I had originally wanted to shoot a pic of my kids hugging each other and giggling away. But both of them were just a bit out of sorts and stiff. So I twisted Aimee's arm into hugging her little girl. Well - it wasn't much twisting. The twisting came in trying to get Rowan to not give a fishy face opposite Aimee's calm motherly tone. This came from the 2nd session with Rowan. I tried with Aimee and Aidan in between and had some fun outtakes. Not really a stretch for me creatively speaking but then I havent really been focusing on alot of photography lately. Shoot for a challenge here and there. Life with my congregation has taken precedence. And really - would any dad be dissapointed with having an image of his two favorite women that looks like this?
Low challenge count and a clean image like this - I am hoping for it to score well. Hoping for at least a 6.5. Should get a decent number of low votes though - very recognizable image. We shall see.
Editing steps - LR conversion, b&w conversion in PS, couple of curves layers, NI, USM, S/H, crop, resize, USM again, guassian blur faded, selective color and I think one last light USM.
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Huge congrats for the ribbon Tim!!!!. Man, I agree with Phostumous about the credit to Aimee and your whole wonderful family for getting three ribbons with the same portrait formula: 1st ribbon ; 2nd ribbon....and this one. It might be a record that could be broken only by yourself.
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