A Morning In Our Life - Gracie

met

I wasn't sure if this belonged in People or Street & PJ, but it was inspired by B.D.'s "A Day In Our Life" so I decided to put it here. I spent a bit of time one morning with my niece, Gracie (Age 3) and snapped a few pictures after her Bubba headed off to school. Next time I want to capture the whole morning of him getting ready for school and out the door, etc - but I didn't get myself out of bed early enough for all that.

I shot these with a 50mm 1.8 on my Nikon D80. The only work I've done on them is B&W conversion - no cropping or anything.


C&C are most welcome.

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Here's a link to the set.

Thanks for looking.

bdcolen

met wrote:

I wasn't sure if this belonged in People or Street & PJ, but it was inspired by B.D.'s "A Day In Our Life" so I decided to put it here. I spent a bit of time one morning with my niece, Gracie (Age 3) and snapped a few pictures after her Bubba headed off to school. Next time I want to capture the whole morning of him getting ready for school and out the door, etc - but I didn't get myself out of bed early enough for all that.

I shot these with a 50mm 1.8 on my Nikon D80. The only work I've done on them is B&W conversion - no cropping or anything.


C&C are most welcome.

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Thanks for looking.

Very nice set here. I really like your focus on details. I might crop one as a square, and I'd try to burn three in a bit...

WhatSheSaw

#3 caught my eye. Nice set!

met

Thank you for the feedback. B.D., do you think the crop would be more effective if I left the edge of the chair in or took it right up close to their hands? When you say try to burn in #3, do you mean darken some of the bright spots? I don't have Photoshop, so I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing that. I do have Lightroom, though.

bdcolen

met wrote:

Thank you for the feedback. B.D., do you think the crop would be more effective if I left the edge of the chair in or took it right up close to their hands? When you say try to burn in #3, do you mean darken some of the bright spots? I don't have Photoshop, so I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing that. I do have Lightroom, though.

Okay - I've looked again - Ignore what I said about cropping #1 Looking at it again I like the dark space to the right.

And yes, I mean attempting to bring some tonality to the dark areas. If you had Photoshop, I could make some suggestions, and I know Rutt could take them much further. But with Lightroom...What you might try is using the paintbrush in Lightroom, setting a fairly small brush size, taking the Highlight setting down about 20%, and painting those blown out areas. See what you get. You can go over it several times to take it down even further. But there may not be any detail there, in which case...

Again, really nice series.