My family portrait

KTBoom2006-E510

TRYING, and I do mean TRYING to get my neices, nephew, and daughter to all do what I want for a family portrait! Talk about impossible... Lol, they wouldn't do the poses I wanted, they did the pose my sister wanted... personally, I would've like mine better. Oh well, I will try again tomorrow. here are the ones I got. ***not really edited to much***


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KTBoom2006-E510

My pose I wanted to do was on the ground. My nephew laying on his belly, my daughter sitting on his back, his 2 sisters on each side of him then didn't know what to do with the other girl (my husbands niece.)

ilbcnu

IMO #1 - kids too far apart and dark tree ~Love #2 - posed and looking truly happy with nice coloring~#5 makes me laugh...two unhappy, two ok and one leaving - probably how alot of kid shots turn out!!!
Maybe try two older ones flipped out backs to the trio all pulled in tight and two older on ends look sideways to camera? Good luck and let us see more when you have them!!

KTBoom2006-E510

ilbcnu wrote:

IMO #1 - kids too far apart and dark tree ~Love #2 - posed and looking truly happy with nice coloring~#5 makes me laugh...two unhappy, two ok and one leaving - probably how alot of kid shots turn out!!!
Maybe try two older ones flipped out backs to the trio all pulled in tight and two older on ends look sideways to camera? Good luck and let us see more when you have them!!

That's what I thought about the pose. My sister wanted it like that, and i was thinking they were spread apart to much. I wanted them all bunched up together on the ground. And my lil one HAS to be by her buddy, my nephew. That is why I have some with her happy. She is good if she has him. She absolutely loved sitting on his back.

ilbcnu

she is a cutie! love the toenails.

BillyVerden

Great Shots. #1 and #3 are my favorites. It looked to me that on #1, you could really improve the photo as far as being too spread out if you just moved the girl on the right, in closer to the middle. I did a test of this in PS and i think it really does make the photo happier(less separated). Its too great a photo to let the disconnectedness get in the way. They all have such great smiles in that particular one.

KTBoom2006-E510

BillyVerden wrote:

Great Shots. #1 and #3 are my favorites. It looked to me that on #1, you could really improve the photo as far as being too spread out if you just moved the girl on the right, in closer to the middle. I did a test of this in PS and i think it really does make the photo happier(less separated). Its too great a photo to let the disconnectedness get in the way. They all have such great smiles in that particular one.

Thank you. I hope that when we go back today they will let me do what I want.:D

zoomer

Nice shots overall.
Nothing wrong with having them spread apart but it would look better if it keeps some kind of symetrey. The shot where the kids are stacked doesn't work for me. If they were each leaning out a different direction maybe and the two other kids sitting with their backs to the stack with their legs pointing away from the center.

Try going to saturation and taking some of the yellow out. If you can select the children and then do an inverse selection you can take out the yellow, blur the background a bit and reduce contrast on the background. This will bring out the children more against that competing background.

In all but the last one the crops are to tight...leave a little room on the edges.

My favorite is the last one. Shows their personalitys, symmetry to the pose and not cropped to tight...now if you could darken the light background and brighten the kids....

Anyway you get the idea. Very cute bunch of kids they look like a lot of fun!!