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Was DOF too shallow?

Just a touch, but this doesn't seem posed with a < week old baby. Lovely picture. Only problem for me is the pink mass on the right. It has so much space on the image but doesn't add anything to the image. I find it irritating that I don't know what it is. maybe a split focus filter might work with a backdrop of the maternity ward?

 

Beautiful baby though. Someone must be very proud..

the pink of the back is actually red paint of the wall, with strong shine from the window, i have no idea why it turn pink in the bottom if you look at the top right that is the true color. No studio props. And you are right there were no posing, just a 90degree CCW rotation as she was laying at the time. By the way, newborn vision is 20/400 so legaly blind and even i belive she was looking at me, technically she was looking just in front of her.

Not too shallow, Mark. As you might know, I am a great fan of very shallow DOFs. With all respect to Andrew, I do not agree with his comments regarding DOF or the use of the pink 'negative' space. I really like it and I feel the inclusion of the colour (and the extreme off-centre placement of your daughter) works wonderfully well to portray this little angel's emergence from her cocooned existence in her mother's womb. In short, I like it! M :)