Belated Christmas Portrait

[Speed]

I get that all the time at my daughter's soccer games. Everyone makes comments that if they had an expensive camera like mine, then they could get the great shots. Never mind the five years I've been shooting sports, the hundreds of rolls of film I've shot, the countless hours spent reading about photography (and the hundreds of dollars spent on books and magazines). It's tempting to one day hand one of them my camera and say "Have at it." I could burn them a CD and they could see for themselves.

On the other hand, why bother...

Let them think it's the camera.

;-)

[Speed]

Oh yeah, Grandma (my wife) was very happy with them. As were mom and dad (my son), and great-grandma (my mother).

I must admit, I do very minor PS corrections. I have PS Elements 2.0 (which does a lot more than I'm capable of), but I haven't spent the time necessary to really get the hang of the more advanced stuff. One of these days, I do intend to take a PS workshop though. With digital, some post-processing is usually enevitable.

This image was just resized for PR without any adjustments.

Thanks for the comments Brent. I do appreciate them.

[Speed]

Thank you Michael!

You are too kind my friend!

[Speed]

"is there anything more peaceful then seeing a baby sleep?"

Watching him go home?

;-)

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Thank you for the comments!

[walterick]

"What kind of camera did you use?

Aw, come on guys. I take it as a compliment. It says to me, "I like that image so much I want to run out and buy the camera you used so I can take it too!"

You get the "you're a great photographer!" comments after they see your collected works and the high level of good work consistently coming out of you.

My two cents, anyway

[Speed]

"I take it as a compliment." It says to me, "I like that image so much I want to run out and buy the camera you used so I can take it too!"

Good point, my friend. Some people (maybe, hopefully, most) may be thinking that way. It would be nice to think so. It's the ones that give the camera ALL the credit that get to you. It doesn't bother me - anymore ;-), but in the back of my mind, I'm thinking they are showing their photographic ignorance - they obviously do not know that it takes more than a "nice" or "expensive" camera to make nice photo's.

Case in point - Charles Hess has produced more outstanding glamour shots with his old fully manual Nikon FM2n than I have with my N80, Coolpix 5700, F5, and D200 - combined! (My glamour photography is getting better though, and Charles was my motivation!)Yet I get comments all the time about how nice my "expensive" camera is. Then again, maybe I should be shooting more with my K1000!!!!! Show everyone that it's the photographer and not the gear...

"You get the "you're a great photographer!" comments after they see your collected works and the high level of good work consistently coming out of you."

VERY TRUE my friend! Consistently producing good work does get noticed.

"My two cents, anyway"

Two cents - right. Wisdom is priceless my friend! Thank you for adding your pearls of wisdom.

[adina]

In the meantime, Dawn loves it, and has already had 4X6's, 5X7's, and 8X10's made of it to give to family.

And that right there is the measure of a great photo.