Tommy

[Reschsmooth]

Well, it has been ages since I have posted an image and even longer since I have posted an image of a subject other than my children. Here is a photo of one of my children....taken last week at my sister-in-law's house in Brisbane. Their house is a amazing as a photo venue - beautiful and plentiful natural light, excellent 'decor' for backgrounds...shame it's wasted on non-photographic people.



I thought about cropping the right hand side of this, and tried it, but found that it felt cramped. I don't mind Tommy having space to 'look into'.

This is one of their spoodle.



Both images in available light and minimally retouched.

C&C appreciated.

[Geoff]

Patrick Patrick Patrick...this image of Tommy is one of the best I've seen from you! It's encaptulating, innocent and magical all in one. The use of available light and his gaze to (? whatever it is off camera) is fantastic. This is begging to be printed big-ish OR printed to canvas or some of that fancy ilford paper you often waffle on about

I really like this image. If I were to offer some critique, I'd see if you could bring up the light a tad on Tommy's left eye and left side of his head. I also think this image would work well in B&W too, can we see how you convert this and how it compares?

The dog shot is nice, but it doesn't compare to that of Tommy's shot. Fantastic work, and thanks for sharing. Any more?

Well done son!

[Big V]

That first shot is going to be a treasured family keep sake for sure and deservingly so.

[dawesy]

What they said, get that printed pronto!

[Reschsmooth]

Thanks gentle people.

I have already printed the one of Tommy at A3 size on Ilford Smooth Pearl (haven't been game to get the Gold Fibre in A3 size yet). It came out beautifully. This will be framed and hung next to one of Alex I printed A3 as well.

I was going to try a B&W conversion last night (when I should have been working), but time is what I ran out of.

Geoff, I will see which other shots I have that I think are worthy of posting.