My Niece

[gooble]

What do you think?

[shilophoto]

she's sooooo cute. A little WB would be nice :)

[gooble]

It was white balanced but I did a cross process look on it.

Also, this is an ISO 3200 pic. Does it look like it yes/no?

[shilophoto]

wow 3200?, I wouldn't have known

[shilophoto]

would you mind if I played with it for fun?

[gooble]

would you mind if I played with it for fun?

Go ahead. :)

[Bill Boehme]

Very good composition.

Yes, the noise was one of the things that I noticed. The light level must have been very low since the shutter speed was fairly slow at 1/80 second and the aperture was at f/2.8. Considering the circumstances, I would say that you got good color from the image. ISO noise can be handled quite well with plug-ins to Photoshop such as Neat Image. Here is an edit that I did in which Neat Image was used to reduce noise and also sharpen the image. I also worked on color balance, but I found that it required much more than the usual amount of work probably because of the very low level lighting. Anyway, I don't think that it was really necessary to tweak the colors because the lighting as you have it in your image helped to set the mood of the image.

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[gooble]

I did run it through noise ninja, mainly to get rid of the chroma noise. Then I added a film grain layer via overlay to kind of mask the remaining noise.

As for the color balance, I started out balanced for daylight as this was lit from late afternoon sun through a window. However I tweaked the RGB curves for a cross-processed look which. The skin was red, but that was kind of the look I was going for.

So nobody like those skin tones? If I wanted them natural with the cross-processed look, how would I go about it? Bill, what did you do to fix it?

[Bill Boehme]

Sorry about undoing what you had done. I thought that the noise looked a little different than typical ISO noise, so the film grain explains that.

I had assumed that the light source was from low level incandescent lighting based on your exposure settings, but I was wrong. The natural light must have been weak and perhaps somewhat colored by the room lighting.

The "right" color is when you achieve what you want and not what somebody else who wasn't there conjures up. I had presumed that I was fixing color from incandescent lighting that was causing the image to look too orange or maybe magenta. I don't remember all of the steps that I went through to change the color, but I do remember adjusting white balance in ACR and then adjusting the color sliders. That still didn't "fix" it so I did some additional tweaking in Photoshop using Selective Color adjustments. Looks like I really "fixed" things up ... undoing all of your effort.

[richardyoung]

yea.. it has a '70slook.. not a digital camera look.. I think it is the noise and the processing..

[kelly&hercamera]

The angle could have been better. Doesn't do anything for me.