I used Lightroom's flat curve preset. I'm still trying to learn how to adjust my camera manually. The exif data is: iso 200, 26 mm, f/4.2, and 1/320 sec.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Constructive Feedback Friday
Today is Constructive Feedback Friday at I ♥ Faces. One thing I always struggle with is getting everyone in group pictures to look at me, especially all the kids. I try to move as quickly as possible to keep everyone's attention span, but are there any tricks that you have to help? Also, do you have any suggestions on posing large groups like this?
I used Lightroom's flat curve preset. I'm still trying to learn how to adjust my camera manually. The exif data is: iso 200, 26 mm, f/4.2, and 1/320 sec.
I used Lightroom's flat curve preset. I'm still trying to learn how to adjust my camera manually. The exif data is: iso 200, 26 mm, f/4.2, and 1/320 sec.
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Oh you did pretty good with this actually! In fact fr myself, personally, I like when all of my kids are squirmy in pictures because that's who they are and it's a little comical to me. I love it! But if you want to get everyone looking at the camera and I have very similar problems as well, especially when shooting ginormous bridal parties for weddings, I would set the camera to do multiple exposures quickly one after another. Try and talk and get everyone to look at you while you have your eye in the viewfinder and taking pictures in rapid succession at the same time. Stand in the same spot and keep the camera at the exact same height and angle (as much as possible) as you are shooting away. Once you've got like ten or fifteen of the same group image, go into Photoshop and open up on of the group images that you think had the most amount of faces facing correctly and not blinking. Then open up another one of the images, where th eones who were blinking or facing incorrectly in the first image, look fine in second image (use a third or fourth image, and so on, if need be). Now, use the lasso tool in Photoshop and feather the pixels to about 5 pixels, and select a face from the second image, and copy and paste onto the first image where they are looking incorrectly. Then use the arrow tool to drag the pasted face over to where it belongs and align it correctly until it fits perfectly. Also, please make sure that when you process both images that you process them similarly so that the tones and brightness match each other before you copy and paste. I have had to do this many times and it wrks flawlessly, and no one is ever able to tell that a face is from a different image. Good luck and nice job!
Caroline has excellent advice! Honestly, I am so impressed with this picture. You chose a beautiful backdrop. The lighting is perfect - no blotchy light or harsh shadows. Most amazing, you can see every single face in the photo. There really is no magical way to get everyone looking in the photo...it's next to impossible.
Like Caroline said, squirmy kids gives the photo personality, and many things can be fixed by combining faces from different photos.
I have Photoshop Elements, and it has a really easy tool to combine the best parts of different photos.
The only changes I made to your photo was to straighten the crop a bit and adjust levels very slightly. This photo was very well taken!
(My changes are here: http://rileyyearinphotos.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-faces-constructive-feedback-friday.html)
You did a great job! I love wiggly kids. The wigglier the better! In years to come those wigglers will bring many smiles. I can't offer any advice, but I just came over to say hi : )
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