I knew as soon as I saw the "Pink" challenge that I'd be taking a picture of my daughter. I didn't count on us being sick as dogs which made for a very unhappy model (not to mention the unhappy photographer coughing constantly while trying to get a decent shot).
Anyway, the thing she's standing in front of is a piece of artwork my mother ordered for her which has "Princess Zolivia" painted across the top. I had her stand in front of her name because I wanted exactly what you see in the photo.
Basically this is what I did:
rotated 2 degrees to the right, cropped, used unsharp mask (84%), slightly blurred her hair and face which was a little too sharp from the unsharp mask, saturated the flowers and her cheek with the sponge tool, blurred the flowers slightly to reduce grain, upped contrast (+30), cloned out a teensy bit of a letter that was showing right above her nose, dodged eye to make it whiter, cloned out slight imperfection on banner (on painting), burned and dodged a little around lips since she was a little pale during the shoot, cloned out darkness around her eyes, dodged darkness around eyes, and burned eyelashes
This is the first photo I've done a lot of post processing on, and I'm still not sure about it, but I want to see how it does.
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I sent you an email about this, but I wanted to leave a comment on the photo. I think this is really great--I like all the different sources of pink, including the blush on your daughter's cheeks. I especially like the way it's composed here--the way she fits in with the background. I see what others are saying about the shadow, but I didn't even notice it until I read the other comments, so while I think it would improve the photo to control them, I don't think it is an issue here.
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