Baby's Feet- what else do I do?

[hsmmq]

While babysitting my nephew I decided to try and take some pictures of his feet (which is very hard while awake - constantly moving.) This picture was the best of the bunch which is far from what I had hoped to capture. After converting it to B & W and adding a vignette was hoping to have this printed and framed to give my niece as a gift. Not sure what to do to make it any better or if its good enough to have printed.

Any comments are appreciated.

Thanks from a not yet amauter photographer.


Camera: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: On, Red-eye reduction

[Downtown]

Other than the fact that theirs eleven toe's on the poor little gaffer I think you nailed it (no pun intended).

DT

[SaraJane]

I think the blanket and fluff on it is a bit distracting. What would it look like blacked out?

[bratha]

I kind of like the blanket in there... I agree the fluff is slightly distracting, but I think the blanket gives the photo character, and it looks great as it is.

Good job.

[CaptainNH]

I like the lighting and "posing" of the feet.

I took some newborn shots last week and baby was shedding skin like there was no tomorrow - instead of fluff, I got whole-of-body dandruff on my black sheet I upped the black point to darken the backgrounds, then did a tedious flake-by-flake repair job.

Thanks for sharing, I'm sure your niece will be thrilled.

[hsmmq]

Thanks for your thoughts! I don't know why I didn't think about those things before. I like the texture the blanket gave the background so I added a black transparent layer to try and cover the fluff more after I cloned some of the fluff out. I then used gaussian blur on the background. This is what I came up with. I like this one alot better.

Do you think that I blurred it to much?

Thanks for your comments.

[SaraJane]

that looks heaps better, awesome work!!

[kgb224]

Spot on capture and post work.