Great expression and great color on the shirt. Do you think the vivid color and brightness of the shirt draws the eye away from the somewhat darker left side of the face? I might be tempted to do something about the metal bar in the lower left, perhaps blur it slightly to match the green one? Might be fun to try to clone out both of 'em, just to see what it looks like? Just my thoughts, personal tastes vary so much. You sure did a nice job of getting him at a good moment, and the composition is very dynamic.
Greaps,
The color balance looks a little cool (blue) on my monitor. I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick color balance with the eyedropper in levels. I used the bright white flower on his shirt. Does this look better on your monitor? If you don't want to leave this up, I'll gladly take it down.
Greaps,
The color balance looks a little cool (blue) on my monitor. I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick color balance with the eyedropper in levels. I used the bright white flower on his shirt. Does this look better on your monitor? If you don't want to leave this up, I'll gladly take it down.
TML on my Sharp 1810(Gateway FPD1810) LCD, I prefer your version to Greapers - I agree that his image is slightly cool and the whites look crisper and whiter in your version.
It has a lovely soft light and captures a pleasant view of the young man, but to my eye this is a snapshot, as the background does not contribute to the image, but is slightly distracting.
I think a better image could have been captured in this lighting with more careful inspection of the background. But it is easy for me to say this after the fact, shooting kids can be a kind of pot luck affair and we have to be happy with what we capture sometimes. The other alternative is to place the kids in front of a pre-chosen background and pre-chosen lighting and shoot them as they play there.
Hand holding a 500 mm lense, you get what you can. The bars are a minor distraction, My wife said so too and she is always right. (you never know when she might be watching)
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I like it a lot. I think some of the best portrait photography is that which catches people in purely natural poses; like this one.
Good work.
Kent
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The color balance looks a little cool (blue) on my monitor. I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick color balance with the eyedropper in levels. I used the bright white flower on his shirt. Does this look better on your monitor? If you don't want to leave this up, I'll gladly take it down.
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It has a lovely soft light and captures a pleasant view of the young man, but to my eye this is a snapshot, as the background does not contribute to the image, but is slightly distracting.
I think a better image could have been captured in this lighting with more careful inspection of the background. But it is easy for me to say this after the fact, shooting kids can be a kind of pot luck affair and we have to be happy with what we capture sometimes. The other alternative is to place the kids in front of a pre-chosen background and pre-chosen lighting and shoot them as they play there.
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tml,
You are right, too late tho, printed and entered.
we will see how it does.