These are the hands of Tim and Rowan. I love her typical little kid dirty fingernails - there is no keeping this kid clean! Turned out pretty grainy. Nasty halo from trying to sharpen it to an acceptable focus - woe to the basic editing rules. Boring background & uninspired shot but I still like it from a Mom's perspective. That's never good for the score but I had to enter something for WPL!
Shot in Raw next to one of our windows for light. RAW conversions. Elements - levels, neat image, unsharp mask, hue/saturation, selective color, brightness contrast, crop, border, save for web
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I can't believe this got a 6.1. THANKS!
I really wanted to reshoot it to get a cleaner shot but my model was throwing a fit, screaming, whining, rolling on the floor - it was quite a spectacle. I would have thought he'd be embarrased to behave like that in front of his two year old! ; ) Hee hee - maybe I have my story switched a bit!
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don't you love "cooperative models." I've got one of those, too. (I'll let you figure out if it is Bernard or the kids). I like the message in this. Did you try it in bw and see what would happen? Because there is not a lot of contrast between the background and hands, bw may (or may not) help.
Can't go wrong with that illustration of love :) It's beautiful! And I love the realism that her dity little fingernails give the photo too. Like it's not set-up.
This would have got a much, much higher score from me if it wasn't for the very visible 'halo' around the lower side of the hands. It is also a shame that the child's finger nails are not clean - a minor detail, but one that does have an effect on the viewer. Nonetheless, a very pleasing composition.
Nicely done with the tight crop. I think this one might work better if it had a different color background to offset the color of the hands a little more. Also seems like there is a slight halo around the hands, especially to the left side. A product of resize or sharpening?
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