Ch33: Which one do you prefer?

adrian_k

this is my daughter, Samantha - she hates having her photo taken.
Every time I point the camera at her she pulls this face & it makes me smile - which makes her worse!!:D

Here's "Grumpy"


Then there's :lust .
My wife & daughter.


I don't whether I'm seeing these through 'dad's' eyes and the rest of the world sees 'just more pictures of somebody else's kids'.

whatdya think? If there's overwhelming silence, I'll take that as neither.

cheers.

cletus

Both lovely shots, but I think "Grumpy" would be the better choice for this challenge.

My concern is the background. It's pretty busy and it's fairly sharp. Put those together and you have a very distracting background.

There are a couple ways to handle a distracting background. 1) You've got a great subject... would it be possible to reshoot? 2) Alter the image you have to make the background less distracting. The techniques I would try first are blurring the background, lowering the contrast of the background or a combination of the two.

mel

I like "Grumpy". Aside from blurring the background, I'd pull in more on your daughter; increase the Grump Factor. On first pass, I found the snowmen up front distracting.
Good subject for this challenge!

adrian_k

I agree
I'll try some tight cropping.

I also think the b/g is too busy but in my experience a shallow DoF/blurred b/g to look false.
thanks for looking

mel wrote:

I like "Grumpy". Aside from blurring the background, I'd pull in more on your daughter; increase the Grump Factor. On first pass, I found the snowmen up front distracting.
Good subject for this challenge!

thegreenegg

Adrian,
I agree with Cletus in the fact that if she pulls this face all the time you should try to reshoot. I agree that a less busy background would be great so that 'grumpy' is truly the center of the picture!

adrian_k

ok, here's a doctored version
thanks for the feedback.

thegreenegg wrote:

Adrian,
I agree with Cletus in the fact that if she pulls this face all the time you should try to reshoot. I agree that a less busy background would be great so that 'grumpy' is truly the center of the picture!

Yuri Pautov

I like "Grumpy". Well catched moment.

gubbs

I like the "doctored version" of Grumpy, big improvment!

yvonne

Is it just my eyesight, or is it not sharp, though.

mslammers

Door # 3

adrian_k wrote:

this is my daughter, Samantha - she hates having her photo taken.
Every time I point the camera at her she pulls this face & it makes me smile - which makes her worse!!:D

Here's "Grumpy"


Then there's .
My wife & daughter.


I don't whether I'm seeing these through 'dad's' eyes and the rest of the world sees 'just more pictures of somebody else's kids'.

whatdya think? If there's overwhelming silence, I'll take that as neither.

cheers.

Closeup of Grumpy is classic. You can see a smile trying to break out.

adrian_k

you're correct

yvonne wrote:

Is it just my eyesight, or is it not sharp, though.

hi yvonne,
the sony W1(2)/P100 is notoriously soft.

However the pictures my w12 takes responds really well to some agressive USM.
Which I haven't done here, also this is quite a tight crop from the original frame.

cheers,

Khaos

I love the grumpy one, especially after the cropping. Maybe try it in B&W also to play with the contrasts of the snow and purple coat?

Jenny

HAHAHA! Grumpy is definitely a classic! My neice makes the same face for her "happy face". It must be that age. Your daughter's face is priceless.

joechiu

I love the close up shot. It looks great. I like the limited palette of colors in the picture - the purple jacket grabs you with its color and then the hat and face pops out!

I don't understand what people mean by "soft" here -- except for her eyeglasses and maybe the buttons, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of edges to get hard? (Excuse my ignorance - I am just starting to learn this stuff...)

adrian_k

sharp/soft

joechiu wrote:

I don't understand what people mean by "soft" here --

on your camera you've probably got a sharpness +/- option. If you set it to minus, it'll be like zero on your camera.