Halloween costume portraits

TristanP

I posted one of these in the whipping post for suggestions but thought I'd share all of them. Smugmug gallery.

lynnma

TristanP wrote:

I posted one of these in the whipping post for suggestions but thought I'd share all of them. Smugmug gallery.

adorable kids and costumes!! your wife does a great job! I think these shots would make nice family postcards or gift cards but you gotta do something about that background.. I have the same problems.. Andy is always yelling at me for my tacky backgrounds. You could duplicate the shot, blur the background copy and extract the kids onto it.. or you could try to clone out the wrinkles in the sheet but thats gonna be hard.. I love the colors and idea but I find the wrinkled sheet just too distracting.
Lynn

Dee

I have to agree with Lynn

lynnma wrote:

adorable kids and costumes!! your wife does a great job! I think these shots would make nice family postcards or gift cards but you gotta do something about that background.. I have the same problems.. Andy is always yelling at me for my tacky backgrounds. You could duplicate the shot, blur the background copy and extract the kids onto it.. or you could try to clone out the wrinkles in the sheet but thats gonna be hard.. I love the colors and idea but I find the wrinkled sheet just too distracting.
Lynn

All I saw was that very sharp and very wrinkled sheet! Then I saw the cute children in their costumes.

You could try putting the sheet in the dryer for 5 minutes to see if some of those wrinkles come out -- but if you're handy in your retouching program you can soften them or substitute a different background entirely.