In this picture is my daughter dressed up as “Princess Anna from Frozen” during Halloween last year. Everyone knows toddlers are one of the toughest to photograph. One needs a whole of patience to capture a good picture and this is one of those many photos. Although it was her second Halloween, it was the very first time she was about to go for a “Trick or Treat”. She was so excited that she kept moving here and there, and never stayed in a place. So it was hard to set a frame to capture her in her Halloween costume. I decided to shoot her in burst mode and did not worry about the framing of the shot with the plan of editing it later.
Here is the edited version of the photograph I captured last year. I removed the unwanted details in the picture such as the pathway and the vehicles parked. I followed the rule of thirds to make the composition more interesting. The original picture was shot in iPhone’s Portrait mode in Natural light. During the editing process, I switched to Studio light so that the face is brightly lit and increased the exposure of the picture. Finally, I adjusted the depth of the photo to blur the less important details in the background and emphasize the focus on my daughter.
Hi Anna ! firstly what a beautiful picture. I totally understand trying to capture a photo of an excited kiddo lol! I sometimes take the picture on “live” and go through and make and change where the key photo is. Anyway, your way works as well. I see how you moved her to the right of the image and changed the composition that way only other thing I would suggest is maybe play with the effects or colors as there are ways to like brighten her dress or blur out the background so we focus just on her. Overall great work Annie!
Hi Anna,
Great picture and an even better job changing the perspective of the picture when cropped. The child is the focal point of the shot and having it zoomed out it was harder to focus on the main focus point. I like how you did some other edits to the picture to bring out the colors of the costume. The blurry background really brings the focus back to make the focus of the picture. I love using portrait mode on the iPhone it takes much better pictures and you do not even have to edit it. Great post this week.