Critique Welcomed Another couple of the littlies from the studio

Any thoughts on the first one?
Ive had more "likes" on facebook of this image than I've ever had...
I think it looks like the front of a birthday card that I would probably overlook i I saw it in a shop :)
 
Absolutely fantastic H, I'll have to send my girls to your studio!!
The first one is brilliant! Although Connie is Mega cute bless her, I find the first shot more interesting.
It's not your 'look at the camera and say cheese' shot.
Like you've said in the past, you know a good shot when you see one because you think to yourself 'why didn't I do that!!!?'
Fabulous! Do you care to share the settings used? Or have they altered any differently from the similar threads?
 
They would have been 200 Iso (base on te camera) f11/f13 probably and 1/100th - 1/160th ish ... Then adjust the lights to suit!
thats pretty much my point and poke studio settings
In this instance I just used the histogram on the camera to make sure nothing was clipped but looked nice and bright on the screen!

Cheers, and yeah, bring them down sometime!
 
AHA...

I've finally figured out what was nagging at me about that first photo, Hamish.

The whole picture is a remarkable copy of the little girls that Mabel Lucy Atwell used to draw.

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Cute!
 
Loving the tones on these, gives a real class and vintage feel with out being contrived. Real good work, like you other posts n you new studio shot real quality stuff nothing t critique tbh ;)
 
Haha, yeah Adrian that's amazing!

Thanks Adam
You will have to pop up and see the set up sometime!

Lesley, technically she was plonked in front of the camera and told to smile ... She just took no notice and this happened :)
we were all just trying to get them to play to be fair ... Connie had her typical loads of fun crawling arround trying to find stuff to stand up against ... Kiera just got upset and ran to her mom a lot :(
 
I think the first one is great Hamish, it is far more than just a portrait. There is a sense of tension to it that adds a lot of interest. You have the eyes looking as far right as they can, the finger in the mouth, the hand gripping the dress and the chubby knees. All these things really add something to the image. Also it is a tension that you wouldn't expect to see in this kind of child portrait.
 
Cheers Aleks and Paul!

I know what you mean Paul .. I suppose it was a little tense, at very least it was a case of trying to capture a very fleeting moment where she wasnt crying. She's only 15 months old so she obviously disont really understand what was happening but I think she knew she had to stand there for a moment but she really didn't want to. It was obvious this was because she was shy sso for me it was about capturing that shyness at its best ... It's best being cute, it's worst being a very sad face. Oddly I think the lights flashing worked in my favour... Just enough to distract her as a fired of shots about 2 a second for a few seconds. She had looked over her shoulder at my Hannah who was sat behind her giving her lots of praise for being a good girl etc ...
Lesson learned - when taking photos of kids have people to distract them from the scary man with the big black thing in front of his face :)
 
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