After posting this shot I promised that I’d take a ‘nice’ shot of our daughter to make up for the fact that the majority of her sisters now had decent portraits on this site. But, what with one thing and another, I hadn’t got around to it.
This shot was taken this afternoon while she was watching television. One problem with taking a decent portrait of this one is that she rarely sits still long enough to get her in the frame, let alone compose a decent shot, but she’s been a bit unwell the last few days so she’s a little more sedentary than usual ;-)
As with most of my portraits this one was acheived by adding a blurred layer set to overlay mode. The side effect of this is a bump in contrast, which has blown out the highlights a little, but in this case I think that works quite well to isolate her face.
camera capture date aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO focal length image quality white balance
Canon G5
2.09pm on 25/4/04
f3.0
1/5
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
50
28.8mm
RAW
auto
Great portrait Dave. Do you just do a straight blur effect on your soft-focus layer or do you use GB?
comment bymyla at 07:50 AM (GMT) on 26 April, 2004
Absolutely lovely shot.
Hope she's feeling better :)
comment by djn1 at 04:11 PM (GMT) on 26 April, 2004
Thanks.
Gwen and myla: yes, thank you, she's much better today.
Jon: sorry, I should have been more specific - I use a GB (Gaussian Blur) set to around 12px on the full size image. If I've already reduced the size I find that around 3 or 4px works quite well.
comment byRolle at 04:15 PM (GMT) on 26 April, 2004
It looks such a pro-image. I can't hardly believe you shot it while she was watching television. Excellent!
comment byEmily at 11:34 AM (GMT) on 27 April, 2004
After posting this shot I promised that I’d take a ‘nice’ shot of our daughter to make up for the fact that the majority of her sisters now had decent portraits on this site. But, what with one thing and another, I hadn’t got around to it.
This shot was taken this afternoon while she was watching television. One problem with taking a decent portrait of this one is that she rarely sits still long enough to get her in the frame, let alone compose a decent shot, but she’s been a bit unwell the last few days so she’s a little more sedentary than usual ;-)
As with most of my portraits this one was acheived by adding a blurred layer set to overlay mode. The side effect of this is a bump in contrast, which has blown out the highlights a little, but in this case I think that works quite well to isolate her face.
capture date
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
focal length
image quality
white balance
2.09pm on 25/4/04
f3.0
1/5
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
50
28.8mm
RAW
auto
juds one word........ Fantastic
Your children are breathtaking. I'd love to see a photo of the photos you have displayed in your home (just curious which are your faves...)
Hope your girl is feeling better.
Just enough blurring to make it perfect.
Beautiful!
Great portrait Dave. Do you just do a straight blur effect on your soft-focus layer or do you use GB?
Absolutely lovely shot.
Hope she's feeling better :)
Thanks.
Gwen and myla: yes, thank you, she's much better today.
Jon: sorry, I should have been more specific - I use a GB (Gaussian Blur) set to around 12px on the full size image. If I've already reduced the size I find that around 3 or 4px works quite well.
It looks such a pro-image. I can't hardly believe you shot it while she was watching television. Excellent!
lovely portrait. so full of innocence.
and i love the soft focus.
really lovely.
She is really beautiful! Excellent picture.
found this shot linked from your current shot, just wanted to say it's a great portrait!