Round 'n Round

I like getting the ratings, but if you don't mind, leave a short

comment to let me know what you think. Thanks.

This brings back such powerfull memories of childhood for me. And it obviously took a lot of forsight to set it up right. I usually dismiss pics of children, but this one gets to me. Only technical thing is that the highlights on the cheek are a bit blown, but that's far from fatal in this image. I just love it.

Nice and original! Congrats!

I think this may be a little oversharpened. Less sharpening would blend the image together more and intensify the movement effect. Just my opinion.

Peter

Hmmmm... I know only one man so far who took such pictures... Are you that man, by any chance...? :)

on the technical standpoint i agree the image might be oversharp, not to the point of being unpleasant thouhg, but the effect is noticeable. On the emotional side, you caught my soul with this! i always loved my father when i made me fly and in this picture i can see again that seens of happyness and freedom. regards.

 

This is a really cool photo. Out of curiosity, how did you take this picture if both hands were being used to hold onto the child? Did you somehow attach the camera to your face and turn on the self-timer? Perhaps you have four arms or exceptional foot-eye coordination?

If this was inspired by Terry Way's work, I think you've gone one better by not using flash.

how have you managed to do such a "crazy" and shot in full motion??

I like it a lot

its an amazing shot!

Cute shot, but it seems a little over sharpened to my eyes.

To Edward: I'm glad it gave you that feeling. The contrast was increased, maybe too much for some people's taste, but the dead grass and dull light brown didn't look that good.

 

To Peter: As for the sharpness, it was done to give impact to her otherwise motion blurred face. Maybe it's a bit too much?

 

To Marc: I'm not sure if I'm who you think I am. I would be surprised if you have heard of me before because I am purely an amateur. Unless you frequent the panasonic talk forum at dpreview, I'm probably somebody else.

 

To Noboru: I had my dad spin her around while I kept my arms around his chest holding the camera and shooting the image as we both spun in unison.

 

To Sandeha: I don't know who Terry Way is. I have had this image "in my head" for a while. I would spin Katie around and wonder what it would look like if I could get a picture of it. Finally I got around to experimenting and came out with a winner.

 

I also noticed that somebody gave it two 3/7s. I think it's pretty cheap to leave an obviously low rating score without giving some explanation as to why they felt that way. I think somebody was just being spiteful, or maybe trying to move the image down on the high rating page.... If I give a low rating, I'm gonna give a reason why, maybe that's just me.

 

Thanks for everybody's critiques. Keep 'em coming..

She looks happy. Original and very well done. Kind regards.

I've seen work like this from him about 5 years ago.He fastened the camera to his head and used selftimer.

 

Your's is still good but not original.

Don, thank you for your critique. I've never heard of Darwin Wigget, or seen any of his work. I never thought or indicated that I was the first to ever take a picture like this. I imagine that about anything you or I can think of shooting has probably been shot before. Maybe my 'method' for making this shot is original, even if the actual type of picture has been done before. After all, you said Darwin strapped a camera to his head. I didn't even think of that. Thanks for the critique though.

I didn't mean to take anything away from what you've done here as it's very good.My "not original" comment was,I guess,aimed more at Jan's comment about this being original.

Darwin is a Canadian photographer that has a number of books published and have written many articles on photography.Here's a link to some of his work.

 

http://www.photoportfolios.net/portfolio/pf.cgi?a=up&pi=DARWIN

Here's his website.

 

http://www.darwinwiggett.com/

I checked out his website. He really has some amazing photos there. I found one he did of the kid. Makes me wish my grass was green and full of dandilions too... Also, I noticed he used a faster shutter speed. Maybe if I used a faster speed, I wouldn't have the problem of her face becoming blurry. Check out my photo album to see my other versions of this image. www.pbase.com/mike_curtis

Neat. I've seen a similar shot done on one of those spinning platforms (the kind you see in playgrounds), which probably makes it easier for the photographer...

 

And I think you might want to tone down the sharpening a little bit: especially with the high contrast between the dark facial features and skin, too much local contrast really starts to make things look unnatural. If you're really worried about the ground in the background, try masking it so that you only apply sharpening to that, and not your daughter.

 

Cheers -

Josh

The sharpening was needed on the face more than anything d/t the blurriness from motion. As far as masking, that's one thing I have yet to master in PSP 9. I'm still learning.

I just looked up Wigget's picture. Technically it may be superior, but it's too just cutesy. Your picture has an immediacy and emotion to it that is very rare in kid pics. Of course, you've got a better model than he had. :)

So funny and bautiful. WEll done!

Biliana

Very well done...puts a smile on my face

Very creative and well done!

Very well done. nicely captured