So this is my favourite picture of my babygirl right now and I really want to print it , however...I can not choose which option I like! Serves me right I guess for not stopping the first time I was happy with it!
your thoughts would be greatly appreciated..
hugs and stuff
kel
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is that even a properly formed sentence? I don't know however I do know that I understand it completely and what it means to me.
These past few months I have been knee deep in photography course, books, websites, printouts and blogs! Trying to gain as much knowledge as possible in how to make my images look their best. I problem I always found I had was the eyes, I wanted eyes to pop without having to do a lot of work in Photoshop. I mean everyone adds pop to their portraits to make them look there best but i wanted to catch the light in the eyes so much so that when you look close you can see reelections in their pupils!
Practice, practice, practice...the kids are probably tired of the camera being in their face which is why in the following examples you will not see one smile haha.
First though some good resources I found worth a read and explained simply how to do this...
http://paintthemoon.net/blog/2012/04/finding-light-making-eyes-pop/
FANTASTIC SITE, FANTASTIC ACTIONS AND EVEN BETTER TUTORIALS ALL IN ONE PLACE.
http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/2009/03/coffeeshop-eye-bright-pspse-action.html
lots of free actions and detailed tutorials
and lastly, I have been reading understanding exposure 3rd edition. This helped alot!
so heres my examples good and bad..
this is my edited version with very little work in photo shop, love that her eyes stand out so much
if you look you can see the brightness of her eyes, I took this with light in front of the subject with diffused window light.
this was taken in cloudy conditions with little light at all. I moved him around until i could see the catch lights in his eyes and snapped away. I love that if you look into his eyes you can see me stood there taking his picture. I used paint the moon perfect portrait to brighten up the eyes and to sharpen the image a little
as you can see you can still see how bright the eyes are and you can still see me in his pupil. Finding good light allowed me to reduced shoadows on his skin, keep his eyes nice and bright and then edit this in 1 minute to get the above reult.
And last but not least
taken in the golden hour with side light and brick wall behind her. Once again ran perfect portrait, to eliminate redness, sharpen and brighten the eyes.
obviously this image was cropped to enhance the area I wanted to capture . Edited with coffee house powder room, paint the moon portrait and florabella luxe II
So this week, I am continuing my path of fully understanding exposure, working in manual, and also trying out spot metering..what are you doing?
Hugs and stuff
Kel
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Olivia...or liv :-)6 weeks old...adorable, and let me pose her! I got some beautiful pictures of this little beauty and here's a sneak
this pose she strucj herself after her grand ma kicked a bucket and startled her haha.
i will be back in the week with some recipe fun, crafting goodness and some wedding photos.
hugs and stuff
kel
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had the pleasure of photographing the beautiful baby Riley, who was a diamond and didnt even so much as flicker throughout the whole session.
I spent the night before crocheting this batman cape and hat set which I love . This is the result...
And heres another cute image from the dy, I got to use my new backdrop and flooring :-D
can't wait for the next one
hugs and stuff
Kel
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Baby Ella was just 4 days old when I got to take her pictures, and even though she was a 9lb baby she was still so small and very content. We haad a ball, not only did I get to catch up with a old but very good school friend I also got to play with pretty hats and tutus , what more could a girl ask for!
Heres a few of the images...
The teacup shot took alot of soothing and placing inch by inch whilst rocking and shushing haha but it was well worth it!
The top image was created using masking in photoshop, and mum had hold of babies head to ensure it was safe!
I am addicted to newborns!
Hugs and stuff
kel
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I had the pleasure of photographing the lovely poppy this week who was three weeks old. Boy was she a wriggler, and she didn't want to sleep that is for sure. After doing a few techniques such as wrapping and white noise to settle her and a snuggle from mum she went off and was good as gold as I moved her around, although it was difficult to pose her as she woke easily! So we settled for the use of props and changing of blankets and hand position to vary the styles...
I have a 5 days old on Wednesday which will be my youngest baby and i'm hoping to get a shot of baby in a sling! fingers crossed
hugs and stuff
kel
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Tuesdays are mummy and vaeh vaeh days...the other two are at school and she has the day off nursery.
I wanted to test some fabrics I picked up off the £1 shelf (yes really) to see how they reflected light etc when taking pictures. So whats a better way to do it than get my beautiful 3 year to strut her stuff, and boy did she enjoy it!
f1.8 50mm canon lens used
I love how they turned out and am looking forward to Saturday when I can involve the other two bambinos in a family shoot!
Friday I have a itty bitty newborn shoot :-)
hugs and stuff
kel
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Boy oh boy...etsy is a terrible place to stay if you want an early night!
Searching props for newborn shoots and look at this little beauty
How SUPER cute ;-)
photo taken from etsy
I am rather in love with it! the putit and the baby and somehow it found its way into my basket..oooppppsss
excited much
hugs and stuff
kel
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