A friday lunch time a couple of weeks ago my daughter danced at a senior citizens club. The lighting was terrible and the backgrounds hard to work with. I got a load of crappy photos and no decent ones of my daughter! However there were a couple that turned out pretty good and this was one of them.
I used this threadto help me with my editing. The first time I have really used layers ;)I cropped it slightly at the top to cut out a distracting bright strip of light, I think it improves the look of the photo but makes it more of a centered composition not sure if thats an improvement!
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I'll add to this.
In Photoshop, take this image as it is here, and try this:
Image, Adjustments, Match Color, then in the settings box, check Neutralize, then slide the Luminescence slider on the top to about 130.
A one-step quick color correction while maintaining the soft pastel feel here.
How's the layer practice coming? Aside from using a soft light layer (see idnic's excellent tutorial), try using a reflector to bounce light back onto her face from below. I use a piece of white posterboard - it doesn't have to be expensive. Her eyes are so beautiful, you want them to shine. :)
Sweet. Doesn't show a lot of "dance" though Maybe a closer crop getting rid of the armpits would help. Maybe framing it as a head shot would be better.
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