January 22, 2012 – A year of portraits – Mary and Brayden

I spotted Brayden and his grandmother Mary sitting together today before church having a little quality time together as Brayden enjoyed a chocolate brownie. I asked Brayden if it was good and if I should get one and he of course said yes. Mary remarked, can’t have a day without chocolate!

I shot this with my iPhone 4 using the standard camera and after looking at it and the noise (grain) I realized that I should have used my NightCap app instead so I would have had a bit less noise in the photo. However, we work with what we have and I wanted to catch this moment and it was fairly fleeting as I only got off about 4 photos.

I processed the photo using Photoshop CS5 with a slight bit of cropping as I was back a little further than I should have been for this final look. I adjusted the photo using the levels command and then did a little bit of dodging and burning on the photo to tone down the whites and the area surrounding them to draw the viewers eye to them. I then emailed the photo back to my iPhone and used the Photogene app to apply the Polaroid style border to the photo.

Technical Details:
Camera: iPhone 4
Lens: Built-In Camera lens
Exposure: The iPhone doesn’t record shutter speed or aperture information
Apps Used: Photogene and Photoshop CS5