My mates gorgeous little boy

FL00DY

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As far as photography goes, I've had such a brilliant weekend. I just used my D90 and 18-55mm kit lens the for above, but will post some pics of some Rugby using my friends 70-200 f2.8 cannon. Never used such a massive lens before, but really enjoyed taking the above shots. C&C as always most appreciated :thumb

FL00DY

hhmmm 100 views and second page They aren't that bad are they?

adbsgicom

I generally don't comment on baby pix since I don't really understand the genre (babies in planting pots and all). Very cute little boy, definitely!!

As for photos, most of the shots seem a bit soft. 3-5 are underexposed.
I think 6 & 7 are your best shots, but look on 6, the drool looks like your focus point, and the eyes are less in focus. 6 & 7 win for me because the color is good (the b/w could use a little more pop IMO), and the b/g isn't distracting.

They are all keepers since they are recording life and time. Try to fix the exposure and color balance on 3/4/5 and keep at it. You might get a little sharpness back by playing with the unsharp mask in PS/CS and see what you get. Hopefully you shot camera RAW and have more options in the editing flow.

FL00DY

Thanks very much Andrew. One thing I have problems with, and something I don't like in most photos is the blown out backgrounds you get when shooting on a bright cloudless sky like I had in the background. So 3-5 I tried to play around with the colours a bit to try and minimize the white sky, perhaps I'll have another go at it. Looking at 3 & 4 again, I could have cropped a bit tighter, lots of gear in the backgrounds which couldn't be helped.

The b/w I agree with, I don't do many conversions but might have another play with. I'm still only using LR for all of these, I'm yet to get into PS.

As for RAW, I'm not shooting in RAW. I did so once and need to get my head around the image sizes first Going away this weekend so I might give it a go.

adbsgicom

FL00DY wrote:

Thanks very much Andrew. One thing I have problems with, and something I don't like in most photos is the blown out backgrounds you get when shooting on a bright cloudless sky like I had in the background. So 3-5 I tried to play around with the colours a bit to try and minimize the white sky, perhaps I'll have another go at it. Looking at 3 & 4 again, I could have cropped a bit tighter, lots of gear in the backgrounds which couldn't be helped.

The b/w I agree with, I don't do many conversions but might have another play with. I'm still only using LR for all of these, I'm yet to get into PS.

As for RAW, I'm not shooting in RAW. I did so once and need to get my head around the image sizes first Going away this weekend so I might give it a go.

Disks are cheap. Go with RAW. It has more headroom so if you are overexposed by a bit, you can recover; you aren't being penalized because your camera chose a bad WB and then you lost data in the jpg conversion.

In LR recovering the sky is a bit harder but with the adjustment brush and some patience you can do a fair job in some cases.

B&W in LR can work really well. Set the greyscale mode, and use the exposure/fill/recovery and black level to tweak the levels and get your spread, fine tune the contrast curve and if you want play with the greyscale sliders for the mix if you need to.