A portrait shot of my little'un

IPClark

..it's been a while since I posted some pics but I took this shot today. 9.5 months old and getting cheekier by the day

Bit of natural light from his left. Flash bounced off the ceiling and some cheapy fake fur thing behind him. Taken at 50mm, F1.8 @ 1/125, ISO100 and +0.7 expostion compensation.

He was playing with a ball and just as I took this shot he dropped the ball and I caught it as it rolled over his hand. Either that or he has a cool ass balancing trick

Both shots are of the same image, the second, just a tighter crop.

CC's appreciated. (I already know I've overcooked the "smoothing" on the skin a bit too much )

sweet caroline

Really precious shot. I'd like to see a less processed version, too.

Caroline

Flutist

Wow, he looks like a baby doll!!! May I ask if you don't mind. Could you give a picture of the set up of this? i.e. your source of natural light to where he was seated? I try so hard to get nice photos of my kiddos with natural light and never in my wildest dreams could I get a picture this nice.

IPClark

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, I'm on a run of late shifts in work now and will get little time to work on the shots however, as soon as I do I'll work on a less processed version (learning curve )

Flutist,

I had him sat in an inflatable ring chair we have with a fake fur throw in it and behind him. directly 90 degrees to his left was the window. I had my 430 EX II on the camera pointing at the ceiling.

I had to pull the highlights back a bit on the right and also do a little burning on the fur as that had become somewhat blown out but knowing very little about portraiture photography I am happy with the results.

As mentioned, I'm going to pull back the PP work (I stand guilty of over doing it hehe)

Thanks again

JeriAmrine

I just love the eyes!!!! What a cutie!!

IPClark

JeriAmrine wrote:

I just love the eyes!!!! What a cutie!!

Thank you