My girl Ellie. My original was taken almost one year ago to the date, LOL! June 5, 2005 at Harris Hill
This one was taken in the lot down the street.
shoot in RAW format
converted to .TIFF
layer burn and dodge
layer guassian blur
layer soft light
select eyes
adjustment layer color balance (adjusted blue)
reselected eyes
inverted selection
adjustment layer hue/saturation blue
took all blue hue/saturation/lightness out to make the shirt blend in
adjustment layer/curves
flatten image
usm
saved
resized for DPC
saved as jpg
neat image
saved for web
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Place: 45 out of 161 Avg (all users): 6.3038 Avg (commenters): 7.3750 Avg (participants): 6.0645 Avg (non-participants): 6.4583 Views since voting: 2741 Views during voting: 280 Votes: 158 Comments: 15 Favorites: 0
Wow! She has grown up over the past year. From the first image, she has changed from a cute kid to beautiful young girl. You did a very nice image capturing her beauty to share with us all.
Camera Work/Technical: Your focus is nice and crisp, while the image looks invitingly soft. Excellent work in both shooting and post-processing to achieve a wonderful portrait.
Lighting: I can find no problems with your lighting. You created a very nice flow from the darkness on the left to the nice highlights on the right. This balances the image very well.
Composition/Content: I have two small issues with the composition. First, the leaf on the right side of the frame behind her left ear is mildly distracting. Once the eye is on that side of the image, that leaf grabs it and competes for attention. The second small issue is at the right ear. I find myself wanting to see the rest of it. Moving that lead would help out a bit.
My Opinion: No offense intended to your other images, but this one is my favorite that you have captured. I fully agree with the voters that this one is even better than a really nice original. I personally think that this one should have scored much better.
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