Beautiful Blues

[mshockley]

A revised photo of one I put here a couple weeks ago. I keep working on it as for some reason I just cannot leave this alone. I was originally and still am concerned about the image being overexposed? I know it's a shame that her hair is in the way of her eye and I couldn't begin to guess how to try and fix that post-process. I have cropped the image tighter than original and did some hand-tinting? This is my first attempt to do that also. But does she look way too washed out because of too much light? Can it be fixed? I had lots of available window light, daylight balanced lighting, and used bounce flash---I'm thinking I got a little happy with the lighting! Any advice is appreciated. Thank-you!


Canon 500D
Canon EOS 55-250mm Lens @ 135mm
F/4.5
1/160
ISO 100

[oldguyrich]

Absolutely perfect. The tones set up the soft blue eyes.. i am blown away by this shot...

[wulf]

I prefer the crop on this one but the colour on the other.

Regarding the hair, the best way to fix it would be to set up a similar shot in future. It would be possible to paint it out (although it would take a high degree of skill to make it look natural) but you would definitely be crossing the boundary from using post-processing to develop your photographs to digital painting.

Wulf

[mshockley]

Thanks Wulf for your help on this. I cropped this and posted, then saw your comment from previous post, so I was happy to see that I was at least moving in the right direction. And I agree, the "tinting" thing I'm not sure if I'm sold on either, but it was good practice and fun to learn how to do it. I do think I'm just going to make her do this again for me! My poor kids, I just kind of grabbed her after school one day and said "hey, come sit over here by this window for me"...lol....she had zero prep time.

[sbakewell1101]

regarding the hair and post processing it out.. there is a website that does it relatively inexpensive, when there are things that i can't get to look quite right (glare mainly) i send them to them and they do a great job... retouchup.com is the website.