Kate Portrait

Very nice. Lovely smile. Great that you got her hands in the portrait. So important. Some crop and adjust would add. It's a keeper.
Jeff

@jstout thanks. Totally agree. What's in this image is the full scanner gate with no crop and no post processing adjustments outside of the standard negative inversion of my digitization process. For a final image, I'd probably crop it vertically and pull the shadows up just a bit to open up the camera left side of the face. The scanner native resolution is 4200 dpi, so I still have a fair amount of resolution left to still get a reasonably large print if printed digitally.

'Certainly a lovely portrait. The crop looks better. Possibly future efforts might include portrait orientation in the camera to make use of as much of the small neg. as possible.

@HiHoSilver Thanks. I usually try to do portrait orientation in the camera, but she ran up, popped that pose right in front of me and I barely got the camera turned on, hit the focus button, and clicked the shutter before she was zooming out the back door into the back yard. Kids move fast, and she is especially so. She struggles with a brain disorder that severely impedes her ability to articulate speech, and it also affects her fine motor skills, and attention span. She never sits still, and almost always runs and jumps over walking, and just goes, goes, goes. Getting a shot of her even remotely close to still like this is very rare.

With that being said, it is 400TMY-2, it's pretty tight grain for 400 speed black and white. If I popped it into an enlarger and exposed a 4x5 sheet of paper with an approximation of the cropped version, it'd still look pretty good. Then all I'd have to worry about is adjusting the shadow side of the face to bring in a bit more detail on the paper.

Either way, it's a total keeper.

Excellent call - get the shot, then worry about getting it right/perfect. I've not tried to get active children while they knew I was shooting. 'Have to have them focused on their activity & unaware of the photo. Nice work on short notice.