Black and White - Siblings

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gohan2091

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I was taking some candid shots of some of my siblings and decided to make these black and white. I would like critiques on all 3 if possible. Did I do a good job? or do they look bad? I welcome all comments positive and negative.

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ohkphoto

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gohan2091 said:
I was taking some candid shots of some of my siblings and decided to make these black and white. I would like critiques on all 3 if possible. Did I do a good job? or do they look bad? I welcome all comments positive and negative.

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I think all three of them are quite lovely. Each pose well suited to the child . . . even the second one that you shot from above, works. Excellent job. I especially like the rich tone. What did you use in post-processing to BW? Photoshop? LR? or Silver Efex?
 
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gohan2091

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Thanks all for the comments. So they aren't too dark? I shot with a D7100 for these and they all were hugely underexposed so thanks to Lightroom, I was able to fix this. I increased the shadows to +100 and highlights to -100, set the whites so they slightly clip the edge of the histogram, and set blacks so they also clip slightly on the opposite side. I increased contrast, bumped up the clarity. Using the retouch brush, I painted over the shadows to darken and over the hightlights to ligthen. I've only been photographing for just over a year so this is all pretty new, and I find feedback very useful!
 
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gohan2091

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I decided to upload the photos directly to the forum so people don't have to click on an external link. My main reason for returning here is because I totally forgot to mention how I shot these if anyone was wondering or comes across this in the future. With a TTL cable attached to a SB-700 speedlight (and Lumiquest Softbox III). I held the camera in my dominant right hand and the speedlight in my left. I crossed my left arm over my right and raised the speedlight slightly above and beside each sibling. I underexposed the ambient and let TTL flash do it's thing. The lens I used was a 16-85mm.
 
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