands (in this situation) in the center of the viewfinder, half-press the shutter release, let it focus, then recompose the shot without letting up on the shutter release. Then release the shot. A tripod and a remote release can help when it seems like you need four hands.
Lighting on this is OK, notice his right hand is very nearly overexposed, otherwise I'd say try some daylight fill flash. However, from this angle, a camera-mounted flash is just going to make deeper shadows on his face and overexpose his hand. If you wanted to go with flash at all to open up his face, you would almost have to try setting an off-camera strobe off to your left, pointed at the brick and bouncing it up and under his right arm onto his face. Probably a bit of an iffy experiment even then. If he turned his face and body just *slightly* towards you while still looking at the brick he's wrestling with, you'd have a slightly better shot.
However, with all that said, bravo! Nice work!
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Antonia BauerleinSehnert
{K:30599} 10/31/2004
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Cute shot. Is he trying to escape from prison? :) Toni
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