baby portrait

Sleepyd · 16 May 2006 at 12:37

I've learned that baby photos are really difficult indoors for three reasons -
1. It's dark
2. Babies move all the time
3. Their moods change constantly

Last weekend I was using my manual focus 50mm 1.7 @ 1.7 to get 1/60th of a second and I managed to get this and a few others, what do you think?

yak.h'cir · 16 May 2006 at 12:45

Beautiful! Nice capture. I love how engaging the eyes are. I think it would have been a bit better if the hair was a little bit more in focus but I suppose not easy in low light!

Richard T · 16 May 2006 at 12:47

like it. Like it a lot

nolimit · 16 May 2006 at 13:18

i like it very much. maybe bit too much sharpening. I like babies soft.

CSGAS · 16 May 2006 at 13:47

nolimit said:
I like babies soft.

That sounds.... wrong.

nolimit · 16 May 2006 at 14:38

CSGAS said:
That sounds.... wrong.

sorry came out wrong.

AndyBorzi · 16 May 2006 at 14:50

am I going to be the first to say:

'awwwwwwwwwwww'

ahem, forgot, I'm a bloke....ummm nice baby you got there, ahem

Love the expression and the fact the eyes are looking directly at you. I don't like the processing of the picture though. As nolimit said, babies should be soft.

AB

hoodmeister · 16 May 2006 at 15:05

awesome eye detail, great shot as a whole - but the edges look way over sharpened to me, and the rest has a nasty mottled sort of look - noise filtered?

cyKey · 16 May 2006 at 15:45

hoodmeister said:
awesome eye detail, great shot as a whole - but the edges look way over sharpened to me, and the rest has a nasty mottled sort of look - noise filtered?

Agreed. Great shot on the whole, just a couple of niggles that were probably due to the 1/60th in low light.

Mohain · 16 May 2006 at 15:55

Have to echo the majority here. Great shot and my first impressions were 'Wow, cool!' but the oversharpening does take something away from it.

Sleepyd · 16 May 2006 at 15:59

Thanks for the replies; Yes, I had to sharpen it up quite a bit (which I normally hate doing). The only area in focus because of the tiny depth of field are the eyes. I did noise filter it because the sharpening brought out a nasty look to the skin. To be honest I thought this gave it a bit more impact.

When I get home I'll post the original to see what you think of the transformation.

Sleepyd · 16 May 2006 at 19:11

Here's the original.

Sleepyd · 16 May 2006 at 19:14

And here's my favourite: