The “rules” say you should follow the rule of thirds, so if I did things properly then Kai’s eye would be at a 1/3rd intersection point. However, at this close I liked having more of his head in the shot than his body, so that eye line being darn near in the center region of the frame doesn’t bother me one bit. Perhaps it is because I’m his dad, but this shot works for me (the customer in this case) so who cares!
This handheld shot was taken with a Canon 1D-Mark III using a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens at f/2.8 and 1/160 sec at ISO 400. I was using a hot shoe mounted Canon 580EX II with a CTO gel while I laid on the carpet with my son. There was also some natural light coming in from a window that helped a bit as well.
I processed this shot in Adobe Photoshop CS4 using the techniques described in Scott Kelby’s 7 Point System book, plus a trick from Matt Kloskowski where I use the high pass filter and an overlay blend just on his eyes to give them more of a glassy look that you’d see in real life.
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