close but not quite...

[fuzzyframes]

I took some pics of a friends daughter just before her 1st birthday last month. I am trying to figure out how not to blow out the bright red and bright pink and bright green in the pics (first two are real bad and I have not come up with a way of correcting it). The first three had a soft focus filter on them (I forgot I even had it on and wished I hadn't) The last two do not. The lighting was harsh, but I didn't have any other option at the time (that has now been rectified with a descent backdrop so I don't have other junk in the background and some descent defused lighting.).

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So please comment away!

[chrisc]

Biggest problem I see which cannot be "fixed" PP is you didn't use a fast enough shutter speed, nor a shallow enough DOF. Babies are like puppies: they move much quicker than you think and are highly unpredictable as to where they will move. Lastly, you need to be at a much lower angle to capture their fullest expressions. Shooting from high to low works okay with rocks, not so great with people.

[Stevewebb]

It is a shame about the background but the things that we kill ourselves over are often just not seen by the parents as all they can see is cute little daisy

I know you had the soft focus filter on a couple of them but the focus looks a little off in a couple of the others. Do you have it set to area auto focus where the camera decides what to focus on? I tend to stick to a single focus point for stuff like this to make sure that the eye nearest the camera is always the sharpest bit.

I do like the 2nd and 3rd images though. They are the sort of shots i always forget to take.

[fuzzyframes]

Chrisc, thanks for the feedback, points very well put.

stevewebb, your observation about parents is so true. But eventually they will look at them a little more closely and if not them, their friends will. I only use a single focus point, but I think it goes back to the point that Chrisc made, faster than I thought and unpredictable movement, I think that is what caused the focus point to be appear in locations other then where it should have been, on the eyes.