As you can tell this is my first real post to the blog that I set up back in October 2008. It's crazy that I have never posted anything to it. Life has just gotten in the way :)
I recently found the I ♥ Faces blog and love it. I love seeing other people's photos and learning from them. I have a passion for photography and have become completely obsessed with it for the past three years.
I took this photo last month of my youngest son, Jack. The sky was overcast that afternoon. I love his expression in this shot. This is a typical face I see from him and was so happy to be able to catch it on film.
Here is the SOOC shot. I took it using my 50 mm 1.4 lens. As you can see it is a little dark and the colors are too dreary for my taste. The yellow bush in the background was a brilliant golden yellow during this time, but it seems too muted in this shot. EXIF data : f/4.0, 1/500 sec, ISO 200, 50 mm.
In Photoshop I adjusted levels and ran MCP's Eye Doctor for this version. This edit is just OK to me. I am still looking for that "Wow"!
I decided to try one more action and ran Pioneer Woman's Colorized and love this one. This is from her 2nd set and if you don't have her free set of Photoshop actions, then you should jump on over to her site and download them. They are really fun!
The only thing that I don't like about this last edit is that I completely lost the golden colors of the bush in the background. However, I do love that my son becomes the focus of the shot where the background may have taken away from him before. What do you think?
I appreciate all of your thoughts and I plan on becoming a regular on this site. Thanks for stopping by!
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