My Kids - Page 2

Vianna Szabo · 01-18-2005, 12:58 PM

Well I had to wait a few days for the gray skies to return. I changed his position and attempted to meter the light. I am much happier with this pose but I think the light shape of the arm coming forward is awkward. I kept him in the same coat because he loves it. A clean tee shirt is as dressed up as he will get. I was able to remove the earphones which he had surgically attached to his head. Do you think 20"x24" is too large a canvas for these? Let me know what you think.

Vianna

Michele Rushworth · 01-18-2005, 02:37 PM

Nice light, nice pose (don't even mind the coat so much) but the color balance seems off. Did you set your white balance to shade or cloudy?

Vianna Szabo · 01-18-2005, 03:49 PM

I'm glad you like the pose, Michele. I set the white balance to shady but the color is still much warmer than my daughters photo. Hopefully I can work from the photo and life to get the color correction I need.

Vianna

Patricia Joyce · 01-18-2005, 06:08 PM

I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say, that your kids are great looking and they have GREAT features to draw/paint. Good luck. Looking forward to seeing the portraits in process...

Jean Kelly · 01-19-2005, 12:40 AM

Hi Vianna,

If I were you I'd grab your son again and go for a new shoot. Use the same area, with the cooler light that is in your daughter's photo. You are making things much harder for yourself in trying to adjust the light to match another reference. I like this "look" in his pose, he's a good looking boy.

Jean

Vianna Szabo · 01-19-2005, 09:34 AM

Thank you for the kind complements on my children. They are good kids and my favorite subjects. The warm light is a real stumper to me. He is posed in front of the same window that she was and at the same time of day. The light outside was the all pervasive Michigan gray. Moving him forward from the backdrop helped with the background. I set the white balance the same (shade) and yet the results are so different. Perhaps when I set the meter on her cool skin it read differently than his warm skin?

Vianna

Mike McCarty · 01-19-2005, 11:27 AM

Vianna,

If you go at this again you might try this ... Shoot them as close as you can in time, do your spot meter on the first one and make note of the exposure. When you get to the second manually dial in that same exposure instead letting the camera calculate it. You might come up with more similar temperatures. Just a thought.

It's amazing how the temperature of light can change during the course of a day, or even in a 5 minute period. The following were shot first at 7:30 AM, and the second at 4:30 PM.

You might try a few experiments on still lifes while the kids are in school.

Vianna Szabo · 01-19-2005, 11:47 AM

Hi Mike, your photos have the same color quality of my children's photos. My camera has three meter settings, wide, narrow, and spot. Both kids were shot between 3:00 and 3:30pm. I may try to photograph him again. Thanks for posting those photos.

Vianna