Lillian

paigew · Sep 13, 2013

My sweet (almost) 4 year old taken yesterday as part of my 365.

day 17|30 ~ day 29|365 [Lillian] by paige_w, on Flickr

frommrstomommy · Sep 13, 2013

shes adorable. i love the processing on it. my only nitpick is i feel like the crop is strange.. her eyes are pretty center in the frame vertically and it bugs me for some reason!

sashbar · Sep 13, 2013

What a wonderful portrait.

eUgalde13 · Sep 13, 2013

Little bit of cropping and its ready to be framed. Good job!!

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ronlane · Sep 13, 2013

It's noisy, the composition is off like Bonnie said, she's not smiling, there is hair in front of her eyes and there is just way too much deadspace.

Yes, I am joking about all of this. I really like the processing as is. For sure an adorable young lady.

Gavjenks · Sep 13, 2013

Why is it so gray? You have almost zero information in the first 30 some lightness values. I'd bring up the bottom levels to make black black here (Tried it myself in photoshop and think it looks a lot better, but will not post since you request no edits)

jwbryson1 · Sep 13, 2013

I really like this (but then again, I really like 99% of your shots), but I think it could use a touch more contrast. I'm a fan of contrast.

Also, looks like very shallow DOF? How did you shoot it?

paigew · Sep 13, 2013

Gavjenks said:
Why is it so gray? You have almost zero information in the first 30 some lightness values. I'd bring up the bottom levels to make black black here (Tried it myself in photoshop and think it looks a lot better, but will not post since you request no edits)

just a phase I'm going through I guess

more contrast (also a lot more crap in the background LOL):

edit: Please open attachment...color looks horrible small!

Dinardy · Sep 13, 2013

I prefer the first edit. I'm not totally against that type of editing style, seems too be sort of popular.

Really cute girl!

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paigew · Sep 13, 2013

jwbryson1 said:
I really like this (but then again, I really like 99% of your shots), but I think it could use a touch more contrast. I'm a fan of contrast.

Also, looks like very shallow DOF? How did you shoot it?

Thank you

It is very shallow. I shot it at 2.2 which I usually wouldn't do but since I'm shooting every day now I'm trying new things to challenge me

. The other day I got this awesome shot of my son at 1.8! I was so proud of myself

But he was very still (watching TV) so I was able to get a really good plane of focus.

14|30 ~ 25|365 [wide open] by paige_w, on Flickr

jenko · Sep 13, 2013

I prefer the first you posted over the higher contrast one.

By subtracting black in the first shot, you soften the image a little, which goes with her gentle and dreamy expression. The higher contrast takes away from that and adds something more emotionally ambiguous, which is also interesting, but I don't think you're really after that.

Cute kids!