Recent Baby Sesion

Here are some recent ones, C&C Always welcome.
She is just Under 6 weeks old

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Well, I'm amazed that you could get a 6 week old to lift his head! I seldom separate a baby that young from his mother.

 

no one?

 

I like your posing and framing and cropping. Your color tone just seems weird to me though. Did you process them that way on purpose? I think they look a little too dull. How do they looked with the contrast and saturation boosted? The eyes also seem a little dark and glassy in most of them...they need some catchlights. I'm not sure how to add that in post processing, but I know it can be done.

 

#1- I like the idea of this but you should clone out the black over the baby's shoulder and maybe shoose a better angle.

2-I also like except the baby looks like it is falling. (although that could just be me!)

#3-I alright but a little unimaginitive. It looks like something parents could have taken themselves.

#4-I'm gonna be honest and say that the baby looks dead, there is something very very weird about this pp Although, I like the setup of the shot, including the picture of the parents is cool

#5-Same advice as in #1

All that being said, babies are the hardest things to shoot (IMO) and the best thing you can do is to keep trying. I never shoot babies this age, they are useless. (I don't mean that in a bad way but they are too old to sleep through the session and to young to sit up by themselves and play) Don't give up and just keep trying.

 

I dont think the baby looks dead in #4, but you could warm up the skin tone a little. It seems like the baby is in the center and maybe could be cropped. I like that one though. I dont like the towels ... at all. I like 1 if you could get rid of the towel look and warm up the skin a tiny bit. I like the idea of 3 but thing a differnet angle would be better next time

 

i like them, they feel soft which is appropriate with a baby...man what a widows peak on him!

 

Are some of these HDR? I get a strange tonal quality. I like it in the last one, but not in #4.

 

There is PP but not HDR, it is just a tenique I use from time to time

 

here is the first one a little bolder