Snapshot of a friends 1 month old

TenThirteenTenThirteen Registered Users Posts: 488 Major grins
edited August 12, 2011 in People
Ok, so I took this snapshot, very much not a formal pic, but both the mother and I like it... This is pretty much SOOC, but I do have the RAW file.... Any idea on what to do with it? :dunno He's half Black, and I don't want to 'wash out' his skin, but I know it's a littls flakky and hairy, needs lots of smoothing. Any ideas? I know it's not technically perfect, but we just like it, lol :scratch

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  • TenThirteenTenThirteen Registered Users Posts: 488 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    After looking at it here, it's clear his arm/hand needs to be removed from the BG...
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    I'd probably crop in from the right and then do a BW conversion and some skin smoothing - YMMV.
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  • YaflyyadieYaflyyadie Registered Users Posts: 558 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    TenThirteen wrote: »
    After looking at it here, it's clear his arm/hand needs to be removed from the BG...

    you'r right.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    What divamum said; B/W rendition will help achieve better results.thumb.gif
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  • VayCayMomVayCayMom Registered Users Posts: 1,870 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    most babies have blotchy skin, so work on that rather than washing out his skin tones. I love the way his eyes copy the shape of his mouth here. thumb.gif
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  • sweet carolinesweet caroline Registered Users Posts: 1,589 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    I would also go black and white. One thing I have done to deal with blotchy newborn skin that I want to keep in color is to use a little bit of a beige sepia filter. I wonder what this would look like if you tilted it just a little so the head is angled upward.
  • TenThirteenTenThirteen Registered Users Posts: 488 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    sweet caroline wrote: »
    I wonder what this would look like if you tilted it just a little so the head is angled upward.

    Oooh, I like that idea, :-)
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  • jirojiro Registered Users Posts: 1,865 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    One possible edit on the image, 10-13. I hope I did not offend you.

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  • TenThirteenTenThirteen Registered Users Posts: 488 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2011
    That looks great Jiro, that's basically exactly what I ended up with, haha!

    Thanks!!
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