Photo Advice Please

At a family get together my cousin & I posed for this "40 years later" picture. It’s amazing how similar we look!! (I’m the baby) Notice I’ve got the same goofy smile and I’m fat and bald again, he has almost the same spiked haircut.

I forced the backgroud blur on the new photo. Should I rotate the old one so the door in the background left is not askew. I changed that from black to a similar gray.

Any advice for improving the composition technique? Placement of white matte, background color, etc? The second face in the old pic is blurred but I guess there is no need to repeat that. He wanted me to take the clothes line out of the old pic & put the new one on the old background but that looks like it would be tough to do and probably look fake

http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug
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"Paul Furman" wrote in message

At a family get together my cousin & I posed for this "40 years later" picture. It’s amazing how similar we look!! (I’m the baby) Notice I’ve got the same goofy smile and I’m fat and bald again, he has almost the same spiked haircut.

I forced the backgroud blur on the new photo. Should I rotate the old one so the door in the background left is not askew. I changed that from black to a similar gray.

Any advice for improving the composition technique? Placement of white matte, background color, etc? The second face in the old pic is blurred but I guess there is no need to repeat that. He wanted me to take the clothes line out of the old pic & put the new one on the old background but that looks like it would be tough to do and probably look fake

anyways.

http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug
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My two photographer’s cents:
Just leave everything as it is now. These are great photos, nice portrait light and the backgrounds are very graphic but not too busy. Maybe just crop the first pic to get rid of Doug,s hands. They open the picture to the bottom and two the left for no good reason, distracting from the real subjects.
Applying the same crop on the right picture would allow you to get rid of the lighter zone right of the pants hanging on the line.This will "close" the pic nicely.
Frame them side by side as you presented them on the webpage.I bet you everybody walking in front of this frame will have a nice comment.
Stephan

At a family get together my cousin & I posed for this "40 years later" picture. It’s amazing how similar we look!! (I’m the baby) Notice I’ve got the same goofy smile and I’m fat and bald again, he has almost the same spiked haircut.

I forced the backgroud blur on the new photo. Should I rotate the old one so the door in the background left is not askew. I changed that from black to a similar gray.

Any advice for improving the composition technique? Placement of white matte, background color, etc? The second face in the old pic is blurred but I guess there is no need to repeat that. He wanted me to take the clothes line out of the old pic & put the new one on the old background but that looks like it would be tough to do and probably look fake anyways.
http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug
-click the picture for a full size version

Thanks!

At a family get together my cousin & I posed for this "40 years later" picture. It’s amazing how similar we look!! (I’m the baby) Notice I’ve got the same goofy smile and I’m fat and bald again, he has almost the same spiked haircut.

I forced the backgroud blur on the new photo. Should I rotate the old one so the door in the background left is not askew. I changed that from black to a similar gray.

Any advice for improving the composition technique? Placement of white matte, background color, etc? The second face in the old pic is blurred but I guess there is no need to repeat that. He wanted me to take the clothes line out of the old pic & put the new one on the old background but that looks like it would be tough to do and probably look fake

http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug
-click the picture for a full size version

Thanks!

I opened up your file and flipped the younger shot horizontally so the four of you were looking at each other. Then I cropped the right side of the mature picture so the black sleeve blended in with the second pair of pants in the young picture. Then I merged the two photos into one. It looked great, but I accidently deleted the result before I was able to upload it here. Sorry, trust me….it looked good. Flip the toddlers horizontaly…trust me…and crop out the pants and the big hand. "Paul Furman" wrote in message

http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug

http://www.edgehill.net/2003-1963-paul-doug

Lemme guess…your cousin’s name is….er….aahh…..Doug…right???
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