Baby Jenna

ChrisJ

My friends recently had their first and I got to visit earlier this week. She's two weeks old. C&C desired, but "Awe, cute"s are okay, too.



Canon 50D
17-55 EF-S lens @ 50mm
580EX Flash--on camera
f/3.2, 1/30s, ISO 400

Mostly just a RAW conversion and cleaning up a few minor skin imperfections (I'm not a fan of the ultra-smooth look).

Wachel

Awe cute!

Nice photo as well!

Mike J

I love the contrast between the black background/hair and the pink blanket/clothes! Did you use a diffuser on the flash?

ChrisJ

Wachel wrote:

Awe cute!

Nice photo as well!

Thanks!

ChrisJ

Mike J wrote:

I love the contrast between the black background/hair and the pink blanket/clothes! Did you use a diffuser on the flash?

Thanks, Mike! No diffuser, but I was bouncing off the ceiling. It was completely dark outside, so no opportunity for natural light unfortunately.

Shootin1st

Nice skin tones and the DOF works really well too.

Tee Why

Hey congrats to your friends for their new baby.
How are you liking the 50D?

angevin1

"Awe, cute"

perfect photo!

ChrisJ

Shootin1st wrote:

Nice skin tones and the DOF works really well too.

Thanks! I processed it at work, where my monitor is calibrated, but not as frequently...

ChrisJ

Tee Why wrote:

Hey congrats to your friends for their new baby.
How are you liking the 50D?

Thanks, Tom. The files are *huge* of course (~20 Meg). The noise definitely seems greater than with the 20D, which makes me think if I should've gone with the 40D instead... but a small amount of noise reduction in ACR seems to work okay. I definitely love the big screen, spot metering, ISO in the viewfinder, etc etc that are all step ups from the 20D. I haven't used Live View yet... but so far so good!

ChrisJ

angevin1 wrote:

"Awe, cute"

perfect photo!

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm on vacation right now so my visits here are few and short!