"Flower children"...CC? Another shoot....

[AMOMENT]

I've been having some fun, being a little creative. Any good? Opinions/cc welcome...(Some of them are warmer, but I this is intentional because it appealed to me a bit.because I liked the look.)

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[3bayjunkie]

The girls are really cute in 1 and 6. I love the girls eyes in 1. They look amazing. I love blue eyes.

Its great to have your own style and techniques. My style is a little too artsy for most people, i guess most people on here dont like my stuff because its not "technically" correct. Well its art not science so i say go with what looks good to you!

Keep shooting your kids

 

[rexbobcat]

I like the first one (the less yellow version, so I guess technically the second) one the most, although the eyes are on the verge of being a little too much.

And, um....holy signature Batman!

I would say that if you use the signature you should downsize it quite a bit.

 

[MLeeK]

I have been gone for what? almost 6 months? You haven't learned anything in that time have you?
What do YOU see here? Put these up with any other portrait of children and WHAT do you see? I see some glowing orange green kids with incredibly over sharpened eyes.



I knew I shouldn't have opened this up. I knew I shouldn't have had that last drop of wine in the bottle.

 

[cgipson1]

#1... WAY too yellow.. and WAY too smooth on the skin! These are young kids.. they don't need it, unless you are going for that FAKE BARBIE DOLL look...

#6 #7 way too yellow..... why??? It does not look VINTAGE, it looks like liver failure!

#2, #3, #4 all look like the WB is off...

#5 is the only mostly real looking skin tone here...

At least they are basically sharp, so you learned how to focus... that's good. You REALLY need to calibrate your monitor, if you think these look good!

 

[cgipson1]

I have been gone for what? almost 6 months? You haven't learned anything in that time have you?
What do YOU see here? Put these up with any other portrait of children and WHAT do you see? I see some glowing orange green kids with incredibly over sharpened eyes.



I knew I shouldn't have opened this up. I knew I shouldn't have had that last drop of wine in the bottle.

At least they are relatively sharp.. so she did learn something!

 

[rokvi]

I would like to see what these look like straight out of the camera.

 

[vtf]

Mommy goggles!

 

[amolitor]

You're doing a superb job with poses. Pressing the shutter at the right time is the most important thing, and you've got that down. Everything else is just fiddling around, minor crap. The nice folks on TPF might, just possibly, disagree with me a trifle on this point, but anyways.

All of what follows in my opinion, your mileage may differ. If there's an idea in here that you like, keep it, put the rest aside:

You're overprocessing everything. They're way oversaturated, the yellow cast looks weird. Someone suggested you've oversharpened the eyes, which certainly looks possible to me.

I know you like it, you're trying an effect out and you're thinking 'crap, that, that looks GREAT! I should do it MORE!'. Everyone does this. What you really want to do, though, is apply the effect, think 'crap. that looks GREAT!' and then back it off by about 50%. Yes, it looks GREAT, you're right. Which means that it's a good thing to do, to get the look you want. But don't do it so much that the effect itself dominates the picture. Saturation is a fine thing -- but the picture is about the kids. Saturate, but back off just before it becomes noticable that you're saturating.

Sharpen the eyes, but back off just before you can tell that the eyes are sharpened. You can still see all the effects when you flip back and forth between the original and the processed, but you CAN'T see it if you just look at the processed image. Now the picture is about the kids, not about the processing.

Make sense?

 

[TamiAz]

Your daughters are so cute and I like your idea, but like everyone else said, your processing is over done and they do look a little soft. Is there any photographers in your area that have photography workshops or classes? You might want to consider that to help you with your focusing issues. Have you looked on you tube? You can find some great videos for learning if classes aren't available.

Keep practicing!!

 

[mommy-medic]

Somewhere in applying all that yellow you missed some baby funk by her mouth. I'd use photoshop for that first.

 

[AMOMENT]

yeah, you know what I don't think I like how warm they are. Want to know something funny...I at first had them with a much more even white balance and without any filters but my husband said he liked them warmer as did a friend of mine. Now, they are not photographers but they know what they like. They could have easil said they liked the regular ones but they said they liked the "sunset look" so I went for it.

I'm going to try and find a local group...it would be helpful but with 4 kids, it's tough.

amoliter...you have been so kind, decent, and helpful! I think you really get it and I ALSO think you would make a great teacher nevertheless, friend =)

 

[AMOMENT]

WATERMARK=AWFUL...lol' ; check .....haha...