My wife Terri and son Conor. Perhaps not a traditional portrait but the subject matter speaks to me! The day was overcast and we were just playing around really. I was taking some shots with a mind to see what sort of "poses" worked and then was going to do it properly on Sunday. The weather was too bad on Sunday to do it so I was stuck with the Saturday shots where the background isn't what I wanted.
I used my 50mm 1.8 lens for this and I must say I like the results of this lens but it is frustrating having to step back so far to get the shot I want in the frame...I guess this is my first step down the path towards one of those fancy lenses with the red ring on them.
Editing Steps: Convert from RAW
* exposure -0.55
* Hilight contrast -23
Rotate
Imagenomic Portrait filter
Neat image
On background
* Gaussian blue
On People
* Contrast +11
* Lightness +2
* Lightness, reds +18
* Colour Balance, +12, 0, 0
On part of Conors face
* Colour Balance, +31, 0, 0
Some dodge & burn
Some cloning
Crop
Flatten and resize
USM
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This photograph moved me. Great composition, you filled the frame, isolated the subjects... I can almost see the connection between their eyes. The image could be a bit warmer though. Good stuff!
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