I am having a hell of a time with this shot.... See info below the picture.
My son's first meeting with Goofy!
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Problems and issues with this shot:
1. This was the first outing day I had with my new 5D MkII. Went to Walt Disney World with my wife and two year old son and shot a lot of pictures... almost exclusively outside. Like an idiot, I was so used to shooting with my 50D, that I didn't bring my 580EXII, having forgotten that the 5D has no pop up! So I ended up shooting this picture handheld, with no flash, @ 1/50th, ISO 640 (at the time still scared of higher ISO), f/4, with my 24-105 @ 67mm. No time for posing because the Disney people were trying to move the line along as fast as possible, all the while having to shoulder my way into position against one of the many Disney Photographers who seem to be everywhere. The lighting was mixed and not very flattering as you can see.
2. The shot was one of four with Goofy, and my son's expression in this one is priceless. Unfortunately, I have been trying to post-process this picture and clean it up in Aperture 3 and having a hell of a difficult time. There is so much color saturation in the entire scene that every adjustment I make in one area negatively affects another. The best I could do was to try and clean up the skin tones and pseudo white balance the shot. Additionally, I am viewing on my new Dell u2410 monitor hooked up to my Mac Pro...and have had to set the brightness at 20% or get blown away! It is also extraordinarily difficult to work with this image while viewing because just when it looks right, the cones in my eyes become totally saturated, and if I walk away from the monitor and then come back, it looks entirely different to my eyes!
Don't know what more I can do to improve this shot, colorwise or cropping, but I'd certainly be open to suggestions! I want this as a family "keeper".
