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Please critique.

What an absolutely superb portrait! Couldn't possibly be improved in my opinion. I used to use an ME Super and never had any success trying to use it with a flashgun - so more praise is due for such a well lit shot.

Was this image changed in photoshop at all - sepia toned? Just curious how you got the overall tone the same with Kodak Gold film. Great shot.

I scanned a color print. Then I used the silveroxide.com TRI-X filter in Photoshop to bring the image into the proper grayscale.

 

From there, a little burning, dodging, selective focus stuff and finally curves to render as sepia.

 

Hope that helps.

Jim!!

Great portrait!!!

The framing of the face and framing of the shallow DOF make for a great portrait. I also like the child's expression. A shile would be wrong in this photo.

This is one wonderful portrait. Among the best child portraits that I've seen. Good job!

Jim,

 

You have really captured something here. Technically the print is perfect -- and I love how you rendered it in PhotoShop. But aside from that -- the expression on this boy's face -- and the position of his hands! It's simply breathtaking. Bravo.

 

I focus on children's portraits (candid portraits at home/outside) and I am going to bookmark this one for future inspiration. Congrats.

 

Cheers,

Kari

Inspirational, yes indeed! I would love to see more of your photos of children if you have them. I found this photo by mistake by trying to track & find more info about Kari Abate(the poster above me). Sorry if I sound like a stocker. I am new at this. I found one of her posts from Jan 01 and I am very intrested in how her "a lot of windows" shoot turned out. We seem to be interested in the same things...shooting babies and kids. : ) I needed some fresh new ideas and inspiration and Jim-you just gave that to me!

Thanks a bunch!

Gail

greatshot... cant rate it becoz i m a beginner.... but somehow i feel the display of child innocence.