Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Just took a few quick shots of my son's family just before they left after a few days visit with us.

They standing by a tree that I have marked over the years with the girl's growth marks.

Thanks for viewing!

Comments always welcomed!

The Family

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Morgan and Charlie

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Lauren and her Teddy

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ronwande Loc: Hendersonville NC

Neat looking family. Very nice poses. Good job with Portrait Pro. I would increase the saturation a little to get the skin tones to a more realistic level. Also on the first shot a little dodging in Photoshop to bring your son's face brightness up to match the others would help.

If your goal was the desaturated look, you succeeded very well.

I hesitate to ask, but would you be OK with my posting what I would
have done with the image?

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Thanks Ron. Please post!

rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Beautiful family!

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Thanks rlaugh!

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Moxie, what a nice looking family!!! It is so nice to see other folks family! Thank you!!!!

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Hey Erv! Thanks very much for your kind comments!

ronwande Loc: Hendersonville NC

Here's my attempt. It is OK if you still like yours better :-)

After uploading I note that the thumbnail looks just right but the download looks very red... and I just calibrated my monitor yesterday.

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angler Loc: StHelens England

They are a great looking young family Moxie and you took some excellent photos of them.

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Thanks ron I appreciate your input! I have never calibrated my monitor which is a retina screen and I often have people remark about my colors being off but to me they look ok.... so I probably need to calibrate mine.

Yours does appear overly red to me also.

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Thanks very much angler!

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

I really like 2 & 3. A very pretty young subject indeed. :thumbup: Of course I don't want to leave anyone out - a beautiful family.

Moxie Loc: Pensacola, FL

Thanks jim!

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

Awesome Moxie. Jeff

Weddingguy Loc: British Columbia - Canada

Decades ago when I was in the stages of learning portrait lighting, my mentor made a statement that has stuck with me since . . . he said, "take the subject to the light".
You have certainly done that as your choice of lighting is great.

Your posing is quite good, but you do have to watch for things like cutting limbs off at joints, showing the back of hands flat instead of the more graceful edges, having subjects from straight on frontal view instead of having the body turned slightly, and a few other knit picking things . . . but all in all quite good.

The "portrait pro" treatment on the group shot is a bit over done, especially on the man on which skin softening should not be done as it is very un-masculine. If you did it on the girls individual portraits, it is well done.

The first impact from your images was that they really lack "pop" and badly needed adjustments on the black and white clipping. I did not mind the lower than normal saturation, but in the examples below I did increase it by 10% . . . not a lot. Sometimes I believe we tend to be influenced by television which is mostly over saturated in my opinion.

I am not seeing an over abundance of red on my calibrated monitor, so left it as your original.

Hope this helps.

Great job!!!
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(Tried to post adjusted images, but not working.