A nice sibling photo

[SusanAshlea]

I did this shot for a friend of mine this weekend. She wanted a nice photo of her and her brother's to give to the parents and grandparents for Christmas. I have only been doing photography really since May and this was my first indoor gig. No backdrops, no lights. I just used my Lightsphere and the fireplace at her brother's house. I am please with how it turned out.

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After:


Pretty much all I did was work with the levels and curves adjustment layers to bring out some contrast and darken up the background a bit. I wanted to see some more detail in the washed out bricks. Then I worked with hue & saturation to get the skin tones as correct as possible (luckily I had all of the "models" right next to me to compare to while I was working). Finally I used this tutorial to darken the faces so they didn't look so bright. Also, I cloned out the white space on the wood door to the right.

[marcal]

Nice PP, just a bit, not excessive. However, the sweater of the girl is missing some detail, maybe too much brightness, don't know. I find the background a little bit distracting though... just my feeling.

Anyhow, I'm sure that parents and grandparents will be more than pleased with this nice picture.

[windrider86]

Very lovely. A wonderful image to hang on that fireplace!