Zoo Kids!

[guppiecat]

So one of the odder things about going to zoos without kids is that all of the parents look at you with great suspicion when you take photos of their children. So it was quite the treat to go to the Brookfield zoo with all the buttons and fishes. I spent very little time getting photos of non-primate animals, but took a lot of shots of the wee ones that were running and rolling around with us.

Some things I learned:

* Sticks are neat
* Dirt is AWESOME
* Dirt is so awesome, it is of vital importance to check that it's still there
* Brothers are puzzling

I will point out that I don't have a lot of experience taking people photos, much less of children. I pretty much just followed the "have the camera ready, push the button" method, so they might look a bit different than my other photos. However, the set is here.

Also, before you jump to the highlights, I want to say that this is the first set I've completely processed with my new monitor and colour-management system. Since I am colourblind, I would greatly appreciate input as to it looks compared to my earlier stuff. If I've screwed up the colour, I'd like to catch it before I go too far into this system.

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

Love the smile on the first one :) The sleeping baby is nice too :)

I do see a bit much red in the cheeks, but that may be because the little fellow is rosy cheeked as opposed to the color being made more red if that helps any.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

He is chronically red-cheeked. I love the picture of Ellie looking puzzled. Heck, I love all of them.

[guppiecat]

Well, you know. I did have a brother. He was, at times, quite confusing. :)

[guppiecat]

(Do have a brother. Did have a brother as a child. Tense is confusing too.)

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

Yeah, his face is perpetually chapped sadly, so it's probably not added in. Rosy cheeked is such a nice thing to call it though.:)

[beki.livejournal.com]

I believe my daughter prefers the term peaches and cream.. with a side order of strawberries ;)

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

I love that half the time it looks like Ellie is thinking "WTF?" in pictures. She looks like that a lot less in person.

[guppiecat]

Being a baby is probably puzzling too.

Especially when a strange person is walking around you going "click click" all the time.

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

Heck, being a grownup is puzzling!!!

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

I am giggling at your icon 'cause I can just *hear* that sloth going "i gotz mah boxxxxxxxx hehhehheh!"

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos. I think the color looks spot on.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I can't comment on the color since I don't know what the originals were (and I tend to be somewhat color-insensitive anyway).

However, the third picture and the one near the end with the pacifier -- oh my ghods those blue eyes with the spangles.

[gingicat]

What beautiful children! Color balance seems good to me.

Out of curiosity, does the older one have Down's? Doesn't seem to stop him being an awesome kid any more than any other Down's kid I know, it's just the facial shapes and body language that tagged it for me.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

He does, yes. :)

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Exposure is so your friend.

There are a lot more puzzled sister shots in the full set. I love the full set as much as the highlights this time around. Wow.

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

Buttonlass looks GIANT.

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

*has been adorabled to death* When kids are really absorbed in stuff, they seem to take on a whole new level of photogenic...ness.

I was going to mention some orangey glare on a couple of the pics, but since no one else has mentioned it, it's very probably my monitor. Mostly I love the colour and contrast balance, it seems perfect.