Happy Baby

I know, I know. Another silly baby picture, but I couldn't resist posting it.

The light was a bit low, so I had to use ISO 400 and a pretty wide aperture. It's a bit softer than I would like, and a little grainy, but the smile makes up for it.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking.

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I like the shot and the expression is priceless!

Great shot. The subject is placed perfectly and the background contrasts beautifully with the subject. I would suggest using the healing brush in CS2 to lighten or remove the blood vessels (?) between the eyes.

Thanks for the comments. Sometimes I do clean up the blood vessels a bit. But since that's how he looks I usually just leave them alone. But here's a revised version. Since I was at working on it, I tried to clean up some of the ISO noise on the face, too. You can't see it so much in this small version, but at full size it's a bit annoying.

I also noticed that the gold ornament in the upper left corner is a bit too crooked. He was leaning to the side, but the tree wasn't. I guess I should straighten that out...

Thanks again for the comments.

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