Daughter's portrait

Here is one of my favorites of my daughter. She calls it her fisherman shot. She picked her own clothes by the way. It is colorful anyway. I shot this with my CP5000. The camera was tripod mounted and connected to a SB-28 speedlight via a SC-17 cable. The flash was bounced off of a 42" umbrella on a lightstand. The flash was in TTL mode and angled at 45 degrees. There was a Photoflex 42" soft gold litedisk on her right side and she held a 22" soft gold litedisk in her lap to eliminate shadows under her chin and brim of the hat. I shot it against a solid white background because I wanted to replace the background in photoshop later. However, here I wanted you to see more of a raw image before editing to display the camera's capability and not my ability to use software. Enjoy.

http://www.pbase.com/image/881228.jpg--Tim Curtis

Cute shot. I envy parents in this forum - so many photo opps! I think the lighting is very well done. The only thing that I think could be enhanced is the sharpness. Looks a little too soft (for my taste anyways)

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--Sasha ObadCoolpix 995Canada!gallery: http://www.fototime.com/inv/F584C1ABE81E273

Thanks Sasha. I agree on the softness. I haven't tried to sharpen it yet and the camera was set to low sharpening interally. I checked out your gallery too. Very well done.

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Tim Curtis said:

Here is one of my favorites of my daughter. She calls it her
fisherman shot. She picked her own clothes by the way. It is
colorful anyway.
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Good afternoon Tim,

Thanks for sharing a fun picture. Yes, it certainly is colorful. I assume the softness is on purpose?

hugh