First Christmas

[jbtaylor]

Not been taking pictures lately but have been stalking the forums. My Niece asked me to come take pictures of her husband and 4 month old baby. I suck at flash but love natural light shallow DOF opportunities. Here are a few taken with the 135 1.8 ZA and the a900. All shots @ f.2.
Enjoy.

[aster]

Hi JBTaylor, : )

The first one is immensely cute..There's the suggestion of a big smile. He's a bit 'questioning' in the second and the third...

The light colour is very warm and nicely reflected in his eyes.

Yildiz

[jbtaylor]

Thanks Yildiz.
He was convincing himself that he should be unhappy.
I learned quite a bit though and would do it again if offered the opportunity.

[Dr. Harout]

Cute baby.
Are you sure of the colors? I am noticing a purplish hue (or is it my LCD?)
I am trying to have decent colors indoor without any flash (really hard, I assure you) specially under econolamps with warm light...

[jbtaylor]

Not seeing any purple from my end. I did move the color temperature towards the cool side but that was to neutralize the orange that always comes from indoor light absent flash.
BTW, these were iso 1699 with a little noise ninja applied. Some of the shots were exposed enough not to require any noise reduction.

[Dr. Harout]

My bad, I should've said orange cast, sorry.

[Greg Beetham]

I agree with the cute baby and nice photos for the ISO and lighting conditions, I'm not a huge fan of not using flash to fix the WB though.
Greg