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Child B&W portrait by amateur comments please?


j.r._farrar

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What Shawn said, and a little less fill light (according to my

preferences). If this were an environmental photo, the lighting ratio

would be fine as is, I could imagine a second light source. But this

black background gives me no inkling that there might be another

light to the right, it looks surreal, kinda like the fill light on

the Starship Enterprise... where <i>does</i> that light come from? A

big fill card in space? A nearby planet? Solar panels on Voyager?...

t<p> p.s. Nice work for a "beginner". You've been thinking about it

for a while?

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I knew the crop of the arms was going to get me. Problem was I had

the felt draped over a day bed with a pillow underneath to help prop

him up. His hands "sunk" into the pillow and disappeared (you can

even see a bit of black by his right hand). Lesson learned this time!

 

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A lot of contrast came from my cheap scanner on this scan.

 

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The comment on the "second light source" confuses me. I only used 1

light source. It was my flash on a tripod pointing towards 2 white

poster boards I had hung on hangers on the closet door. It was a

small room and the walls were light green. In the 8x10 print I made

you can see a few wrinkles in the background.

 

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Tom, if you could elaborate a little bit? I am guessing that you are

suggesting to use another light on the background? Sorry for the

newbie inexperience... oh wait... I just remembered... I did use a

fill light. I used a white piece of muslin draped over a small TV on

a TV stand directly to the baby's left. I almost forgot about that.

So maybe I could have moved it further away?

 

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oh about the the thinking about it... I read every book I could get

my hands on, then finally just grabbed family and started shooting.

This is hopefully going to be a really fun hobby. I developed and

printed this here at home.

 

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This was my brothers son, and his comment to me when he saw

it.... "black and white, why didn't you shoot color?" .... <sigh>

But working with my nephew was a blast, and very easy to pose for a

7mo old. I've got some other really wonderful shots from that shoot.

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