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Fun Portrait...
He is just a little chap but wow he was full of beans....
Wow Bindii! The 2nd one in this series really stands out to me - beautiful! Mind sharing your technique/setup for these shots?
Geoff
Special Moments Photography Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4, 85mm 1.4, 70-200 2.8VR, SB800 & some simple studio stuff.
Lol...here goes now I'm to be the laughing stock of the forum... lay a white sheet on the floor to cover the tiles...turn on overhead spot light....cause I don't have any 'real lights'...open door for natural lights and bounce flash off wall...and shoot... fix the rest in PScs2...  (aint curves great!)
Bindii, you may be using non-standard equipment but the results are excellent. The first shot, IMO, is the stand-out. A beautiful pose and the expression, priceless
 Chris
-------------------------------- I started my life with nothing and I’ve still got most of it left
Bindii
I agree, really nice work. My pick is the last image. A wonderful & fun capture. I'm sure the Mother will love it ! My only critisism is that, IMO, they seem to be a touch overexposed....or you got a little over-exuberant with the curves tool 
Great series though....you should be proud  Dave
Nikon D7000 | 18-105 VR Lens | Nikon 50 1.8G | Sigma 70-300 APO II Super Macro | Tokina 11-16 AT-X | Nikon SB-800 | Lowepro Mini Trekker AWII Photography = Compromise
Great stuff
Goes to show you just need to be innovative rather than spend a whole heap on equipment.
My pick is the last one as well. Hassy, Leica, Nikon, iPhone
Come follow the rabbit hole...
Bindi,
The third shot is wonderful, well done. The second shot - it's a shame that you lost the kid's hand at the bottom edge of this. That spoils this otherwise excellent image. The first one ... hmmmm .... there's something fundamentally wrong here. I'm looking at either side of the subject, and on our right, I'm seeing .... nothing .... yet on our left, I'm seeing some background elements. My feeling is that these background elements should naturally appear on both sides, and the overall background (above the subject's head for instance) gives me no clues as to where the background elements have gone, and thus the image simply doesn't feel right, even though it looks good. So, what am I missing here? g.
Gary Stark Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it - US Pres. Bartlet
Some great shots there Bindi, especially given the constraints of your equipment. Shows what can be acheived with minimal gear but a good eye and conceptualisation.
Gary and Dave raise some good points that would be worth exploring. You know I don't normally shoot bipeds or do studio work so I'm not qualified to comment much beyond "I like". Simon
D300 l MB-D10 l D70 l SB-800 l 70-200 VR l TC 17-E l 18-70 f3.5-4.5 l 70-300 f4-5.6 l 50 f1.4 l 90 Macro f2.8 l 12-24 f4 http://www.redbubble.com/people/manta
The shot is oblique so the instance of the left hand side cannot be repeated on the right. The alcove(!) frames the subject beautifully, but keep in mind the subject itself and this is where this shot really shines Chris
-------------------------------- I started my life with nothing and I’ve still got most of it left
Chris,
I considered all of that, but it still doesn't strike me as being kosher. Look at the line along the child's jeans as they track from the buttock, down the right leg, and then continue into the left leg along the ledge of the alcove. Now look more closely at the area along this line, around the back of the child's knee. There's some sort of a shadow there, and from the colour of it, I'd be willing to suggest that it's the remains of the base (or whatever) that we're seeing on the other side, from where it's been photoshopped out. I think that this base area was there originally, and that's what I'm "seeing" that should be there, but is not. Thus the image to me seems somewhat unbalanced, and I think that perhaps this area needs to be put back; I'm not sure that it would work without the view that it is the alcove. Bindi, could you please be so good as to post the original of this image for us? g.
Gary Stark Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it - US Pres. Bartlet
Absolutely! Where did that big black outline come from??!!
Looking back at the shot, I missed that area in the first look but it's pretty obvious that it's not, as Gary says, completely 'kosher' and that there has been some work done (either by a plasterer or by Bindii in PS). The stairs certainly seem to have disappeared. Perhaps there was a mark on them or the wall? Simon
D300 l MB-D10 l D70 l SB-800 l 70-200 VR l TC 17-E l 18-70 f3.5-4.5 l 70-300 f4-5.6 l 50 f1.4 l 90 Macro f2.8 l 12-24 f4 http://www.redbubble.com/people/manta
#2 is my pick, great lightning, great pose, and lovely subject.
I like #1 too until I read gary's post and now I can't get that right bit out of my mind Abel
Nikon d80, an ever-changing collection of cheap glass, and 0 art-sense.
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