Tom McCreary, APSA, MPSA  


Umbrella girl by Tom McCreary, APSA, MPSA

August 2018 - Umbrella girl

August 2018 - Tom McCreary, APSA, MPSA

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About the Image(s)

This was taken at a friend's party for a 4 year old birthday girl. She was really excited about the umbrella. After I cropped the image in some, I converted to monochrome in Photoshop, to get rid of the color distractions. I then used used the content aware fill and the clone tool to get rid of remaining distractions. It was taken with my Nikon D7500 and Nikon 18-300mm lens at 58mm, f9, ISO 500 and 1/60th second using the on-camera flash.


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5 comments posted




Stephen Levitas   Stephen Levitas
Our four grand-kids range from two to six, and they also all love to play with umbrellas. We committed a major error recently when we only had three to give out.
You caught a fine, enthusiastic moment in this shot.
Good choices for cropping and darkening--you did not need that floral cushion in the shot.
Technically, I see the flash shadow is very far off-set. Was this shot with the camera rotated 90 degrees to the right? If that is the cause, then perhaps such shots should be made with the camera level, and then crop to the desired image. Do I read this right?   Posted: 08/03/2018 13:04:17



Diana Magor   Diana Magor
A lovely kiddie shot. She looks so happy! You've done a good job of removing the distracting bits. I think you should darken the sliver of triangle on the left hand side and have you got the whole of the brolly? It looks as if the frame just cuts its edge. I would also experiment with darkening the wall behind her head as it sort of leads the eye up and out. can you lighten the whites of the eyes a very, very small amount. Carol used to say she always did and it made the eyes come alive even more.
A good one!   Posted: 08/07/2018 04:48:53
Tom McCreary   Tom McCreary
Thanks for the comments. She was excited about every present! I had to use a flash because the room was not lighted very well. It was really meant as an image to give to the parents, but I decided to enter it here, to get your comments.   Posted: 08/17/2018 19:21:32



Jennifer Doerrie   Jennifer Doerrie
Very cute! I agree with Diana's suggestion to darken the background walls some more. It seems to me you also could get away with a tighter crop on the top of the image, too. I'm not seeing too many hot spots from the flash, so it looks like you handled the exposure very well in spite of the tricky lighting situation.   Posted: 08/27/2018 23:02:54
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
I agree that the flash handling has been done well. I recently did some flash photos at a presentation of trophies and failed miserably. Bounce flash wasn't bright enough but direct flash threw up the heavy shadows. In the end I had to use the direct and do a bit of post processing, which was time consuming. The recipients were happy so being unhappy was just me.   Posted: 08/28/2018 03:55:54