Sis in Law's family

anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
edited January 14, 2013 in People
My wife's sister and her family are visiting. I took them out for a quick family session. WOW! Her boys are a handful and then some. I managed to get a few good photos including this one. She's out with my wife right now so she hasn't seen it. I think she's going to love it.

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  • coolpinskycoolpinsky Registered Users Posts: 211 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    nice clear photo.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Is it too contrasty? I'm looking at it now and looks a bit too contrasty to me.

    I've a had a few beers though so maybe it's the beer goggles.
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  • PhilD41PhilD41 Registered Users Posts: 171 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Maybe a hair, but it wasn't my first though. I quite like it. The blacks loose a lot of detail, especially between the youngest boy and his mom. It doesn't really distract me though.
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  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Looks great to me Alex. Light is nice, as is the background. Eyes appear sharp and seems like a nice natural pose, which sounds like may have been a challenge. Although, I may have a few beers myself a little latter. So will see how it looks with the beer goggles.
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Very pleasing shot. thumb.gif I agree with your concern about contrast. I think you just need to back off a wee bit on your black, and I'll guess that will take care of it. Will also separate the middle boy's shirt from Mom's jeans.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Thanks. Yeah, now that I've had even a few more beers, I can see that its a bit too punchy so I back it off just a tad:

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  • PhilD41PhilD41 Registered Users Posts: 171 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2013
    Perfect! - Looks like a very happy family!
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2013
    She is thinking of printing this in B&W. I prefer the color version but what do you all think of this conversion? Been a while since I really did any B&W so wanted to get some other eyes on it:

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  • PhilD41PhilD41 Registered Users Posts: 171 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2013
    I am with you, I like the color one better two. It looks good in B&W though. I will be honest, I don't have a good eye for B&W. I don't see anything distracting or blown out. There are so many ways to go with B&W and I tend to think each looks good, until I see something slightly different.
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  • LightsearcherLightsearcher Registered Users Posts: 202 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2013
    Great picture, love the natural expressions and deep colors.

    Regards.

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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2013
    If I were going to use the B&W rendering, I'd crop tighter.
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  • Gaby617Gaby617 Registered Users Posts: 218 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2013
    Although I prefer b&w over color in general I do like the color version better (maybe as suggested above the b&w might need a tighter crop). It seems she naturaly likes the b&w so I would suggest if you haven't already process both versions to give her cause it be a ashame for her to take the color and just print in b&w. Im not a pro or anything but I feel just converting a color image to b&w @ print doesn't have the same effect as originaly processing it in b&w.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2013
    PhilD41 wrote: »
    I am with you, I like the color one better two. It looks good in B&W though. I will be honest, I don't have a good eye for B&W. I don't see anything distracting or blown out. There are so many ways to go with B&W and I tend to think each looks good, until I see something slightly different.

    Thanks Phil. Like I said, I prefer the color image for this one. I don't think there is enough color range in the background for B&W in this image. It really loses a lot of depth when converted. I've tried a couple of different conversions and nothing seems to "really" work. Tried the different channels and even blending conversion done on different channels and all just seem blah.
    Lightsearcher wrote: »
    Great picture, love the natural expressions and deep colors.

    Regards.

    Marcelo
    Icebear wrote: »
    If I were going to use the B&W rendering, I'd crop tighter.

    Thanks Marcelo.
    Gaby617 wrote: »
    Although I prefer b&w over color in general I do like the color version better (maybe as suggested above the b&w might need a tighter crop). It seems she naturaly likes the b&w so I would suggest if you haven't already process both versions to give her cause it be a ashame for her to take the color and just print in b&w. Im not a pro or anything but I feel just converting a color image to b&w @ print doesn't have the same effect as originaly processing it in b&w.

    Gaby... definitely will convert to B&W and give both images to print.

    I actually have a different shot of them that I think works better in B&W. I'll post it up later with a few of the other shots.
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