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This turned out great. Wonderful focus and great outfit popping the face and losing much of else. I may be completely off base here but I'm wondering if you put a level of gaussian or similar blur or did a combined action to smooth out his face? If not and it's just crazy baby smooth complexion--that's fine. If not, my feeling is that you went to far in smoothing the face; to me it just isn't needed. I nothing done and just his face, my apologies. Perfect for the B and W onversion and nicely framed.
From a distance this is beautiful, but up close there's a lot of pixelization in the eyes. There's also a little around the nostril and the mouth. I imagine you were attempting to bring more sharpness, because as we all know, babies are squirmy, and the kiddo probably moved a little out of your focus. I know you probably wanted a super sharp, crisp shot, but it probably would have been alright prior to the sharpening. Babies are soft, so I think it's okay to have a little softness in your focus when photographing them.
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