My steps:
crop
clone out baby's feet sticking out from under her dress
levels adjustment layer
hue/sat adjustment on baby
used eliptical marquee to select out baby, selected inverse, new layer via copy
hue/sat to desat boys
erased out baby parts that got captured
selective sharpening on eyes and hair of boys
flatten
followed Tut on model makeover on the baby's eyes juuuust a hair to clean up the whites
Sharpen
USM
Dodged in the catchlights in baby's eyes
resize for challenge
Neat Image
save for web :)
My poor boys were ready to kill me by this point :) This was day two of trying to get this to look right. Day 1 the main model got crabby ;)
Post Challenge:
Well, I now realize that I really really needed to sharpen it one more time LOLOL but, anyway, here is the sharper version:
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE LOVELY COMMENTS AND VOTES :) wooohoo!! a new PB!! yayyyyyyyy!!!
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This was brilliantly posed and excellent thought put into it. As soon as I saw it, I understood what it was all about. Your children are going to cause you some problems when they grow up, all heartbreakers!!!
Hmm... happened upon this one again. I think I like it even more on a second look. I didn't realize these were all your children! Wow. You have a gorgeous family I must say!
FANTASTIC. *note to self: add Johnna to mental list of people who like shooting their families*. Isn't it wonderful to be able to create such nice memories?
I ADORE this. The contrast between the center child and her brothers is fantastic. The boy's faces say everything beautifully, yah shes cute but guess what...we are damn awesome too. Yeah props!
That is gunna be one spoiled little girl! I like this very much. I hope it does well, DPC is not often kind to child photographs. It's so strange... I don't know where to look which is usually a bad thing but works so well for this photo. You should be very proud.
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