This is my neice Maryn who was Christened this month in her Great-Grandfather's Christening gown. I did some portraits of her for my family. I had her on a black piece of duvatyn in front of two windows, she was essentially in a corner. I used the on-camera fill flash to fill her in. In Photoshop I darkened the black so that it was completely black and I got rid of an errant piece of background that wasn't black. Other than that there was very little processing done, just the simple contrast and a little USM.
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Nice picture of the baby and the gown, but I think this would have been better if he was in a chair, or on someone's lap, or lying on something that shows some depth. As it is, he looks like he's in free-fall. 8)
A lovely gown and what a wonderful tradition to carry on! With the pure black background it appears as though the baby is floating or standing - neither of which seem quite natural. Not sure how else to do this, though.
Cute baby. The photo is very nice. The baby's face seems to be a bit out of focus but it doesn't take away too much from the photo. All and all this is very good portrait.
personally i feel the large quantities of black in the frame quite oppressive, and it leads to two other problems in that it gives the sprog no sort of dimensional plane (is he floating, suspended?) nor does it give him any sense of personality. the picture aslo looks like it has artefacts of some over sharpening, especially round the head. afilny, with the sprog looking away i feel totally detached freom the subject, and can't connect. 4.
cute idea but the focus seems to be on the bottom of the gown and nto the face where i think it shoudl be even if you are tryign to show the gown to have the face blurred is disconcerting. 5
The head focus is too soft, compared to the bottom of the garment. Add choice of perspective and it almost looks like the subject is not the baby but something else... I don't find this one appealing for that reason.
I would prefer if the baby was looking at the camera. also I am not a fan of how they appear to be floating. very nice setup for a baby portrait though.
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