Light in a dark time

I appreciate your comment. I see it should have been candlelight.

Sidsel

Candle light would have been nice, but if it was my baby, I'm not sure I would have allowed it to be that close to real candles.

Artistically this is a great shot.  The reflection makes the image powerful, as does the contrast of light and dark.  The contrast of light and dark, (along with the fact that you're photographing a baby), is what makes this an exceptionally difficult shot to get technically perfect.

The following is only how to technically make the shot better and in no way takes away from the artistic qualities of this image.  It appears that your EXIF data has bees scrubbed so I will comment without knowing ISO, Shutter Speed, etc.

There is quite a large amount of blur and it's hard to tell if you were focusing on the baby, the lights, or the reflection.  Some of the blur is motion blur from the baby moving and the only way to remedy it is a faster shutter speed.  Not knowing what ISO you were using, I can't say whether or not you would have benefited from increasing your ISO and shutter speed to help the blur from the baby moving.

There doesn't appear to be any blur from camera shake, so I would guess that you have either an exceptionally steady hand or were shooting from a tripod...one or the other is essential for low light photography like this.

The rest of the blur is related to focus.  I'm not sure exactly what you were focusing on, but when really examining the photo it is a bit distracting.  I think part of the issue is that my eyes want to focus on the reflection of the baby, but the focus appears to be on the lights.  It makes the eye wander around the image with little to focus on.  This could have been remedied by shooting at a slightly smaller aperture, (difficult given the conditions), or focusing on something other than the light bulbs, (also difficult given the conditions.)

Overall, a moving shot, although it leaves a bit to be desired technically.

Hope this helps

RS

I really appreciate you taking so much time in commenting on my picture. It was really helpful. As you say, it's difficult to photograph a baby constantly moving, and with the lightconditions even harder. The room was dark except for these lights. i didn't want to use a flash because that would spoil the photo. Yes, I used a tripod, the ISO was 1000, the aperture 2.8, and the shutterspeed 1/50. As you see, difficult to get it sharp.The focus was on the nearest bulb. I didn't notice the reflection in the window when shooting. It all went in a hurry as it often does with small children. The baby is my graddaughter Selma, 7 months old.

Best wishes Sidsel

great moment and well set up.

as the other guy said ,the refletion makes it well done my freind