Helpful Posts: My best photo from this year's Christmas gathering is this candid of my 1-year-old nephew Lucas.
EDIT: A faux magazine cover using this photo has now been added to the thread.
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Thread: Looking up
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28th December 2014, 07:30 PM #1
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Looking up
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28th December 2014, 07:45 PM #2
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Re: Looking up
Nice portrait.
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28th December 2014, 07:58 PM #3
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Re: Looking up
Very nice indeed, well done. The portrait retouching purists might suggest cloning the few stray hairs that are 'standing up on end' but I wouldn't. I think it is a perfect age appropriate portrait, just as it is.
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28th December 2014, 08:07 PM #4
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Absolutely gorgeous! The image and your nephew!
Personally I adore the stray hairs
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28th December 2014, 08:36 PM #5
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Re: Looking up
For a formal portrait, particularly with a well made up model, the stray hairs would be wrong. But to me, they make a casual 'real life' candid shot like this.
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28th December 2014, 08:56 PM #6
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Lucas is so nice, I love the light on the hair
Was this shot with a flash Mike ?
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28th December 2014, 09:24 PM #7
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Thanks, everyone! All of the stray hairs stay.
No flash, Binnur.
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28th December 2014, 09:32 PM #8
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Thank you Mike, because I don't shoot portraits I might be remembering something wrongly from some videos I watched about lighting in the hair
Originally Posted by Mike Buckley
Thanks, everyone! All of the stray hairs stay.
No flash, Binnur.
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28th December 2014, 10:04 PM #9
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The hair was back lit by the sun. It could have been back lit by a flash in a more controlled situation other than kids playing, as here, in the backyard.
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28th December 2014, 10:10 PM #10
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Wonderful!
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28th December 2014, 10:30 PM #11
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Very nice image Mike, makes me almost feel like I was there.
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28th December 2014, 11:03 PM #12
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Very nice candid in my view Mike. And your subject is adorable
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28th December 2014, 11:37 PM #13
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Good candid shot, Mike, and well framed.
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29th December 2014, 04:30 PM #14
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Great portrait Mike (stray hairs and all
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29th December 2014, 04:35 PM #15
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Continued thanks to everyone!
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4th January 2015, 01:36 PM #16
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The boy's mother did a great job making this faux magazine cover. It's the closest I'll ever get to having a cover shot.
Last edited by Mike Buckley; 4th January 2015 at 01:48 PM.
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4th January 2015, 08:11 PM #17
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Yes, that is well done.
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5th January 2015, 02:33 AM #18
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what a handsome little man! he's going to break more than a few of the girl's hearts. i love the look on his face and the backlighting.
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5th January 2015, 03:20 PM #19
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Beautiful Lucas - and a wonderful portrait! I really love the lighting and his expression.
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6th January 2015, 10:08 PM #20
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A beautiful shot of Lucas captured as he really is and not some ' PS-ed punced up' image of what it is felt he should look like in order to placate the 'cloning cop purists!' Sometimes I think that the cloning brush is one of the worst pieces of software written, in terms of its over application. As they say, 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it!'
The stray hairs are an integral part of Lucas's personna. And just how 'candid' does the shot remain if one takes the cloning clippers to it and gives Lucas a short back and sides? LOL Of course others don't have to agree with me. That is their privilige; the right to be sometimes wrong!
Sheesh, I can feel the waves of indignation sweeping my way already! Should learn to take mrs ucci's advice and keep the old trap shut.Last edited by ucci; 6th January 2015 at 10:15 PM.
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