Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
In the edit I changed the overall tone of the picture, sharpened it and increased the contrast. What still bothers me about the photo are the shadows on the little girl's face. Maybe something else? Please let me know! I always appreciate constructive feedback :)
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Those curls are ADORABLE! What a little cutie pie.
Hi there! I would probably have tried using the dodging tool in photoshop to lighten up some of the shadowed areas.
Here's my play with your photo - details of what I did are there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43882120@N00/3707513814/
Ah, flourescent lighting - the bane of a photographer's existence. Yuck. Wanna know my simple fix? Convert it to b/w. Yes, you can spend lots and lots of time attempting to color correct, but at best you'll be left with a just-ok image. For me, it's just not worth the effort.
There is a setting on your camera for flourescent light. Honestly, - it'll give you slightly better results, but it will still be a mediocre color image. Indoor, flourescent lighting just isn't pretty for portrait photography.
How's that for opinionated?!? ;-)
Anyway, here is a link the edits I tried on your picture of this darling girl:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skeller5/3707674300/
I converted to b/w. Lasso'd the area around her eyes and bridge of nose and opened up a curves adjustment layer; pulled up the curve to lighten this area. I then used the patch tool to lighten her undereye shadows (again, indoor lighting doing us no favors) and lowered the opacity til it looked ok. And I cropped.
In my recent wanderings on the net, I've learned that if you go into your curves adjustment, on the default RGB set click in the middle of the line and drag upwards, it will lighten then entire photo, then you can mask and blend as needed.
I work in Corel PSP, so my workflow will be different than yours, but it's described in my take on your child's photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27406072@N03/3711388353/
Thanks for the edit! It looks great :)
Thanks for the advice! I actually did that for most of the pictures I took that night :) Or Sepia, like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yelenarovenskaya/3627789158/
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