Texas Hill Country Family Portrait

[eleazarparadise]

Fellow DPS Photogaphers,

What do you like about this shot and more importantly what don't you like. The image was shot in Raw with Vivid in my Nikon. I removed the blemishes, cropped it, sharpened it, and added noise reduction. I don't like our hand placements and I wish my daughter smiled, other than that I like the picture.

Please give me honesty.

[SuperDan]

the hands are the hardest... many a books i read, there could/is chapters just on hands...

overall though.. the lighting seems a bit drab. i would boost it up a bit...

youve done good compositionally speaking

ive come to find that for portrait work, shooting in vivid gives a little too much saturation than just setting that to portrait for that... but, sometimes i will switch depending on the mood.. its a pain going through the menus, but a few extra minutes doing that could save a little editing time

[eleazarparadise]

Originally Posted by SuperDan

the hands are the hardest... many a books i read, there could/is chapters just on hands...

overall though.. the lighting seems a bit drab. i would boost it up a bit...

youve done good compositionally speaking

ive come to find that for portrait work, shooting in vivid gives a little too much saturation than just setting that to portrait for that... but, sometimes i will switch depending on the mood.. its a pain going through the menus, but a few extra minutes doing that could save a little editing time

Thanks Dan. I'll use your suggestions and I like your work.

[windrider86]

Do you have your exif information handy?? Knowing your camera setting is important to know in offering you a good critique