My Parents

[Palachandra]

Used below settings:

Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 27.5 mm
ISO Speed: 80

Time of the day was evening. I tried hard to get smile on my father's face. It worked when I told him a joke!!

Used large aparture to get shallow DOF. This helped me to blur the background and my MOM. This is right from camera and no edit. Any suggetion?

[odark30]

Nice shot! Now if you want to practice your photoshop skills, here is a tuortial on fixing distortion from eyeglasses:
http://www.prophoto.typepad.com/bonu...al-fix-op.html

[kirbinster]

Did you really want to blur your mom (I won't tell her)? If not you might try shooting at a higher ISO (80 is fairly low), you should easily be able to go up to 200 with no grain which would let you rasie the f-stop (number) for more depth of field.

[PLouie]

What I do like about it is the cinematic quality. It looks like a still from a movie. It's as if your father was telling a story looking away while your mother stood there watching and listened. If you cropped it to a 16:9 aspect ratio, it'd be even more like a movie still.

[brianfarrell]

That's a good picture - it tells a story.. what that story is of course is up to the observer. I like the shallow dof.

The only main criticism I have of it concerns the clutter in the background... something needs to happen to make it less distracting imho.

[AndyC]

I like this.. it looks like a very natural moment...

[andy2710]

What PLouie said...I really like it...you do people really well.

[Palachandra]

odark30,

Thanks a lot for that link. I started usign GIMP, however not getting much time to work on that! Shall give a try and repost the result.

kirbinster,

I took some other shots with different composition and DOF... Here I just want this effect. lol after taking this shot I took one more individual shot.. So not a problem with blur.

brianfarrell,
That is window in the background. Probably I should have considered the wall instead.

PLouie, AndyC, andy2710,

Thanks for your kind words and encouragement.

[jiminyClickit]

Palachandra,

Like so many things, it depends on what you wanted this to be. If intended as a portrait, it's well composed and shot, though your Father's eyes could use some lightening. I could imagine doing the same with a portrait of your Mom, featuring her with a smaller background spouse.

[Palachandra]

JC,

Thanks for your suggetion.

I shall try next time, when I had been to my hometown.