This are 3 pictures of my kids. I'm very proud of them (the kids, not the pictures). They were taken with an Olympus C740UZ. I would love to hear your comments, suggestions.
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No critique on the kids; they're keepers!
1. Cute kid. I like the shallow DOF. Colors, skin tones look good. Yellow strip totally kills the image, in my opinion. For images with eyes looking away, showing or more clearly implying what is being viewed and related to helps.
2. Nice portrait. Background really doesnt add anything, and is somewhat distracting.
The white door edge is particularly distracting, and a small bright reflection at the top of his head could be cloned out. Look for simpler, cleaner backgrounds with less elements. Keeping backgrounds clean, simple, without bright spots, and with complementary or neutral colors generally helps.
3. Cute image that I'm sure is a keeper. Great expression, sharply detailed, although the sharpness of the sand/gravel actually doesnt help. Lighting is very harsh with deep shadows, but I suspect you took this to capture the event, not to make the worlds best technically captured image. Most of the area above her head and a bit to the left could be cropped out to bring the focus more in on the subject and remove some distracting elements.
Hi Scott, thanks for replying.
1. the yellow strip is a paint brush she's holding, and she was of course looking at her easel. Now, it helps I already knew all that... I understand your point. The angle of the brush perhaps looks a bit funny too. I wanted to capture the little artist hard at work.
2. I would not have thought much of the background. It makes sense. I'll try to remember that.
3. Usually I don't use any cropping, the concept has not completely sunk in. Feels a bit like cheating...
I'd be interested to know what you think of the PQ, in relation to the camera I used? Can I justify buying something better? (say yes) What are the area in which I'd notice a definite improvement with a good dslr, over my c740?
They were taken with an Olympus C740UZ. I would love to hear your comments, suggestions.
