Little Model

[toddb]

Just had the softbox out so I snapped a couple while my daughter was playing.

http://pws.cablespeed.com/~toddb/forumpost/CRW_9868.jpg

http://pws.cablespeed.com/~toddb/forumpost/CRW_9870.jpg

http://pws.cablespeed.com/~toddb/forumpost/CRW_9876.jpg

[mrclark321]

Great facial expressions...nice shots

Dan

[pehabe]

great lighting...
a nice investment this softbox, right ;)

cheers

[sixshot]

Her face in number 2 is great. Nice shots.

[skade]

Love the second two! She is absolutely adorable!! Excellent shots!!

[InTheDark]

Shot number 2 is adorable. Cool kid.

[charlesu]

Love Numbers 2 and 3!

[BlueTit]

All great shots, I can't pick bwetween the three of them.

[Vetteography]

I like the last one best, what an expression!

[Carzee]

The first one has everything "just right". Best pic I've seen today.

[Bruce Hamilton]

Looking at # 2, I almost hear Clint Eastwood... "Go ahead... Make my day!"

[PhotosGuy]

Very nice!

[markubig]

haha #2 is awesome!!! your daughter is so cute!

[boomerang]

Love the shots, really excellent work!!!

[cfcRebel]

She sure has the talent to become a model. Very nice shots.

[cjm]

Very nice, great looking kid.

[Skip Souza]

I'll bet she is a real "hambone"

[toddb]

She is. I've not meet a more imaginative 3 year old. She can pretty much animate anything...even when we try to get her to go to sleep, with only her two index fingers, she can cary on for over an hour in the dark talking with her two fingers. :lol:

We like to call her "spirited", she a pretty great little girl and not just because I'm her papa. She is kind enough to let me get some snap shots in here and there. She is unbribable as well which I guess is a good thing but it can be quite difficult to get her set up for a cool shot, so I take what I can get.

[Starfleet_EMH]

Great shots! I like #2 in particular. Your daughter is such a natural model!

EMH

[drisley]

Wow! Those are superb!
#2 is perfect in every way imho! Great subject and expression, and great composition and toning.
Great work! I would buy one of those tri-frames, and put all the pictures together up on a wall.

[BottomBracket]

Love the lighting in these pictures. Great expression on the subject, cute kid.

[tim]

I love all those photos, well done! :)

[MichaelE]

Great series! Man... Now I wanna get a soft box too!

[drisley]

Great series! Man... Now I wanna get a soft box too!
Me too! And I also need to find a store that sells such photogenic models :)

[wintoid]

Wow, I want to take shots like that!

[Fer]

LOVE them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dirty Shirt]

What a ham! I love them!

[Croasdail]

These are awsome kids shots.... thank you! I am a real big fan of black and white but this little girl has such great coloring for once I really like the color much more. Lighting is also just spot on. Keep it up!

[ayotnoms]

These shots--like the others--rock!

[RbrtPtikLeoSeny]

Haha wow! Those rule!!! Great shots, and great little model. She looks like she was having a lot of fun during that shoot. Very comfortable infront of the camera.

[hollow]

I love the first one ! :)
Great shots !

[Andy_T]

Great series!

Wonderful lighting, but even better posing by your daughter.
You can consider yourself blessed.
I love #3.

Best regards,
Andy

[pyterps]

I really like #2. Great shots and keeps me learning new things everyday.

[mgbeach]

do you mind posting a couple more specifics? Like size of the softbox and its position, and whether or not you used a reflector?

[toddb]

I learned a new trick the last month or so in Photoshop about increasing density in an image to bring back some depth to an image...I know some look a little too desaturated, but that's just a phase I'm going through right now. See this post (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71334) to see what the image looked like after each stage of post processing.

As for the lighting, I used my one softbox which was set at the standard 45 degree angle to the right of my camera. I did recently get a 32" 5-in-1 reflector (here I used the silver) and put it at a 45 degree angle on the left side. I'd say the box and reflector where about 3 to 4 feet away from her. I had a black felt background my wife picked up at a fabric store for the background. That's pretty much it. As you can see from that link to that other post, the image that came out of the camera really wasn't super, it was underexposed at first and flat (but not enough that some simple tweaks in PS didn't fix).

Next time I'll take a shot of the whole setup. I've got another post with a picture of it somewhere. The softbox with the AlienBee is pretty big (40" tall and 32" wide) which is a really nice size because it's about as big as she is.