Little Girl portrait

How about some re-decorating?

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SVThuh wrote in post #16275186
Image editing is now turned on. I never thought to turn it on..

I like the feedback and I have messed with it a bit more.. How does this catch your eyes? Im trying to keep the brightness down a bit, which is difficult. If I set the white point to the whites of her eyes, it gets really blown out everywhere else.

I agree with the white balance comments. I took this photo a couple of years back and never really did anything with it, though I have always liked it, and recently I got the bug to actually do something with it. I may actually print an edit I really like and send it to her mommy. I now shoot with custom white balance profiles or at least some of the presets if need be.

Maybe check your monitor.

Here's my try. Using CS6, I adjusted white balance, contrast and darkened the background in relation to her face to make it appear brighter.

Here's my go...

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navydoc wrote in post #16276964
Here's my try. Using CS6, I adjusted white balance, contrast and darkened the background in relation to her face to make it appear brighter.

Now that is a nice edit, even though on my screen the white of her eyes looks still a bit blue-ish, especially the left eye (her right). But lovely. Well done, Gene.
The other edits all look bad to very bad to down right hideous!

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #16277008
Now that is a nice edit, even though on my screen the white of her eyes looks still a bit blue-ish, especially the left eye (her right). But lovely. Well done, Gene.
The other edits all look bad to very bad to down right hideous!

Thanks Levina. I didn't want to go overboard when I lightened her eyes. I think it can look fake if the whites are too white so I tried to stay conservative.

For the fun of it, here's the original as it transforms into the edited version.

^^^ Nice!

navydoc - very nice edit, very natural looking.

Very nice indeed Navydoc.. Thats good stuff right there!

I didn't care for the partial head showing on the lower left and thought the background on the right was a little busy, so I cropped it to an 8 X 10 portrait orientation. I also thought the background was a little nervous, so applied a little "lens blur" to smooth it out a little.
Here's my edited version:

I think we are all loosing the purpose of the shot, and my vote goes for bob_r

Good idea for a fun thread though. Someone posts a shot, people come in and edit it however they want to improve it, and after a week, the original; person chooses a winner, who posts the next shot.

Maybe this should get moved to the competition thread? lol. I am really enjoying seeing the different edits.. I wish my PS skills were as strong as my FCP skills.

Gene, that is a sweet thing you did there with the differences moving..and the edit is great. I did a B&W I sent ..

I've started a competition thread based on this idea. It's HERE.