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Kali


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Challenge: Natural Light Portrait (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: Home office
Date: Jul 12, 2007
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/90 sec
Galleries: Black and White, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Jul 14, 2007

Danika (20 days old) conked out on my shoulder.

Lighting from a nearby window.

My life is dedicated to my 2 beautiful girls; Derbi & Danika.

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Place: 73 out of 366
Avg (all users): 5.9726
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
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Avg (non-participants): 6.0075
Views since voting: 2265
Views during voting: 297
Votes: 219
Comments: 9
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12/06/2007 01:11:48 PM
This shot is precious. DOF is just right, and processing by burning the edges helps to bring focus to the little face in the foreground.
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07/30/2007 10:48:33 AM
Originally posted by Larus:

Greetings from the critique club :)
First off, congratulations on your new baby! I remember those first days very vaguely, funny how our minds only remember them sleeping like this and not of them crying their lungs out, hehe :) Has got me and my wife thinking about making another one and Alexander is not even 5 years old :P

I am not really fond of the way you did convert it to b/w though, did you use the channel mixer and a lot of the red channel and very little of the green and blue channels?

Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.


Thanks! Maybe I just make quiet babies but she doesn't really cry that much :)
5 years is a good age difference, the older sibling is more understanding and very helpful. I couldn't imagine having mine closer together.

To answer your question, yes I did use the channel mixer in monochrome just as you said. Danika was broken out with milia at the time of the picture and converting it any other way made the pimples too prominent. There was only a bit of burning on the edges of the photo to increase the "moodiness".

Thanks for the critique.
07/30/2007 02:25:06 AM
Greetings from the critique club :)

As a parent, I always get a little bit lost for words when I am commenting on photos of children so I am going to keep this pretty short.

First off, congratulations on your new baby! I remember those first days very vaguely, funny how our minds only remember them sleeping like this and not of them crying their lungs out, hehe :) Has got me and my wife thinking about making another one and Alexander is not even 5 years old :P

This photo definately meets the challenge, I like the shallow DOF and that you decided to make this b/w. I am not really fond of the way you did convert it to b/w though, did you use the channel mixer and a lot of the red channel and very little of the green and blue channels? I just feel like this image looks a bit too "Infra Red" to my personal taste. It´s a minor detail though but I think I would have liked it even better if you had a little less IR look to it and had used more of the green channel while b/w converting it. Perhaps I am wrong and you got this IR look some other way, by perhaps dodging/burning but in any case, I think I would have preferred the image with some other b/w look.

Lighting is nice, as is the composition and DOF like I said earlier. Both of your expressions are memorable and sincere and they always look like little angles when they are sleeping :)

Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/23/2007 10:34:40 AM
very nice!
07/23/2007 06:54:39 AM
such a beautiful composition
07/22/2007 07:27:21 PM
I like the soft light and focus for this gorgeous shot.....7
07/20/2007 03:48:46 AM
Don't like the post processing here, easy to spot the lightening on the childs face.
07/18/2007 02:19:08 PM
Very soft, nicely done.
07/18/2007 04:58:30 AM
Fantastic Portarit...
Best till now..
10


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