I know this picture is bright and the focus is off a little, I'm not asking for critiqueing of the actual photo itself but problems i have with lighting/shadowing and how to postprocess it... no flash used here, just a window off to his left and a lamp out in front off to his right.. the window apparently gave alot more light and he has a huge shadow behind him and also his belly's almost white! I figure i can at least fix his belly somewhat in post processing or something, but what do i do about the shadowing on the wall?? I tried to put this into pse and pick the background so i could at least try to get a color over it, but i can never seem to layer him right, How do i pick out my son and seperate him from his background as well as you all do?? and how do i get rid of those shadows or do they need to be gone??? I understand my focus is off in this picture too, but let me tell you he is one active 3 yr old and not about to pose.. this is his typical self- one finger in mouth and totally ignoring you on purpose or else he just makes crazy faces at you and runs away... This is the color of my wall, he just about disappears into it and since ive only owned a camera for 3 days now i do not own any photography backdrops, etc.. so i have to make do with what i have and I'd love to just make the background a different color if anything..
Thanks for any help or if you wanna give a stab at this, please do and then let me know what you did!!!
Becky
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ahhh...gradient, see there's new stuff on pse i learn everyday!
