Halloween this year almost didn’t happen for Gabi. Maybe it was the a years worth of build up–last year’s made such an impression–or maybe it was her lingering cold. Whatever it might have been she begged out of the festivities in my parent’s town the day before and dragged her feet almost all the way into this evening, refusing to get dressed and insisting that she wanted no treats. She relented at the last minute, after having gotten into her pajamas for the night, and began to get genuinely excited about the prospects of roaming the town green gathering sweets and looking for ghosts and goblins. We quickly dressed her, gathered our things, and bundled her into the car before sweet went sour. Thankfully, she enjoyed her night out under the moon and with leaves rustling underfoot she reveled in her favorite holiday.
These are amazing photos! You’ve really improved fast, to the point where I’d call these professional
Glad she had a good night in the end
Thanks! You are way to kind! I’m totally unsure of what I am doing to improve as it seems for the past year all I do is shoot pictures and unless someone demands I turn them around quickly I let them sit on the server waiting to be processed. I’m at a three month backlog at the moment. :-/
On the technical end, these were shot between ISO 800-1600 with a 50mm f/1.4 less in aperture value mode. Post processing was done using UFRaw for adjusting exposure and crushing black, and Gimp for color and hue correction.
I really love these photos. Incredible lighting. I’ve been using the external flash as a crutch lately and need to get back to my 50mm.
Thanks! I’ve really come to love what a really wide aperture can do and since most of my shooting is candid portraits of Gabi that 50mm has become indispensable. I’d like to eventually get a speedlight so I can better shoot in the murk that is our home after sunset but if given the choice I’d probably choose a camera that can shoot cleaner images at a higher ISO, natural lighting is so much more expressive (plus it’d be one less thing for me to botch the shoot with!).