Black Eye Elliot

elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
edited April 19, 2006 in People
Howdy friends!

My son Elliot tripped today, and got himself his first black eye. It wasn't to bad though, and he cried for 30 seconds, that's about it. Then, when eating lunch, the black eye really "popped" in the light from the window, and I couldn't help but thinking, twisted minded as I am "Boy, it looks like his gone his first boxing round" *Haha* Then I remebered that I actually have a par of boxing gloves........
Life is like a lot of boxing rounds, very very uneven to the start. But by doggedly fighting on, eventually you'll get better and better - and one day - WHAM-SLAM-BAM - you get your first Knock Out!

Mind your guard / Matty

*JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE*JOKE*
Ok! Ok! He didn't trip! I fought him! Buy hey, I gave him a fair fight, with my left arm behind my back, and I had no glove
to proctect my hand!
*JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE**JOKE*JOKE*JOKE*JOKE*



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  • JimMJimM Registered Users Posts: 1,389 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Obsolutely amazing!!!

    Terrific Shot!

    The lighting, expression, pose... all dead on!

    And we thought you could only shoot beautiful women well! rolleyes1.gif

    BTW, how do you do the background like this? What is its color and what do you do to light it?

    Thanks.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Very cool, Matty!
    Great idea/implementation!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,954 moderator
    edited April 17, 2006
    Terrific shot. thumb.gif

    Cheers,
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  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Hehe! Thanx you, Jim! :):
    Well, occationally I point my camera at my children! mwink.gif

    Elliot was sitting in his baby chair by the kitchen table, facing the window, that was the only lightsource. The background is the kitchen wallpaper, very light gray, almost white. To get the background smooth like this, I did a copy of the background layer and ran it through Neat Image, then I erased around Elliot. Then I did some buring (using "burn tool"). That's all there was to it!

    Regards / Matty
    JimM wrote:
    Obsolutely amazing!!!

    Terrific Shot!

    The lighting, expression, pose... all dead on!

    And we thought you could only shoot beautiful women well! rolleyes1.gif

    BTW, how do you do the background like this? What is its color and what do you do to light it?

    Thanks.
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Thanx Nikolai! :):

    Nikolai wrote:
    Great idea/implementation!thumb.gif
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Cheers, rsinmadrid! :):
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Terrific shot. thumb.gif

    Cheers,
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    What great storytelling! Can't believe you got your son to pose like that, it's perfect. Really a nice job, you are a very talented and creative man. thumb.gif
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  • JnicholsJnichols Registered Users Posts: 223 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    This is a terrific shot - very creative!
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  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Awww poor little fellow.

    What a fabulous shot. Just perfect. Something for his scrapbook that he can look back on and laugh.
    Dana
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  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Thanx! Haha! Believe it or not, but the tricky part was to get the gloves on, and to get the pic before they were off again. :):

    wxwax wrote:
    What great storytelling! Can't believe you got your son to pose like that, it's perfect. Really a nice job, you are a very talented and creative man. thumb.gif
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Thank you, Jen! :):
    Jnichols wrote:
    This is a terrific shot - very creative!
  • Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Mattias
    Fantastic idea and perfect realization!
    Yuri
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Thank you, Yuri! :):
    Yuri Pautov wrote:
    Fantastic idea and perfect realization!
    Yuri
  • markosmarkos Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Fantastic shot, he will be very proud.
    Marko
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  • MelPMelP Registered Users Posts: 131 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Poor fella
    That is a terrific picture.

    Mel
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    What an amazing shot! It doesn't look posed at all, the lighting is perfect, what more can I say? You took "good" advantage of a bad situation (hope he's ok?) and came out with a winner!!! Helps that he's a cutie, too, I guess! thumb.gif
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
    Thank you! :):
    markos wrote:
    Fantastic shot, he will be very proud.
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
    Hehe! As I wrote, I gave him a fair and clean fight! mwink.gif
    MelP wrote:
    That is a terrific picture.

    Mel
  • elfving73elfving73 Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
    Thanx! Yes, he is just fine! Now, two days later, it's not visible any more. thumb.gif
    saurora wrote:
    What an amazing shot! It doesn't look posed at all, the lighting is perfect, what more can I say? You took "good" advantage of a bad situation (hope he's ok?) and came out with a winner!!! Helps that he's a cutie, too, I guess! thumb.gif
  • digitalpinsdigitalpins Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
    Wow thats and amazing and awesome shot you have there, I love everything about it.thumb.gif
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