want to PP this photo?

VayCayMom

I would love to see how others would PP this image, it is sooc via Lightroom, I don't think I did anything to it, and I gave it a general crop. Pardon the off color due to my use of floor and table lamps to help brighten the light in this north facing window.
This is my favorite from a recent session I requested from a friend of mine, I did the baby shower and then the baby at 2 months, so I wanted an updated photo of this beautiful toddler.

I am not sure if this is the best way to post an image for others to work on, if there is a better way, tell me. And I have already edited a version. I think I will post mine later. The talk about over done skin and eyes in children's editing got me thinking this would be a fun experiment ! Maybe even enough for a new category???

briandelion

Trudy, great idea either for children's category or in general, just to see how others interpret the same image in post processing! Will give it a try after this hectic weekend.

dixonduke

OK... I played around a bit in lightroom with it.

What do you think?

Hackbone

Here is my simple go at it.

Svennie

I would turn it in to black/white:

cj99si

Keep it simple.

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2.


3. old school

VayCayMom

Oh I love it that people are doing it! I think it helps with perspective in several ways.

In this image there is a bit of a challenge with the skin, there are dusky patches on her lower face and she has a very faded but large birthmark on her forehead, so improving those issues without too much softening could be tricky, where do we draw the line? When she would cry and start to melt down like all toddlers do at some point her birthmark gets much darker. In fact I forgot all about it, since it had been ages since I last took her photo, until we had been at work for an hour and it began to redden.


1. When people are doing any c&c, there are always variables..monitors, personal tastes, monitors, lol.

2. This gives a base to refer to.

3. I always wonder if the suggestions of a commenter would improve it when started from sooc image.

I can't wait to see more. I am glad I decided to post mine later, keeps the pool clean !

pathfinder

This original image is too yellow, and a bit small to edit color well.

It is tempting to white balance of the white dress, but I suspect it is not really white, but a very, very light blue. I get more satisfactory results by white balancing off the small end of her mobile phone which I am pretty sure is a real black. When I use that the skin tones begin to look better in RGB numbers and LAB numbers - in LAB a and b are both positive, and b>a on the back of her hand.

The background is grey that varies from yellow to blue tinged on my screen due to the mixed lighting at the time of exposure.

The B&W renderings above look pretty nice to my eye.

TenThirteen

NeilL

This is a bit like doing a cover or a remix!:D

Lots to like about the original. I kept pretty close to it. Used exposure adjustments, levels, curves, sharpening, cloning.



















Neil

Darren Troy C

Love NeilL's version.

Sventekoz

Thanks for this. Here's my attempt. It would obviously be better with the original file to work on.

VayCayMom

How can I make the file available, and could it be RAW?

Svennie

VayCayMom wrote: »

How can I make the file available, and could it be RAW?

Could you upload to smugmug? I tried a PSD file, but that was not accepted. Maybe raw-files are? Raw is best: more info in the file and the whitebalance in this jpg seems to be off.

mpaulie

Here's a quick edit, made the BG white, add a little pop then a texture

met

Here is my quick take on it.

B&W version.

studio1972

Not done anything to the cropping or background, just some work on the face:

80weeks

Lovely photo!
Here's my quick attempt in lightroom... now to look at what everyone else came up with!

Sam

OK here is mine.

Sam

denisegoldberg

VayCayMom wrote: »

How can I make the file available, and could it be RAW?

You could upload it to someplace like Dropbox - http://www.dropbox.com - to make is accessible to folks to download and edit. And yes, you can upload the RAW file.

--- Denise

reyvee61

What a fun thing to do and there's some great renderings here!

Here is my quick edit:

VayCayMom

denisegoldberg wrote: »

You could upload it to someplace like Dropbox - http://www.dropbox.com - to make is accessible to folks to download and edit. And yes, you can upload the RAW file.

--- Denise

I tried to upload a RAW file to my Smugmug account, it didn't work.

denisegoldberg

VayCayMom wrote: »

I tried to upload a RAW file to my Smugmug account, it didn't work.

You can't upload a RAW file to your smug account unless you have SmugVault - and that wouldn't be available to anyone but you. When I said you could upload the RAW file that was in the context of Dropbox, not smug.

Did you try Dropbox as I suggested above? You can upload any type of file there, and you can specify that a file be available to others.

--- Denise

VayCayMom

denisegoldberg wrote: »

You can't upload a RAW file to your smug account unless you have SmugVault - and that wouldn't be available to anyone but you. When I said you could upload the RAW file that was in the context of Dropbox, not smug.

Did you try Dropbox as I suggested above? You can upload any type of file there, and you can specify that a file be available to others.

--- Denise

well of course I did not, that would be sensible and following instructions . I have used Dropbox before but I deleted the software and this thread is losing interest, but I will next time. Thanks !

VayCayMom

Ok here is my version which I completed before I began this thread. I'd love to play..... will someone else post one of these?

NeilL

This is a very nice result, Trudy. My reservations would be skin tone, and overall punch. To me, the girl's skin seems still a little yellow (how do magenta and yellow compare? They both should be under 30, and yellow only slightly more than magenta on average). And I think her figure needs to come slightly more forward out of the bg. The black top also seems to have lost highlights. But what I say is only gilding the lily, really.:D The girl's face has a nice natural look, which was the main point of the exercise, I think.



Neil

Jeremy Winterberg

Ok, decided to have a go at it.

dave.turley

Agnieszka

oh I'll play ... added some texture, just for fun ...