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spring 2004 Keith Trammel

"Sister in Waiting" by Keith Trammel

Victor, NY studio

Image of pregnant mom with 3 year old daughter. 2x2 larson soft box suspended by boom arm over subject. subjects standing on large silver reflector. 3 yr. old is standing on thick yellow pages phone book just to get her to stand in one place formore then 1 second :) When I figure out how to add EXIF data I will do that. Image was processed in PS7 by converting to BW with my own actions and adding several noise layers, softlight layers and gaussian blur layers. Somtimes I fail to document the exact actions and create as I go so the look is often difficult to exactly duplicate.

Kodak DCS 660,Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR ,digital file

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kodak_challenge04-Dec-2004 01:23
Lovely strong, soft light. She looks as though she's holding the whole world in her hands! ---Kim
kodak_challenge03-Dec-2004 10:52
That's much better - lovely shot.
Kind Regards
Jono
kodak_challenge03-Dec-2004 05:05
I fixed the size and the blob :) I blanked out my logo before posting and my monitor is set up for my printing environment and I did not see the blob on my monitor.. thanks for pointing it out to me!
Regards,
Keith
kodak_challenge02-Dec-2004 14:21
Heck of an image. Like it lots. Agree with the other comments about the blob - looks like maybe a signature was removed? A quick Photoshop fix should see to it. - Quentin
kodak_challenge02-Dec-2004 12:55
HI Keith - great to see you entering, and this is a really splendid shot.
Couple of points though:
First of all, shots should be a max of 800 pixels on the longer side, and not more than 200k we aren't too strict about rules, but this is quite a lot bigger.
Second, as Flick says, there seems to be a black splodge on the bottom right hand corner (the mother is pointing straight at it), it would certainly improve things if you dealt with that at the same time as resizing.
Kind Regards Jono
kodak_challenge02-Dec-2004 07:51
This is gorgeous - except, what is the strange black blob lower right of the picture?
But I love the softness and the light.
Flick.