Greetings from the critique club :)
I am always not sure what to say when commenting on a picture of someones child so I´ll keep this short and focused on the technical details of this photo.
First of all, your camera settings and perhaps choice of lens for this photograph. I see you used a 28-80mm lens with a small aperture but you own a 50mm 2.0 lens? Don´t know what exact focal length you used but my gut tells me the 50mm lens would have been a far better choice for this photograph. The reason I say this is because you use a 5.6 aperture when 2.0-2.8 would have been a far better choice, both to have less DOF wich is often more pleasant in portraits and also would enable you to set the ISO lower for better quality and also a higher shutterspeed so the image was better frozen, the image either apperas out of focus or more likely has some slight motion blur cause it´s not nearly as sharp as I would have preferred it.
Composition is not bad but I strongly prefer when people shots include the whole chin, cutting off the tip like you do here is not really what I find flattering, I would much have preferred it if you instead framed the shot slightly lower and include less of the forehead and all of the chin.
Other than that, I agree with most of your commenters about this lacking contrast and sharpness, when photos are b/w I personally want much more contrast than I want with color photos. Boost that and make sure the last thing you do after resizing the photo for DPC use is to sharpen it and you should be set cause all in all this is far from a bad photo, just needs a little bit more thought out settings and lens on the camera and a little bit of post processing and it would really pop much more off the screen :)
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus. |
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