Easter afternoon, the kids (my daughter and nephew) were out in the front yard, and someone grabbed a camera. The kids posed. I had my camera with me and banged out a couple, despite the splotchy light. I didn't have high hopes, but when I saw my daughter's expression in one photo, I had to see if I could salvage it.
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by Dingbat Shutterbug, on FlickrSplotchy light. Distracting, busy background. Ugly fence she decided to hold on to. etc etc etc. So I cropped in tight to do what I could to get rid of the background, and then went to work trying to fix the lighting. All edits have been in LR so far.
I pushed the recovery all the way to the right, to cut the highlights, and then used fill to bring up the shadows. The result was my nephew having a green hue to his face. I'm guessing it's because my daughter has a lot of reflected pink on her face, while my nephew is getting green from the grass and tree. I played with the green/magenta and blue/yellow to try to mitigate it, but to me it still feels a little green. I need opinions.
I'm guessing that to fix it, I'm going to have to mask off his face, and just adjust color there, because if I pushed it too far using just LR, my daughter's face got too pink.
I'm looking for any other suggestions as well. Did I crop in too close?
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