Head shot

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited August 13, 2004 in People
Since I have just given my opinions on your work I felt it was only fair to post one of my recent pics. This is an available light shot of one of my grandaughters.
Harry
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    It's one of those pictures that makes you wonder what she's thinking. she could be concentrating on something, dreaming or sulking ne_nau.gif , lovely picture, (shame about the wooden post though :D)
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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    Welcome HarryB wave.gif

    Good shot! As gubbs already pointed out the post in the background is a unfortunate distraction. I wouldn't worry about it too much though.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    She's really well lit, Harry, and she has a nice expression. I especially like how you can see her entire face, even though she's looking down. Nice lighting.
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  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    Thinking girl
    Harryb wrote:
    Since I have just given my opinions on your work I felt it was only fair to post one of my recent pics. This is an available light shot of one of my grandaughters.

    I agree that it makes you wonder what she is thinking about. You can see the gears turning in her head. :) How's that for implying motion in a still photograph?

    I don't mind the wooden post, however. It doesn't feel, to me, as if its growing out of her head, since it is so off-center of her head. It gives me a sense of location though, it lets me know she is on a porch. For that reason I like it, even if it is merged with her head.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    gubbs wrote:
    It's one of those pictures that makes you wonder what she's thinking. she could be concentrating on something, dreaming or sulking ne_nau.gif , lovely picture, (shame about the wooden post though :D)
    Thats the problems with grandkids, you have to grab the shot when its there. I tried cloning out the post but wasn't happy with the result (lost some of the strands of her hair). My maskpro plug-in has a tutorial on masking hair. When I have the time I'll try it out on this shot.

    Harry
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2004
    The post doesn't bother me. It may even add something good. It is blurred, so that separates it from her head.

    If you do use that magnetic tool to isolate her from the post to take the post out, feather it, more than you would have expected. The helps me with the hair, can't give you the numbers, am not a numbers person.

    But I do like the photograph. Nice looking girl lost in thought.

    ginger
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