First Family Portrait - CC Welcome

I have more from this series if anyone's interested.

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I love this photo.everything about it is perfect.except the processing...I just find it Too grainy.....but the pose is fabulous.

Yeah, for some reason it posted that way. I think it's because I had to heavily compress it in order to be able to post it. It doesn't look like that on my computer. Thanks for the comments!

Hi Rick. I'm not a fan of blown highlights, but there's enough in the picture to keep attention away from them for a good while . I'd also suggest more depth of field to bring mum into the picture a bit more. As is, she's looking very much surplus to requirements. Nice composition and colour, and great energy. Cheers, Tony

I love this photo Rick. Funny, because I think Mom has just enough "defocus" to make it look right and for some reason the blown highlights work. I find the tree trunk a bit distracting, but removing it may spoil the image.

Well done mate!

If you watch your DPI versus your image size when you're resizing an image, chances are you won't need to add so much compression. If the image is of reasonable size to begin with (4-5 megapixels or higher) and you resize to 72 dpi with 800 pixels as your longest side, usually you can save your jpegs at medium or even high without too much loss of quality.

Just a suggestion,
Peace,
Jim

Walczak Photo wrote in post #5449327
If you watch your DPI versus your image size when you're resizing an image, chances are you won't need to add so much compression. If the image is of reasonable size to begin with (4-5 megapixels or higher) and you resize to 72 dpi with 800 pixels as your longest side, usually you can save your jpegs at medium or even high without too much loss of quality.

Just a suggestion,
Peace,
Jim

If you resize to 800 pixels on the long side it doesn't matter what the DPI is. DPI is only used in combination with total pixels to determine final print size.

I do find that trying to get a 1024 pixel image into the 150kb limitation requires too much compression though. 800x? is usually a good quality upload if you Save for Web. Include your exif if you do this, and want feedback that exif would help.

Got the prints back from the lab for this series and they look great! I think the family is going to be very pleased. Thanks for the responses!