Family portrait in B & W

[jbaldocchi]

Some friends came over the other day and asked me to take a b & w portrait of them. I took a lot of images but this one was close to what I was looking for. Let me know what you think.

Jim B.

[GB1]

Properly composed, good angle to shoot from. It's a little on the soft side. Was this film and then scanned? I like the B&W.... seems to work for portraiture most of the time.

GB'

[livin4lax09]

looks overly sharpened, with too much of a radius. what were your unsharp mask settings?

[Frog]

Its a nice family photo.

Which is it, soft or sharp? My eye isn't trained that well

[GB1]

looks overly sharpened, with too much of a radius. what were your unsharp mask settings?

There does seem to be some artifacts there, like a slight halo.

No PS for you!

[livin4lax09]

post the unedited, and let's see what we can do with that!

I only recognize the error in sharpening because I used to do it a lot. lol.

[Ronnoco]

Actually, it does not work very well at all as a black and white, because of the dark colours of their clothes, combined with the dark hair.and the dark shoes that all disappear into the background.

Ronnoco