Now you have told me that, I think that foot looks odd. Like she is part amputee and it's a sock covering a stump.
What am I doing wrong? Pictures lack the "wow" factor.
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Now you have told me that, I think that foot looks odd. Like she is part amputee and it's a sock covering a stump.
Going to have to also add that while these may be RAWs, suggestions of editing them to improve them seems a fruitless exercise to me.
As has already been pointed out, they lack the eye contact to make them engaging, the second photo is especially bad for this, sorry.
I'd just reshoot them, with the other key factor which has rightly been pointed out being better lighting. Further to that, I'd also set my camera up with spot metering and take a reading from the face of the baby, especially with it slightly shielded in a hood. Everything is quite beige so the camera is likely metering for that in a wider metering pattern, so best to aim for the best exposure of the face that you can get.
As has already been pointed out, they lack the eye contact to make them engaging, the second photo is especially bad for this, sorry.
I'd just reshoot them, with the other key factor which has rightly been pointed out being better lighting. Further to that, I'd also set my camera up with spot metering and take a reading from the face of the baby, especially with it slightly shielded in a hood. Everything is quite beige so the camera is likely metering for that in a wider metering pattern, so best to aim for the best exposure of the face that you can get.
lol same here, have you tried going the other way and removing both the feet (in the picture, not actually on your child
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I disagree. I think feet look fine.
Only other tip I can give to the OP that hasnt been mentioned is subject isolation. I guess it's hard to blur the background with F2.8 if the child is laying flat on a surface but if you have an un-interesting background try and get as much separation as possible. If you cant achieve this with distance and depth of field, then do everything else in your power to achieve some kind of serparation. In the case of the test photos the colours of the subject and the background are too similar which are not helping you.
As you can see in AHarvey's post, the child there is also photographed on against an uninteresting brown background, but there is separation between the carpet and the focus area (eyes) which give allows you to blur the background - and to compound this, the child is wearing something colourful.
tl;dr - background of the image is just as important as the subject.
Only other tip I can give to the OP that hasnt been mentioned is subject isolation. I guess it's hard to blur the background with F2.8 if the child is laying flat on a surface but if you have an un-interesting background try and get as much separation as possible. If you cant achieve this with distance and depth of field, then do everything else in your power to achieve some kind of serparation. In the case of the test photos the colours of the subject and the background are too similar which are not helping you.
As you can see in AHarvey's post, the child there is also photographed on against an uninteresting brown background, but there is separation between the carpet and the focus area (eyes) which give allows you to blur the background - and to compound this, the child is wearing something colourful.
tl;dr - background of the image is just as important as the subject.
It is all about light.
Amen to that, it matters not what you are photographing the light is always the key and as loads of people have pointed out the light is whats wrong here!
You either need more natural light (go outside or gets some reflectors or both) or you need to add some light and a decent flash that you can aim is a great starting point.
Afer that work on posing, if you are struggling for ideas go and look in flikr or the websites of professionals find the poses that look good and use them to your advantage.