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A little mate...

Postby owen on Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:50 pm

Comments welcome.

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Postby Geoff on Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:25 am

Priceless shot there Owen! Wow...this is definately a keeper, great for a 21st shot, framed and signed by his parents/mates etc! Would love some EXIF/lens details! Flash etc!? How did the colour one turn out?
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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:27 am

Great one Owen! Definitely a pic for the 21st ;)
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Postby owen on Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:04 am

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm thinking I'm going to get it printed out for the parents, apparently they've never been able to get a shot of him smiling.
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f - 1.8
1/160 sec
ISO 800

The colour one is pretty good, the blurred background has some nice soft colours in it, but I thought I'd try it as a black & white and I like the way it has turned out. I'll post the colour version shortly :)

No flash either, just available light in a community hall.
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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:12 am

Great lens ain't it ;)

I can't take candid shots of toddlers to save my life esp if I have to try and capture them smiling. Hard task and you've done it beautifully.
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Postby owen on Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:15 am

Here's the colour version minus the cloning out of the glasses and the thumb.

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Postby Catcha on Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:38 am

What a cutie, top shot
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Postby Geoff on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:40 am

Wow for ISO 800 there is very little/no noise...well done!
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Postby owen on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:47 am

Thanks Geoff, Catcha.

The noise is quite okay, and in one b&w version I was working on I actually added more noise because I didn't think there was enough. However, I decided to go for the smoother version with a slight glamour blur to it.
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