Wow, what a cracking shot. Love the vibrant colors and the contrasts between the outfits. And I can't believe your little man is walking already!

I love it! and no I haven't been on PC all day ;-)

A fine photo for the family album. The colours pop and I like the way everything but your family is blurred.

Is this part of the series you did for The Ramblers? Regardless, I quite like it. If the background wasn't blurred I think I'd feel differently, mind. How did you saturate the colours so richly without blowing them out of gamut (ie clogging up into pools of solid colour)?

Nice shot, love the colours. Also love how the image is focused and composed.

Lovely!

1/60 sec at 224 mm? You should add an ‘IS mode’ field... ;-)

jennifer: :-)

Jarama: yep, time flies. He's 14 months old now, and it doesn't seem long since I announced his birth.

Jamey: yes, it was shot for part of that commission. As for the processing: a Curve to adjust the contrast and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to increase the saturation in the yellows and blues and decrease the reds.

Arthur: the IS is amazing. With the 70-200 f/4 I would have needed a shutter speed of around 1/200th for this shot.

Contrary to wanting the background sharper I think this composition is great for the following reasons:

The subjects are walking into the picture, your eye follows them across the grassy edge which acts as a focal stop before continuing on to discover the house on the distant plane.

Libby, being taller and on the left, stops your gaze from going further left and then the stronger hues of the clothing bring you back into the picture again to discover more recessional tones to the distance.

I do like this one, David, and the enhanced contrast just makes it special - a good result.

Love the colors. This is just an overall beautiful shot. Great job.

I can tell that this image was shot on an overcast day and you have tried to up the saturation. How come? That grass looks artiicial, as though nuclear waste fell on it. I know as I tried to rescue a similar image. Still, nice composition.

With the 70-200 f/4 I would have needed a shutter speed of around 1/200th for this shot.

Oh, believe me, I know!!

Did you consider the 70–200 f4L IS? With your apparent preference for shooting at >f5.6, it’s effectively the same lens at half the weight...

Bonjour,
Nice photo..and family..I like frame, exposure..(sorry for incorrect English!)

mooch: do you mean this one?

Graham: thanks.

Arthur: I did think about the f/4 IS, but I'd seen such good results with the f/2.8 that I thought I'd go with that one instead. Also, I do like shooting at around f/5.6 to f/8.0 but I suspect that the extra stop will come in handy at some point.

I suspect that the extra stop will come in handy at some point.

Yes, almost certainly.

Having recently splashed out on the 85mm f1.8 (which is really beautiful, and <honest>necessary for a particular job </honest>), my wallet is firmly closed to more lenses.

Definitely.

Probably...

:-)

Beautiful contract, and color!

Very nice colors! Love it...

nice rich colors. your kids have cool names.

Lovely shot. Very nice location and composition. I really like the colours in this image which is a little rare on your site as you tend to post pictures with muted colours or post process them to mute colours. I love the sweaters of the girls. These kind of sweaters were really popular here when I was a kid but I don't see them anymore.

Great family shot! too bad you weren't in it too

love the colourful outfits =D

Great capture. The green settings and the vivid colours of the clothes really go hand in hand, literary! :-)

This is a really lovely family shot. The colourful clothes are very nice in this landscape.
Like the names also ;-)

For me this image exudes very warm feelings. I believe that sometimes we get too close to our images and miss so much of the value of the story.

The colours in this are fantastic

No that was just an experiement, this one:

http://www.moochuk.com/index.php?showimage=114

I take it you agree with the point made?

wonderful image, but i don't like the extrem saturation of the colours.
regards

Very sweet picture!

looks like the softest grass...makes me want to take off my shoes and join them.

Thanks everyone.

tobias/mooch: no, I don't agree. No disrespect, but had I wanted to produce a more naturalistic (flat/desaturated/whatever) version I would have done so.

This is more cute than I can handle.

that's that color of a happy family. saturated with happiness. Great.

Horses for courses I suppose.

Fine perspective, and that saturation certainly pops. Someone in the family does some serious knitting!

Ah, but the poetry that is your admission ("a sow's ear into a silk purse") may be worth the time itself! ;)

Beautiful colours and landscape! Love it.

Oh my word Dave this shot has the green stuff in it!

;-)

Lovely location (where was it) and fantastic DOF that fits the main focus of the walkers just right.

A lovely photo - sorry for the mundane question, but can I ask where the 2 colourful coats were from, as I can imagine our daughters being very much into them...

Wow.. I like the vivid colors in this one !