My Girls at Christmas w/Bounced 420EX & High Ceilings

[dsze]

Just 3 of my most recent candids of my girls playing in the living room. The only light source is the 420EX bounced straight up with cathedral-type 15ft. ceiling.

http://home.comcast.net/~randomphotos/CRW_5237.jpg
1/160 f3.2 iso100

http://home.comcast.net/~randomphotos/CRW_5419.jpg
1/160 f2.8 iso100

http://home.comcast.net/~randomphotos/1.jpg
1/160 f2.8 iso100

thanks for looking, comments welcomed!

-daniel

[Big_B]

Lovely shots - you have some very pretty daughters. I think that #2 is absolutely fantastic.:D

[mattym]

#2 for me also, great capture

[iowahawkeye6]

#2 is pretty darn good. I'd say that your flash has plenty of "umph" taking on those 15' ceilings!
Well done.

[amitnike]

wooooww love no1 tooo ... awesome shots

[dsze]

Thanks for all the compliments. The 420EX has more "umph" than I think people give it credit for sometimes. Not that I wouldn't mind a 550 or 580 to go with it. These shots only had the FEC at about half-strength.

-daniel

[drisley]

#1 looks like a picture from DR. Seuss! I love it!
The other 2 are awesome too.

[PM107]

#2 is fantastic - nice job.

[enilm]

#2 is a fantastic photo

[charlesu]

#1 is just TOOOOOOO cute!

[marie]

they are lovely shots

little treasures to have

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

[dsze]

lol...yes, #1; little Cindy Loo Hoo is it?

Thanks for all the kind comments... I have great little models to work with!

-daniel

[mikesd]

Superb Daniel!

[toddb]

I love to eye connection on that second one, awesome!

[Ballen Photo]

Daniel, You've got a couple of REALLY cute models there.:D

As Todd has pointed out, the solid eye contact in the second shot is SUPERB!
-Bruce

[gtg]

splendid photographs of cute kids....

[colliewalker1]

Nice girls - nice photos!

I generally don't like black and white photos:( and would be interested to see colour versions of you B&W shots.

I have just ordered a 420EX flashgun to partner my 300D/Digital Rebel and I'm encouraged to see that your bounce flash was so successful, even with a very high ceiling, as this is one of my main purposes in buying this flashgun.

[dsze]

colliewalker,
...you don't like B&W photos???? I would be very happy to share some color shots with you, but I am also very interested in your reasons for disliking B&W. I think it's fascinating. B&W can often give a true picture of the way light hits a scene and how the scene deals with that light. ...and the fact that there are literally limitless possibilities for converting color to B&W in digitial...its so interesting to me. ....not to say that I don't love color...I do. But sometimes, colors, hues and saturations just distract from the "pure-ness" and the lines of an image.

...that being said, I do think that B&W is overdone and too often people just always convert to grayscale and call that a B&W conversion. I don't like the idea of converting to B&W any photo that doesn't "make the cut" as a color image either. A B&W photo 'usually' is already B&W in my mind before I even release the shutter.

...anyway, just my thoughts. I'm very interested in hearing why you 'don't' like B&W generally. I'll try to find some color images in this same -high-ceiling- room with the bounced 420 and post them here shortly.

thanks,
daniel

[KartGirlsMom]

Daniel they are so cute and your photographs are beautiful. From the mom of 4 nearly grown girls, remember to treasure every day with them, time flies so fast.

[dsze]

Here's another one in color under the same conditions. Now, I did make curves & levels adjustments to this, but the lighting is still pretty even and soft, I think. The white balance is not quite right, but you get the idea of what the flash did.

http://home.comcast.net/~randomphotos/CRW_5244.jpg

-daniel