Newborn shoot

lalalala<3life · Dec 17, 2009

Baby Hailey's photo shoot. She was being such a good little girl. C&C welcome on these photos! I always want to know what's wrong so I can improve!!! Enjoy!!!

The first two are about the same but I edited them two different ways. Which does everyone like the best?

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RPetterson · Dec 17, 2009

I like the first one better then the second one... the #2 looks to yellow.

jackieclayton · Dec 19, 2009

what a sweet baby! i love all her spikey hair! cute pictures but i don't like the lighting...the WB is off... everything looks yellow/orange to me...

IgsEMT · Dec 19, 2009

Having a 2 month old myself I know how hard it is to get the lil buggers to sit still for a photoshoot lol

Sit? My 2.5 months old doesn't want to sit/lay still, while my 2yr old doesn't want to stand still

Its the reason why I went DIY on lighting gear - quicker to set up and doesn't take as much room.

CC:
Overall, I'm not found of colors and/or filters (too tired to see which one it really is).
#1-5, don't really do it for me - kid looks very uncomfortable and awkward.
#6 kid looks less awkward, right hand is in motion blur. and you got a lot of foreground,which to me is distracting
#7, I like - you can see the kid in all her glory, again, colors/filter isn't my flavor. Image does appear to be a bit underexposed though histogram might disagree with me b/c of all the light tones and eyes are sharp.

They seem to be shot at relatively wide apertures, my personal problem with that is #1 most glass have sharpest apertures b/n f/5.6-11 and #2 to shoot with less dof focusing really has to be DEAD-ON-ACCURATE, ESPECIALLY in portraiture photography where ideally eyes should be the sharpest point - something that I don't often see done NICE. Images you posted overall seem to be soft which again brings me to above two points.

Keep on shooting and improving

NateWagner · Dec 19, 2009

One suggestion is to convert these to B&W. Typically babies look much better in B&W primarily because of skin tone issues. If you do leave it in color I would definitely work on the white balance, they seem rather orange in all of them.