In the garden

[anthonyi]

My kids in the garden...this is a photograph dating form shortly after I acquired my first SLR so I know it's pretty flawed. I had a play with it anyway to get to a different look and this is the result. C&C always welcome.

Shot with a 400D and 50 f1.4

[anthonyi]

Thanks - the colours were what I played with (along with some selective blur and a little vignette) so they're all my fault! The original was pretty much as you'd expect in terms of colouring.

[darosk]

I like the color work. Great shot :)

[queenbee288]

I also like the color work.

[jenirose3]

Can you post the SOOC so we can play with it? I think it's overexposed but the SOOC may not be. Also I think the blurring may be at work here.

[anthonyi]

Yes, it was overexposed (hence my comments about the original being flawed). At the time I hadn't understood RAW either, so it was shot as a JPEG which further limited any opportunity to recover blown highlights.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the blurring may be at work here" - some blur was intentionally added.

Anyway here's the original SOOC bar the crop, resize and save for web - although I can't for the life of me think why anyone would want to play with! :-)

[anthonyi]

I like the color work. Great shot :)

I also like the color work.

Thanks!

[ears]

I like the selective blur! It brings the attention to te kids faces. Some people do not like selective blurring saying that it takes away from the photo but if it is done right I think it works. Yours works! Nice job ;)

[anthonyi]

I like the selective blur! It brings the attention to te kids faces. Some people do not like selective blurring saying that it takes away from the photo but if it is done right I think it works. Yours works! Nice job ;)

Thanks...I was really just trying to do something a little different with an image I liked, even though the original capture was less than perfect. I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea and that's understandable. Always fun to try new things though.

[jenirose3]

I will have a go when i get home. I think the SOOC has great potential.

[anthonyi]

Great, thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing a different take on it.

[jenirose3]

I thought maybe the back of her shirt was blown but I took it in to LR and 99% of it was recoverable. It was a small file so editing was a bit limited. When I said blurring at work it was a gentle way of saying it looks like a blurry OOF picture. The SOOC obviously was not. It actually had great natural "blur".

[anthonyi]

Yes it was shot at f2.5. The edit in the OP above was an attempt to do something different, with a bit of an aged feel - so there was some additional blur as well as the colour changes.

Thanks for your edit...I'll look more closely at the highlights - I thought they were blown in that area too...

[jenirose3]

Obivously editing is a very personal thing. The photographer has a "vision" and that "vision" may not be the same as other photographers. That being said my comments are said from the 'IMHO' point of view.

[anthonyi]

For sure, and it would be a very dull world if we all looked at it the same way...thanks very much for your input, I do appreciate it.

[CliffordPhotography]

I really like what you've come up with, it sets the mood for the shot.