 Posted 3/26/2007 9:43:44 AM
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Posted 3/26/2007 2:05:53 PM
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| I like the colors and the eye looks pretty good, but there is too much softness in the frame. It may be just a matter of personal taste. I feel that there is too little of the shot that is in focus, and too much that is not. Makes me feel like I want more of it to be in focus to anchor the rest of it. The plane of focus is in the right place but it is very shallow. Just my opinion, hope it makes sense to you.
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Posted 3/26/2007 2:22:04 PM
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| Yes, it makes perfect sense. It's actually called a shallow Depth of Field. I was actually going for that shallow DOF look. Thanks for your comments. What do you think of the composition?
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Posted 3/26/2007 3:00:39 PM
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| I actually love eye shots! I like the comp on this very much and the softness and subtle colors seems to heighten, what I am presuming, is the eye as the main focal point. I guess, this being only my own personal opinion of course, I might would have tilted his head just a smidgen more upward. Not sure what technique you use to widen your sons eyes in captures, but sometimes I tell my kids to shut their eyes until I am ready to shoot, then open quickly and widely. It seems to help with making there eyes seems a tad more open.(Not all the time,but sometimes..lol!). This also helps me when using flash on my kids pictures. Overall, I think it's a creative and nicely done image. Vicki 
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Posted 3/26/2007 3:40:24 PM
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| Thanks Vicki. My son's 3 so it was hard enough to keep him still to get this shot. I don't the trick would have worked on him. Although I love that trick, especially for group shots when there seems to be always at least one person who blinks.
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Posted 3/26/2007 3:58:39 PM
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| Wil, I liked it a lot.......I thought the eye was in perfect position...took my eyes straight to it and with so much softness elsewhere ,,,kept it there trying to see if you had gotten any reflections in the eye  ...I thought perhaps it was a touch bright in the softfocused areas but....It was just a pleasant effect...The eye was glossier than most that I see and though more detail was possible I still liked the overall "dreamy" look it had.. But just my newbcents
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Posted 3/26/2007 4:03:24 PM
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| I do , indeed, understand about being 3! Have just a few kids, myself..(6 to be exact, and a few grands.) This being the case, and knowing even more facts on the 'difficulty' of the shot, makes it all the more interesting as to how well it turned out, in my opinion. You have a great model to be only 3!
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Posted 3/26/2007 4:25:23 PM
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Very good clarity, sharpness and color. My only complaint is that I feel the eye is just a slight bit too far in the bottom left corner. It feels unbalanced to me. I would crop a little off the top right hand corner to bring it a little closer into the frame in what I (keyword I) feel would be a more harmonious composition. Just my $0.02. Nice shot.
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Posted 3/26/2007 4:47:34 PM
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| Thanks all for your opinions. They are appreciated. Zeke, I wanted to stick to the rule of thirds on this one. His pupil is actually placed right on the lower thirds. Not that the rule shouldn't be broken. Do you feel it should be cropped so it brings more attention to his eye?
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