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 01/28/2007 06:45:08 PM · #26
These are all interesting - thank you all
 01/28/2007 06:45:11 PM · #27
Originally posted by Greetmir:
My guess is ... that this boy (when he is a teenager) is gonna HATE the fact that this photo ever existed, especially if he ever finds out about how many people discussed his blotchy skin and ... stuff ... heh

That green belly makes him look like a CSI victim.

Edit for spelling correction ...


Ok, this one made me laugh out loud! I say print out this thread and show it to his girlfriend when he's in High School! :)

edit: Just because I can, here's my take on the image editing:


I did some Shadow/Highlight adjustments, very slight gaussian blur, and then tweaked the curves a bit. Sharpened the eyes and called it good. :) Personally, I prefer the softer look for baby pictures.

Message edited by author 2007-01-28 18:56:56.
 01/28/2007 06:59:04 PM · #28
Interesting, green is the most sensitive color to the eye, but I don't see it. I went back to fully saturate the greens to see what is really there and I didn't see much, except for around the tummy, which I believe EBJones pointed out (CSI victim).

But, at least that is easily desaturated.

Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by David.C:
Originally posted by PGerst:
... Desaturate if you like BW. I like to see the texture in the skin (blotchy) so I left it on purpose.


The blotchy doesn't bother me as much as the greenish skin ... which I hope I'm not the only one seeing.

David


The green was the first thing I saw, heh
01/28/2007 07:29:00 PM · #29
IMO, baby pictures typically shouldn't include genitalia, although if it's a snapshot in the old family album, that's not as bad. I'm not trying to be a weirdo here; it's just something I realized the first time I had a newborn in the studio. Ever since then, I flip them on their tummies or I have something to drape over them.

Plus, you're lucky you didn't get a little fountain in this picture! :)

Kim
 01/28/2007 07:35:30 PM · #30
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I'll break with the crowd and say I am not a fan of the soft glow - on this particular image anyway.

Here's a 3 minute job:


NeatImaged slightly
Converted to BW using Levels
Adjusted levels to get the desired tones
NeatImaged again - even more slightly
Added color to produce subtle sepia look (little red, little yellow)

Lots of ways to go with this shot - especially with the original large image. All a matter of taste / preference.


Art,

You may not be a "fan of the soft glow", but your version sure uses it effectively. Neat image, of course, can produce a nice glow of a different sort and you've done it very well here. I like this treatment.

Greetmir,

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm no more deserving of them than a slew of others on this site, including Art himself :-)

Robt.
 01/28/2007 07:59:07 PM · #31
Originally posted by moswyn:
IMO, baby pictures typically shouldn't include genitalia, although if it's a snapshot in the old family album, that's not as bad. I'm not trying to be a weirdo here; it's just something I realized the first time I had a newborn in the studio. Ever since then, I flip them on their tummies or I have something to drape over them.

Plus, you're lucky you didn't get a little fountain in this picture! :)

Kim


I agree with you for the most part - but I wasn't letting what seemed like a good photo go to waste.

He's only 7 weeks old, so flipping on his tummy didn't work so well (tried it). He's not strong enough to hold him up with his arms yet, and just craning his neck up looked weird.

I didn't think of draping anything over him - maybe next time.
 01/28/2007 08:12:16 PM · #32
I had a little girl come in a few weeks ago (in fact, I entered her in a challenge) that was only three weeks old. We found that when we put her belly-down on a firmer surface, we could position her head so that it faced towards her shoulder and the camera. I agree that newborns are hard to position. They're so dang floppy!
 01/28/2007 08:14:02 PM · #33
Here's my attempt...



I arrived at this through a bit of a round-about exercise. I'm using CS3 and so I tried CS3's B&W layer for the first time ever. I thought that was kinda cool, but I didn't like what it did to the baby's eyes. So I masked out the baby's eyes to bring back the color. That was sorta cool... b&w picture of the baby with colored eyes. So then I applied neat image to drop the texture down a bit (the B&W image really showed a strong texture). Then I applied USM at about 40% at a 60pixel radius. That's what gave it the glow effect. Then I used the history brush at about 30% opacity to paint back the original color.

01/29/2007 02:54:13 AM · #34
Though I love color conversions, I decided to go with a more natural look that gave the impression of better lighting. Hope ya like it :)

01/29/2007 02:29:18 PM · #35
I wanted to go with a more subdue feel. Almost "womb-like"..yep...that's a professional term...lol! The thumbnail looks a lot darker than the full size image, btw.

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