A few kids and testing a watermark

met

My niece and nephew had a couple friends over to stay the night on Saturday, so I snapped a few pictures. I love photographing kids.


I downloaded LR/Mogrify, so I was experimenting with borders and a watermark on these. I have a few different incarnations of this watermark. I'm still up in the air of what I want my domain to be and how that would correspond with my watermark. C&C on photos and watermark appreciated.


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Photosbychuck

Nice captures

The water mark is a little big for my taste.



Take Care,
Charles

divamum

Check the WB in that first one - looks a little red - and in the last one it seems the focus caught her fingers instead of her eyes. Those are nits, however - you caught great expressions from all of them!

I checked out Mogrify which looks like a great program, but couldn't get it to run properly even with the Imagemagick patch etc installed. What system are you running? (I'm on a Win vista 32 pc).

adbsgicom

divamum wrote:

Check the WB in that first one - looks a little red - and in the last one it seems the focus caught her fingers instead of her eyes. Those are nits, however - you caught great expressions from all of them!

I checked out Mogrify which looks like a great program, but couldn't get it to run properly even with the Imagemagick patch etc installed. What system are you running? (I'm on a Win vista 32 pc).

MET, really sweet shots. The first one is a bit too magenta, through.

Diva, through LR2, I've only had issues with the 'you need to exit export and come back in' when I change some mogrify settings. I've been successful with 64-bit Vista and 64-bit Win7.

divamum

adbsgicom wrote:

MET, really sweet shots. The first one is a bit too magenta, through.

Diva, through LR2, I've only had issues with the 'you need to exit export and come back in' when I change some mogrify settings. I've been successful with 64-bit Vista and 64-bit Win7.

That's exactly what it does, but then it won't work when I come back in. I gave up and uninstalled it

Sam

I love #2!!!

Sam

adbsgicom

divamum wrote:

That's exactly what it does, but then it won't work when I come back in. I gave up and uninstalled it

Did you try email Timothy Ames about the plugin?

met

divamum wrote:

Check the WB in that first one - looks a little red - and in the last one it seems the focus caught her fingers instead of her eyes.

adbsgicom wrote:

MET, really sweet shots. The first one is a bit too magenta, through.

Thanks for the honest feedback. When I went back after I processed them and looked again, I was thinking the same thing. I'll make a few adjustments on it when I get home tonight and post a revised version.

met

Sam wrote:

I love #2!!!

Sam

Thanks!

met

divamum wrote:

I checked out Mogrify which looks like a great program, but couldn't get it to run properly even with the Imagemagick patch etc installed. What system are you running? (I'm on a Win vista 32 pc).

I'm running XP on my Dell XPS laptop that's about 4 years old. I'm not sure if it is 32-bit or 64-bit. I'll have to check it when I get home. I ran into a couple little snags trying to use it, but as Andrew said it is usually when I try to change a Mogrify option after I have some others selected. When I've just canceled and reexported everything was still all there and it worked fine.

met

Ok, here are 2 different versions of the first one. I wasn't sure if I took my second attempt far enough in removing the redness. But then when I did one step farther it seemed slightly too blue.

Which do you guys prefer?

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divamum

I think I prefer B

I still can't get mogrify to work. I tried again since y'all seemed to find it was ok, but now it just says "can't mogrify - aborting export". I'm not sure I need borders and watermarks in LR enough to mess around with it, although if anybody stumbles on a fix for this particular issue, by all means share!

kidzmom

The colors are GREAT on these. Nice processing! Did you do much? Up the saturation? Nice. I like the watermark. I've been playing with one myself (it is a preset) but for PSE. It automatically sharpens, resizes and adds border, drop shadow or rounded edges (of your choice). I love that it is a few clicks and it is done...perfect for web uploading (to a blog etc).

met

kidzmom wrote:

The colors are GREAT on these. Nice processing! Did you do much? Up the saturation?

Thanks. I didn't really up the saturation. I can't remember what exactly I made some adjustments on, I think a few on the shadows and hues. Then I just made a preset in Lightroom that I've ended up using quite a bit.

Here's a some from this past Saturday that I took at our family dinner. I've really been focusing on using both my camera and SB600 on full manual. I used the same preset as the others with a few minor adjustments to tweak each photo. C&C are appreciated.

1. I needed to take the fill light slider back just a smidge more on this one. I didn't really see how soft her eyes looked because of that until I saw a larger version.



2. I wish I had hit the focus right on her face versus on his, but I thought it was still sweet.



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5. London Bridge turns into a dogpile.



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7. I'm personally not a fan of kids playing video games this young, but I thought they looked so cute and serious playing together.

adbsgicom

I really like these, 2/4/5 in particular.