What’s Your Preference?

irishmuth · #1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2010, 06:10 PM

More of a snapshot than a portrait, but thought it fit best here. I'm usually the one snapping pics, but my wife picked up the camera and snapped this picture of our daughter with the camera settings from whatever I had shot last.

I edited it twice to correct sharpness and WB in Photoshop and I thought each looked good when I was done. Then, when I looked at the edits side by side I realized my WB correction was way different in each and I can't decide which is better.

I'm also not sure of my crop. The original is here and my other edit is here. I think I prefer the edit below, but any help on the crop and WB as well as anything else would be appreciated.

1/80
ISO 800
F1.8
Focal Length 50mm

Jamie Hibbert · #2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2010, 06:41 PM

I actually like this photograph. I think I would loose some of the left side in the crop.

The other thing I would try is to de-saturate the skin tones a little.

SusanH1970 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2010, 06:44 PM

Hiya Mike. You've got way too much pink going on. Can you post a SOOC?

irishmuth · #4 (**permalink**) 02-20-2010, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SusanH1970

Hiya Mike. You've got way too much pink going on. Can you post a SOOC?

There's a link in my text to the original as well as one other edit I tried.

SusanH1970 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2010, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irishmuth

There's a link in my text to the original as well as one other edit I tried.

LOL, sorry, I had a blonde moment and didn't see that before.

What editing software are you using? If you have Photoshop, try this:

Image>Adjustments>Selective Color

Put it on Red and reduce the magenta.

Hope this helps. I played around with it and got the skin tones to look more natural. Adorable baby!

irishmuth · #6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2010, 12:39 AM

Better?

SusanH1970 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2010, 12:48 AM

It still looks bright pink. Is your monitor calibrated?

irishmuth · #8 (**permalink**) 02-21-2010, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SusanH1970

It still looks bright pink. Is your monitor calibrated?

no it's not : (

SusanH1970 · #9 (**permalink**) 02-21-2010, 04:23 AM

That may very well be your problem. A reasonable calibration system is Spyder 2 Express. You can pick it up on Amazon for about $70. There are newer ones that are more expensive, but that should serve you well.