Young head on old shoulders

[admin]

Young head on old shoulders



I took this shot walking along the beach, behind my brother who had is young son on his shoulders and it reminded me of the saying, "you can't put a young head on old shoulders". This disproves the theory.

[Analog6]

This is great.

There is a new comp that was advertised in the weekend Australian (in the magazine) with a theme of relationships - this would be a goer for that, I think.  I'll see if I can post the link and start an external comps thread with it.  Come to that, yopur footprints int eh sand one woudl too. I know of some others, too.

[admin]

Thanks for the comment. I might just do that. It couldn't hurt.

[welshi]

Hi I was just http://wondering how you managed to blur the background a bit but keep the subject in focus?

thanks

daz

[admin]

Hi Daz and welcome to our little group.

This was taken with a basic Canon 300D (Rebel in the US market) and a canon 100-300 zoom with the aperature wide open, so it is a combination of the telephoto lens compressing the image and the wide aperature which creates a very shallow plane of focus or depth of field.

To get that effect with any camera with either manual settings, or aperature control, or a portait pre-set, the idea is to shoot with as wide an aperature as possible. I now own some "fast" zooms which allow a max aperature of f2.8 which allows a very shallow depth of field and some beautiful blurred backgrounds.

Thanks for joining.

[Helen]

Mark, that definitely needs to go in the comp that Odille has mentioned. To me the photo speaks volumes on the relationship of this father and son. 

[Tim N]

Nice shot, very atmospheric. Did you do any post process to tone down the colours ? Its quite effective without too much saturation or vibrant colours.

[admin]

Hi Tim,
Yes is the short answer, but not too much.
I created a new layer in CS3 then:
Desaturated a little (about 10%)
Used a a soft brush to burn in the light just a little on the top left shoulder area of the striped T-shirt
Used a small brush at about 5% opacity to burn in the white leading foam edges of the water.

Why?
I don't know, other than that for me, sometimes it helps to increase the 'drama' of the available light just a little.

[Cygnus]

That pic definately gets the "Aww" for today.