{"id":2662,"date":"2011-06-06T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2011-06-04T22:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T03:30:59","slug":"lily-catching-kate-jumping-from-the-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/lily-catching-kate-jumping-from-the-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily catching Kate jumping from the swings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lily<\/a><\/p>\n

This is my first attempt at a composite using my girls as subjects. The inspiration for the photograph came from Justin<\/a> and some of the pictures that he has created of his boys. I have been thinking of creating some more creative pictures of the girls for awhile, and have kept putting it off. This weekend I gave it a go. This is the first idea that I had.<\/p>\n

I think the concept worked. I envisioned a picture of Kate flying through the air, and Lily trying to catch her. I gave her my ball glove to try to make it look like she was ready to catch. I had trouble getting Lily to look like she was nervous about being able to catch Kate. Kate’s jump worked well though. Also, to simplify, I went with a picture outside that I didn’t think needed flash. Most of Justin’s images are inside using flash, which I will move up to when I think of something good.<\/p>\n

Technically there are a few problems. First is that Kate is blurry. I almost didn’t post this because of it, but decided to anyway. I learned that a kid jumping off a swing is faster than 640th of a second can freeze. Surprised me. I think I got the pictures aligned, but when I went to try to pose Lily, other kids kept looking in the camera and must have bumped it. (we had several over at the time) Also, there is a halo around Kate. I cut her out so I could move her up in the frame to make her look like the jump was higher. Every time I try to take someone off a natural setting I get this. I’ve got to get that figured out.<\/p>\n

The other is the view. The kids are heavily weighted to the left of the frame. Not sure I like that. I did choose this angle on purpose though, and that was so that you only saw the garage in the background. I didn’t want to show the crap that is our parking pad and back lane. Thought it would be too distracting. I might try for a different location where I can get them perpendicular to the frame. Trick is to find that location where there aren’t a ton of other kids around.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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