Is the skin colour ok?

[hhodder]

Could the colour be improved in processing? Is the composition ok? Should I have been further away This is my great nephew and he very rarely stands still. The camera used was a Canon 459D ISO- 100 Exposure- 1/320 Aperture- 3.2

From 2011-01-20

[fernampo]

Hi! Beautiful guy!!!!!!!!!!

All considerations are particular point of view, ok?

1) Skin tone is OK to me.

2) I'd try increasing contrast a little to make it bolder.

3) I'd try portrait, once it looks like a still picture and is a little bit tight to my taste. I like landscape portraits when it adds the subject "future" or "past" (i don't know how to say, it, hehehe). Well, when the picture shows where the person was or where the person is going to be.

4) I think you could try to get down a little bit. In children, it's common that the head looks like a little big (forehead) and taking pictures on your knees would reduce this effect.

It seems you used a tele lens, right? Can you post the focal lengh?


Hugs from Brazil!

[hhodder]

The lens used was my 50 mm prime thanks for the comments will try those mentioned.

[onform]

This is a really nice natural portrait of the little man. The only points I would raise are that it is a touch under exposed but only a smidgen, it is a tad slanted to one side but if it wasn't for the bricks it wouldn't matter and if this is a crop I would personally place him to the right of the frame reason being I prefer to see the dark, unlit, side of the face at the edge of the frame so that the negative space opens up into the light if that makes sense?!?!?

[SwissJon]

I agree with onform and fernampo.. There's great potential to get a lovely photo from this. Without seeing the subject it's difficult to judge the skin tone, looks perfectly fine to me, but the best judge here is the person who sees him.. You..

[ishafizan]

i hope u dont mind experimenting as i'm exploring and familiarizing myself with some tools

1. color/saturation/hue adjustment in viveza. sharpen in cs4. crop in picasa. felt there were too much open space that dont add anything to the pic


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2. using nik color efex pro: post processing, dark lighten center


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3. same thing but another tone in color efex


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question: Could the colour be improved in processing?
answer: most definitely. opportunity to apply the artistic side

heh, i timed myself. ~15min. woohoo
btw, ive deleted the files from my HD. not sure what the rules are, so i removed them.

[hhodder]

Thanks so much everyone it is amazing how much difference even just a little tweaking can make. Next job is learning post processing. Thanks again