3 week old

[Swanner Photography]

Weighing in at 5 pounds. I have only worked with few babies. This little baby was the smallest of them yet. Any Critque would be helpful.

It was lite bit a med octogon softbox.

Manual settings

Exposure Time: 0.0050 s (1/200)

Aperture: f/11.0

ISO Equiv.: 400

[Swanner Photography]

Bump!!!

[Niresangwa]

Why did you elect to go with a portrait crop, especially what seems to be a non-standard one, on an image that lends itself naturally to landscape?

Though I"m a fan of negative space, it's not well used here.

Secondly the range of contrast is a little harsh. You have blindly, hanging-on-to-what-little-details-hey-have white highlights amongst otherwise greyscale shadows.

I'd much rather see the lights powered down and be softer.

The catch lights are huge, to the point that they completely dominate the eyes... they almost look like irises. Irises with no pupil are scary looking.

The dry skin on the kids arm and back... I'm not a parent, and not a maternity photographer, but as someone critiquing your shot, I'd rather see it cloned out.

The whole image looks soft too, at least in the image you've embedded, which is quite large. Te URL you've linked the image to is just the photobucket homepage, so i can't look any closer.

Finally, not an inspiring pose particularly. Of course poses are popular for a reason, that doesn't mean it doesnt feel vanilla.

[Swanner Photography]

Thanks for the feedback.

This shot was shot portrait and not landscape.

[Swanner Photography]

Ok So I did some editing to it.

As this helped?

[Swanner Photography]

Oh I did leave the dry skin bc I think that all newborn babies has this ( my three did and everyone I have seen) so I thought It was natural.

[sk66]

Originally Posted by Niresangwa

Why did you elect to go with a portrait crop, especially what seems to be a non-standard one, on an image that lends itself naturally to landscape?

Though I"m a fan of negative space, it's not well used here.

Secondly the range of contrast is a little harsh. You have blindly, hanging-on-to-what-little-details-hey-have white highlights amongst otherwise greyscale shadows.

I'd much rather see the lights powered down and be softer.

The catch lights are huge, to the point that they completely dominate the eyes... they almost look like irises. Irises with no pupil are scary looking.

The dry skin on the kids arm and back... I'm not a parent, and not a maternity photographer, but as someone critiquing your shot, I'd rather see it cloned out.

The whole image looks soft too, at least in the image you've embedded, which is quite large. Te URL you've linked the image to is just the photobucket homepage, so i can't look any closer.

Finally, not an inspiring pose particularly. Of course poses are popular for a reason, that doesn't mean it doesnt feel vanilla.

Who are you to be critiquing a pro? You're just a hack!

Sheesh...it's obviously fantastic!

[britthuffman]

The second crop does work better for me. Too much negative space in the first one. I'm fine with dry skin because most babies have it. I also helps that it's black and white. At that age the skin is still all splotchy. I agree the pose isn't particularly creative, but it was reasonably well executed (I've seen that shot a hundred times where it looked liked the baby was about to fall) And at that age there isn't much to do with them.

[SusanH1970]

The crop is much better in your second version, and I like the smaller catchlight in baby's right eye. His left eye still looks really wonky, though. I honestly wouldn't show this one. Do you have any others in this pose?

[Swanner Photography]

Originally Posted by SusanH1970

The crop is much better in your second version, and I like the smaller catchlight in baby's right eye. His left eye still looks really wonky, though. I honestly wouldn't show this one. Do you have any others in this pose?

The other shots I have, her lil arm is hanging and I didnt like that. In this shot I put her arm up on her face. The lighting in her eyes is the same as this one though.