The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1 year later) - Comparing my progression

[theantiquetiger]

I made this exact same post last year (we do it every year).

Here is the link to the thread and images I took last year http://www.photography.ca/Forums/people-photography-portraits-sports-etc/16274-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-please-critique.html

Images from today

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8088403568_394767dc23_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8088403128_e679680047_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8196/8088401721_dc096e64a8_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8326/8088402305_914904f081_c.jpg

[Runmonty]

Really nice AT. Big change from last year. You have nailed the lighting and those eyes are great.

[Marko]

These are far better on many levels AT - sharpness, comp, lighting.

The only area that is the same is the cuteness of your kids!

[Iguanasan]

Wow, quite a difference. Love the new shots. Now, is this the same gear? Are you processing differently? What, to you, made the biggest improvement?

[theantiquetiger]

Only difference in gear is the lens, Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 (last year I used a basic lens or maybe a 50mm), plus I now use Lightroom instead of GIMP for processing. I also used my basic flip flash on these because it was getting late in the afternoon and the lighting on their faces was getting dark (I need to get a speedlite).

While we were there, there was a young couple doing the same with their baby, but they only had a camera phone, so I took some and emailed them to them.

I know I cut off her feet, but she wasn't to cooperative and these two were the best I could get

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8190/8090965255_438f722e22_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8187/8090965767_689f16b9b9_c.jpg