Father and Son…
Posted by Fyse on Friday, 25 January 2008
This is a shot taken from the archives, in fact from amongst the first
photos I took with my D80. With no time to take something new I was
looking for a shot I could enter under the theme ‘People’, and eventually
settled on this. As you can see, it’s pretty heavily edited, and I started
out aiming for a cross-processed look but didn’t quite end up there. With
the submission deadline approaching and insufficient photoshop skills, I
sent it of as is. In the cold light of day I think I whatever the road I was
going down, I may have gone too far. Thoughts?
It’s hard to know if you “went too far down the road” without knowing what the beginning of the road looked like. As for the “cross-processed look,” I definitely find it to be most effective in photos with a lot of different, bright, and contrasty colors. The main colors in this photo seem to be black and gray, which isn’t going to give you a great cross-processed picture, even if you were shooting in film and actually cross-processing it.
All of that being said, it’s a fine photo. For me, my main issue with it is that the little boy’s had is obscuring part of his face. As you may have gathered, having seen my photoblog and also knowing that I’ve dabbled in wedding photography, photography people is mostly what I do. A hand in front of the face, especially an eye, is less than ideal. Just my opinion!
Cool, just the kind of comment that is useful. Though I would like to think I would pick a non-obscured photo in preference to this one (if I happened to have both shots), it wasn’t something that I immediately saw as a problem with this, so cheers for pointing it out. Something to bear in mind in future. And I think my cross-processing experiments need a little more careful consideration, and perhaps a tutorial that tells me what to do…