Dreaming

[lynnma]

comments invited (good and bad)

http://Lynn.smugmug.com/photos/15437190-L.jpg

[4labs]

Love the way it is composed but I think there isn't enough contrast between the subjects and the backround..

[spockling]

Lynn, great shot:clap Could you try to darken the background to give some contrast between the faces and the bacjground? Make them become more of a focal point.

see http://super.nova.org/PhotoClass/PhotoClass01_04.html

[rutt]

The composition works, you can't beat the subject matter, nice catchlights in the mother's eye, which is especially hard to get in a profile like this. I suppose if we want to be picky about it, we'd rather have the mother's eye in perfect focus than the baby's. But maybe not. All in all, a picture I would be proud to have taken.

As to the background contrast issue, that's probably something that could best handled durig the B&W conversion. Lynn, please, will you give us access to the ORIGINAL color image? I'll bet there is room for technical post improvement in this really really fine image.

[lynnma]

Lynn, great shot:clap Could you try to darken the background to give some contrast between the faces and the bacjground? Make them become more of a focal point.

see http://super.nova.org/PhotoClass/PhotoClass01_04.html
yes.. thanks guys.. I do need to do that.. I was loathe to touch the babies face to change the background .. I'll work on it.. thanks..

[lynnma]

Here is another version in color. Rutt I'll load up the original to my smugmug and you can play with ithttp://Lynn.smugmug.com/photos/15440493-L.jpg

[rutt]

Let's start with a credible color version. I used LAB curves to move the flesh tones of the original into the realm of possible and increase the contrast a bit. I don't have Lynn's crop here:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/15443253-L.jpg

I don't know, you could still want a B&W converson, but maybe not so much now. I'll work on that next.

[ginger_55]

Lynn, I loved it from the moment I saw it!

ginger

[JimFuglestad]

Personally, although there isn't much contrast between faces and the background, I think it's okay if that's how the scene really looked. When I first saw it, it conveyed to me that the mother and child were in a room with a lot of good light coming in... like a sunroom on a bright afternoon. It's as if the warmth of the sun beam helped ease the child to sleep.

The mother's stern look is a bit more confusing to me. I'm not sure if she's exhausted or just daydreaming. I like her expression better in the the color versions.

A great photo with lots of emotion. Nice.

Jim

[Allen]

One thing I noticed is that in the BW version she's looking up and off
into the distance. In the colored version she's looking at the baby. Wierd.:uhoh

[lynnma]

One thing I noticed is that in the BW version she's looking up and off
into the distance. In the colored version she's looking at the baby. Wierd.:uhohtwo seperate shots Allen... second one is better I think..:D I get absorbed in working on the first shot I convert from raw and then looking through the rest of them find a better one .. do it all the time.. :dunno compulsive.:rolleyes

[gubbs]

One thing I noticed is that in the BW version she's looking up and off
into the distance. In the colored version she's looking at the baby. Wierd.:uhoh
I thought they were different shots......

lovely shots Lynn... I much prefer the original colour to the adjusted version, its so much warmer, suits the mood :clap

[Allen]

two seperate shots Allen... second one is better I think..:D I get absorbed in working on the first shot I convert from raw and then looking through the rest of them find a better one .. do it all the time.. :dunno compulsive.:rolleyes I see that now, my DW pointed it out to me:rofl. My brains not functioning at 100%, been fightin' a sinus effection. I like the BW but the eyes looking away is distracting.

[jwear]

One thing I noticed is that in the BW version she's looking up and off
into the distance. In the colored version she's looking at the baby. Wierd.:uhohyou are right ,two dif. shots look at the eye lash up in one down in the other .did not see that at first [good eye :rofl]Jeff

[Michiel de Brieder]

Lynn,

the 2nd shot does it for me... It is far better than the first IMO, the picture is 'more defined' if you know what I mean :D

Thanks for sharing!

[T_S__Garp]

I saw the photo posted as a colour shot. Maybe I'm just a fan of B&W but, you've managed to edit the photo to show the beuaty of youth and the mystery of innocense.

Nice work, beutiful shot! :encore

[lynnma]

I saw the photo posted as a colour shot. Maybe I'm just a fan of B&W but, you've managed to edit the photo to show the beuaty of youth and the mystery of innocense.

Nice work, beutiful shot! :encorethanks all.. I'm not quite happy with it.. but then.. are we ever?:rofl I appreciate your feedback no end. Thanks again.

[lynnma]

thanks all.. I'm not quite happy with it.. but then.. are we ever?:rofl I appreciate your feedback no end. Thanks again.still working with these shots... husband says no.. I'm not sure.. there's something about it I like.. but .. I'd like your thoughts..
http://Lynn.smugmug.com/photos/15503996-L.jpg

[Michiel de Brieder]

My thoughts:

I like: composition, mood, sharpness/softness, intimacy and crop
I dislike: the tint, that's all, I don't like the purplish/brownish/pinkish tint...:dunno I would like to see this one in a duotone with perhaps a tad of green :D

maybe something like this? :dunno

[lynnma]

this is a violet/black duotone... maybe it's better..

picture won't load for some reason.. was'nt that good anyway..:dunno