Hailey

My grandaughter, Hailey again. I am trying out some new techniques photoshop processing. Tell me what you really think. This is first post with new 20d.

Beautiful girl & eyes to die for...............

Char-
I looked closely at the image and was unable to see the artifacts you refer to. That they show here and not in the original is a good thing, right?

I think it is a wonderful image. Her eyes are bright. Some may quibble about whether it is the "right" catchlight but makes no difference to me; plenty of spark in those baby blues.

It does show a narrow depth of field. I'm assuming you had it set at something in the f/2.8 neighborhood...going out on a limb here The areas around the ears look out-of-focus, but hey, narrow DOF...

I think you have a real keeper here. Well done.

Best regards

Thanks Steve. The aperature was 3.5. I edited the image since I posted it, I think it was oversharpened too much for the resize so I added a little blurr to some areas around the mouth and I think it helped. The Tiff looks much better. I am trying out some things I read on Luminous Landscape.

I really like it. BTW, I use Mike's framer too. Very cool script and he's a member of POTN to boot.

I figured out that is noise that I am seeing. Oversharpening made it worse.Thanks Sledhed. I will try it in black and white.

Awesome shot and beautiful little girl. That's "what I really" think".

I think it's a great shot. I've noticed more noise with CS2 after sharpening than CS (unless I'm just getting more acute to that type of thing).

that is a great image....Here is my standard retouching applied to the image.

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My what big eyes she has.
Great capture.

I played around with it a bit too, Char. It really only needed a tad of work-it was almost perfect as you first posted.

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Super shot. Dreamy eyes.

What a beautiful photo, just perfect. She is gorgeous and you captured her so well. I prefer the first one though because there is too much softening around the hairline in the second IMO.

Thanks everyone. Maureen: Did you run it through noiseware? I tried it on another copy but felt it was too much. I didnt expect the noise with the 20d. I have changed my incamera settings to see if it will help. New camera = learning curve.

I like the overall subtle warmness of the original... but the eyes in the eyes just pop that much more. If you could keep the warmness, and have the eyes, that would be the winner for me. But any of them would be lovely framed and on a parents desk reminding them what waites for them at home. Nicely done.