Pensive by banehawi

I like your lighting in this portrait and your granddaughter's thoughtful pose.

Silhouette Reflections by Scooby10

Your patience was certainly rewarded with the sky.

Nice silhouette and very well presented.

Amelia by Crazius

So very cute!!! She looks very content and very happy to pose for you.

New Year Sunrise, Loch Mealbrodden Stone Circle, Perthshire by Colin_Leslie

Great detail and colour!!

ZAPPP by thefoolintherain

Light painting always seems to be a technique where you can have lots of fun and you have portrayed this in your photo with an interesting idea I have not seen yet.

port & stilton... by JanieB43

I so should do a image just like this........

.......if only to finish of the port and cheese before I press the shutter.

Great still life and very nicely lit.

Happy New Year by Craggwildlife

Happy New Year!!!

Kelsey by scrimmy

Great portrait!! She looks like she is enjoying the shoot.

Happy New year by stu8fish

Such a simple technique but with patience it can produce very interesting patterns and colours as you have captured here.

:) by 74tash

Great fun portrait!!!

Pot of Magic by BeLLa35

Very well thought out and I like the effect.

Energetic Picture by AndyD999

Hi Andy.

Without knowing your exact setup it's a bit of a guess but your exif info says that your flash did not fire so therefore you must have used other lighting to create the exposure. Due to the nature of the shadows cast by your subjects I am assuming that it was an overhead light in the room that you used.

Did the subjects come out slightly underexposed also? If so then it would probably be a case of just dialing in a stop or two of negative exposure compensation as your cameras meter would have been fooled by the white background and tried to expose the scene as a mid grey. This should render the background more white and hopefully expose your main subject properly.

If your subjects were exposed correctly then it may be just a case of using a reflector to bounce more light into the background so it is properly exposed as white or you could use a desk lamp to light the background and diffuse the light with tracing paper or some baking paper. This can be tricky as you will also have to make sure the extra light will not fall on the main subject which could leave it over exposed.

Eitherway, getting the main subject and the background exposed correctly in camera will leave you with the maximum amount of detail to work with during post processing.

Slow recovery by kforeman

So cute!!

I had four hernia's just before I was one year old and have had no problems since my ops and that was back in 1971.

With medicine today I am sure he will be just fine and his rough start will not affect him later in life.

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Eddie.

Jamie Battison missing in Eyemouth by daviewat

It would help if people can click the facebook, twitter & google+1 buttons just below the description.

Should get the message out quicker I think.

Yellow by jamestheboy

This is a really good effect and the background works very well to compliment the main subject.

This reminds me of this Dispersion Effect Tutorial but it looks like your version is just as competent.