This has been my week

Fenster

Discuss.

CabanSail

What are we discussing here?

I do not like the colour cast & the eyes are not sharp.

AnimalRights

There's still something interesting about the picture though.

sasar

This is pretty much what I've been having for the last 3 months....

thebaz

its how I feel most of the time at the moment

DaireQuinlan

Who was that photographer who used to make kids cry ? Offer them sweets, snatch them away and then take a bunch of shots while those emotive little tears started brimming up ? Down with smiling happy kiddy shots !

KarmaGarda

I've just been given a new crappy project. Yeah, that's about how I feel. :pac:

PaulieC

you look very young to be posting here.

Chorcai

cambo_gueno wrote: »

you look very young to be posting here.

Kids these days !:rolleyes:

trishw78

CabanSail wrote: »

What are we discussing here?

I do not like the colour cast & the eyes are not sharp.

I like the colour cast and I like that the eyes are not sharp. if you were crying you wouldn't see things sharp.

Dodgykeeper

It is not a good picture at all inho, as a previous poster said the eyes are not sharp, surely this is a pre requisite of any portrait, I dont think it is very flattering to the child either and the white balance seems to be off, the background while there is good DOF and it is OOF is still too cluttered

lol @ trishw saying "if you were crying you wouldn't see things sharp" hope you never take a portrait of a blind man

Calina

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Who was that photographer who used to make kids cry ? Offer them sweets, snatch them away and then take a bunch of shots while those emotive little tears started brimming up ? Down with smiling happy kiddy shots !

Jill Greenberg.

AnCatDubh

Fenster - Can you be clear about the purpose of your thread please when you post. The title, the image and the instruction to the forum are disconnected. If it's C&C then please put C&C in the title. This is standard forum protocol. If it's a question as to how best to deal with upset children when photographing them, then please ask that question a bit clearer. Thank you.

smelltheglove

I'm not a fan of crying pictures to be honest, I take it this is your own child? I do have these of my children, to bring out when I feel the need to embarrass them, but if it was for a work purpose than to be honest it wouldnt do anything for me.

I do recall there was a photographer that would take crying children pictures, but I think for those sort of shots there needs to be context or wonder, i.e. http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3685512-md.jpg here you feel the childs anguish, I feel maybe a homeless child, http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3884/faithkt4.jpg this to me shows a simulated cry, as mentioned maybe sweets snatched away, still quite a grogeous picture.

I think the picture you have posted is of course of a gorgeous baby but to me I feel like wet nappy, tired, hungry, without the obvious sitting room background a tight crop on the face may make the viewer interpret it differently, dont show the surroundings and your viewer will not be able to tell that this is your child at a cute moment, they may wonder, is this child subjected to extreme hunger / heat or many other circumstances. Put into the simulation of the second link here it would be a beautiful photograph, although executed to the minute detail it would strike people completely differently to the image you have posted here.

potlatch

Oh lighten up, everyone.

AnimalRights

Toss the whingers onto the Halloween fire... Give the crying baby a 2nd chance too.

Dodgykeeper

potlatch wrote: »

Oh lighten up, everyone.

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DliveMike

Where's the world-famous mustard forum around here?

Eirebear

AnCatDubh wrote: »

Fenster - Can you be clear about the purpose of your thread please when you post. The title, the image and the instruction to the forum are disconnected. If it's C&C then please put C&C in the title. This is standard forum protocol. If it's a question as to how best to deal with upset children when photographing them, then please ask that question a bit clearer. Thank you.

I would guess its more along the lines of Fenster trying to say hes has a pretty awful week.
The fact that he has posted a picture of a crying baby, in a photography forum, could mean that he has had a pretty frustrating week in terms of photography.
Maybe he has had those niggling little problems that all parents of young children have, figuring out how to spend time with their family, but still get their photography fix?

It doesnt seem all that disjointed when you look at it that way.

KarmaGarda

Eirebear wrote: »

I would guess its more along the lines of Fenster trying to say hes has a pretty awful week.
The fact that he has posted a picture of a crying baby, in a photography forum, could mean that he has had a pretty frustrating week in terms of photography.
Maybe he has had those niggling little problems that all parents of young children have, figuring out how to spend time with their family, but still get their photography fix?

It doesnt seem all that disjointed when you look at it that way.

That's exactly how I interpreted it. So I agree, not at all disjointed.

oshead

Eirebear wrote: »

Maybe he has had those niggling little problems that all parents of young children have, figuring out how to spend time with their family, but still get their photography fix?

+1

I hear ya. Been there, done that, will do again. :pac:

sineadw

I like it a lot Frustration all round!