Encouraged by Stefan, here is a shot

Hi everyone,

Seeing the expression on the picture of Stefan's pic of his little brother reminded me that I have a couple of them of my little ones but taken with my fuji compact. I would love to capture some of the similar expressions with my new shiny K20D now and improve on quality.

So comments, advice and suggestions are welcome hoping to get one notch up and capturing them with the K20.

Might I say that I am a total newbie to the world of DSLR but would like to think that I hold deep within me remnants of an artist's soul .

This pic was taken when I managed to snap at the exact moment when he was starting to crunch his cornflakes. Didn't intend to do it that way but when I saw the pic I was pleasantly surprised. At first I didn't know why he had that expression specially with the eye but then went backwards and forwards on other pics on the sequence and saw the ones he was gladly chewing the cornflakes




Thanks

Amin

Where's the photo then



Got it took time to load, might be a bit big for the forum

I think my server hadn't refreshed that's why it hadn't appeared. Phew!! I was getting worried, lol, but there it is now.

I am still new to this, so am wondering if I should still resize it further

Thanks

Amin

Nice portrait of little man maybe a tighter crop on the sides.

I size mine at 500/600pix on the longest side.

Eyes need to a little bit sharper but other than that cracking photo.

Bad habits die hard I suppose, even in kids. Four years down the road still being cheeky with the same eye. And what a coincidence this one was captured over his breakfast too but he was more aware of the K20D in my hands.

This was taken with my 50mm F1.4 at f2.4, 1/60" ISO 200, Focus mode AF-S and flash

Any comments or suggestions for improvement are truly welcome

Amin

The first photo is great Amin, very lovely face he has there

Your last photo is to bright I think, use Tools>Color Tools>Levels to correct this. You can also play with some layers afterwards, Duplicte the layer and try the layer option Soft Light for example and things like that, really just play and see what it does and combine layers to get the effect you want.