 Stacy Wasmuth |
Am I doing this right?
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Stacy Wasmuth |
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Ann Widner |
I love it, Stacy! It's the baby's expression that makes the photo. I love close-up face pictures. I sometimes tend to crop out the chin and top of head in pictures too. It's great to get close. Sometimes I get in moods where all I want to do is get in real close, but then I do have to remember to back up once in a while. And as for the crispness, in my opinion, the "feeling" of the photo is more important than total sharpness. I think this picture is perfect just the way it is. What a happy baby!
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Shawn Wilson |
I'm pretty new myself, and I've asked a lot of people the same things about framing. Most photographers will tell you to crop in close for portrait work because it's all about feeling. It's not so much about what gets cropped off, ie. it's not by definition bad to cut off an ear or chin. It's all about the feeling of the photo and whether how you framed it enhances or hurts that feeling. I've got one picture in my gallery that I've gotten a lot of compliments on. I actually shot it wide and cropped it down after getting a lot of suggestions. The final result gets smiles and compliments all the time so I must have gotten it right. It's the first picture in my gallery at the moment called '...the greatest of these is love...' I too love your baby picture. If you're concerned with the sharpness, you might try an 'unsharp mask' in Photoshop if you have it, or a sharpening filter in whatever photo editing program you might have. I don't think the photo currently NEEDS any adjustment, but it's your photo.
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Shawn Wilson |
I used these settings: Amount: 50%, Radius: 4.0 pixels, Threshold: 0. This by far isn't the 'best' one could do to sharpen it, but I think it goes a long way toward showing you that for this photo you don't want to sharpen it. I think the softer version you have is very well suited for a baby photo. The skin softness is lost when you sharpen it and while that can be fixed seperately, I think if you start messing with it you won't be as happy with the end result as you are with the current pic. I could see you making all these adjustments and ending up back where you started because it looks best that way. My humble opinion, of course. Hope this helps.
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Kerry L. Walker |
Not too close but do turn your camera vertically. Too much space to the left side for a tight face shot.
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Connie J. Turner |
I think the shot is perfect. If a shot makes you smile when you look at it then you must be doing something right. But then again I'm not a real "feshional" but if my opinion accounts for anything, I'd set leave it be!
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Stacy Wasmuth |
Thanks for responding - sorry it took me a while to get back! :) Shawn, thanks for taking the time to do the unsharp mask - I didn't mind, and I think you're right. I forgot to put that I had already used the sharpen feature once - I think I tried sharpen more, but it was too much. I don't do much with unsharp mask - I guess I haven't figured it out enough yet. Kerry, I wish that I had taken the same shot vertically to compare. I guess I was just trying to emphasize the fact that he's looking so sharply to the left (and I kind of like the gingham in b&w that's in the space to the left). And thanks Ann and Connie - glad you liked it and it's helpful to know that you didn't think it was in TOO close. :)
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
-Not too close but do turn your camera vertically. Too much space to the left side for a tight face shot.- follow a rule if the rule gives you what you want. stay away from rules to give a feel or mood to it.
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