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Baby pic

Postby antman on Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:23 am

Here's a slightly cliched picture of our new daughter, Sarah. She was born last week, weighing in at a tad under 4kg.

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The image was taken with Sarah (1 week old) on a Jetstar blanket on our lounge room floor. Light source was the sun through slightly tinted windows. No backdrop used.

C&C appreciated as usual.
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Re: Baby pic

Postby Geoff on Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:38 pm

Beautiful shot Geoff, I can't really criticise it as I think it's pretty good already.
Perhaps have a go at increasing the contrast a TAD and see how it looks. Just increase it so that you lose the creases in the material...
Congratulations on your new baby girl too!
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Re: Baby pic

Postby craig.rohse on Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:50 pm

Congratulations !!!

I like this one, maybe crop it a little to get rid of some of the black but not to much. How did you get the background so black???

I took this one a few weeks ago:

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Re: Baby pic

Postby antman on Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:55 pm

Thanks Geoff and Craig.

To answer you question Craig, the light was quite bright so my shutter speed was quite high, so that made the background dark. A bit like a reverse silhouette. Also had a fiddle in lightroom with curves and a vignette.
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