They have quite a few aspects in common in addition to being approximately the same age. I took pictures of the wedding of their parents and they both live in Holland. And, their mothers are Asians. James is my grandnephew while Romy is the granddaughter of our good friends. The images were taken using available light only in their respective living room on two different days and edited lightly using LR.
Thank you for looking and please, feel free to leave any feedback.
Joshua
What a wonderful set of photographs that the families will cherish over the years. Of all of them, I really like #2 for the intense pose and razor-sharp focus on the little girl's eye.
Beautiful work, and definitely worthy of my vote.
Tom
story_teller wrote:
Great use of natural light and very nice images!
Larry, thank you very much!
Tom In Arizona wrote:
Hi Joshua...
What a wonderful set of photographs that the families will cherish over the years. Of all of them, I really like #2 for the intense pose and razor-sharp focus on the little girl's eye.
Beautiful work, and definitely worthy of my vote.
Tom
Tom, I really appreciate your kind words. And thank you for voting, sir!
Fred Amico wrote:
Lovely portraits, Joshua. I'm sure their parents were quite pleased.
Fred, thank you very much!
bobbytan wrote:
Cute kids!
Thank you very much, Bobby! They have virtually the same background as your grandchildren...
Karl Witt wrote:
#2 is fabulous, elegant and innocent. Really a nice relaxed set with these kids Joshua, the natural expressions and those eyes are special
Karl
Karl, thank you for your kind words, sir!
gheller wrote:
Great looking images.
When I used to this type of work in my studio years ago, I learned quickly not to use a stark white background. Competes with the subject.
HTH
greg
Greg, thank you very much for your kind words. In general, I do like whitish background on young children and I tend to edit it lightly and I tend to render the images more on the hi-key side.
I'm not such a lover of "look at me having a good lens pictures". The sharpness depth of field on the face for a portrait, I don't find as effective as you have the background blurred. Especially the last picture, it is important to show what he's looking at. Pictures are fine. Number two really jumps out. Just my opinion of course.
Ed te Pas wrote:
I'm not such a lover of "look at me having a good lens pictures". The sharpness depth of field on the face for a portrait, I don't find as effective as you have the background blurred. Especially the last picture, it is important to show what he's looking at. Pictures are fine. Number two really jumps out. Just my opinion of course.
Thank you very much! Although the two lenses used are considered "portrait lenses" as they render facial features proportionately, none of them is considered super fast. But since they are short telephotos, the depth-of-field created by the lenses is rather shallow. Personally, I would rather put emphasis on the facial expression in a somewhat tightly-composed portrait than what the boy was holding, which was a piece of paper, if I remember correctly. Since they were captured using available light, stopping down the aperture quite a bit to render the toy in focus could have resulted in either a slower shutter speed or higher ISO. Both could have impacted the image negatively. Hence, I did what I did.
