First newborn attempt

[Jandrews89]

Hey all! This was my first attempt at shooting anything really, and it was a newborn shoot. Any feedback will help, I thank you all ahead of time.

-Jessica

Canon T3i
ISO 800

[fais54]

As far as the composition and lighting, it looks really great! But, the post editing just doesn't work for me at all. The skin softening is a bit overdone, and uneeded to be honest for a baby. I'm not crazy about the selective color either. It all just looks a bit dull. It's a shame because the actual photograph is really good and impressive for a beginner. Do you mind posting the SOOC version?

[Jandrews89]

Thanks for the compliments, but yes I see what your saying about the editing. Thanks for the input. This was my first shoot, and I really do not have much experience with photoshop. Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

[fais54]

No problem! First off, I hope you don't mind, but I did a little edit of it for you. You did well with the picture, so you could really go any way with editing. Also, I have a question, what did you do in order to get that sort of 'looking down on her' POV, I really like it, but I don't how to go about getting it.

[Jandrews89]

I just stood a little in front of the basket and I have a canon T3i with a flipout lcd so i could place it as high as I could reach and still see to take the picture. But the edit looks nice, what did you do?