not much editing here, a teeny bit of sharpening, a teeny bit of gaussian, although neither were really needed. also worked with the color tone a bit, it was a little orangy
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First Impressions, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW how cute!!!!!!!!!!!
Second Impressions, it appears to be a little soft. Eyes in portraits usually have to be tack sharp. I believe that a lot could have been done in post processing with her eyes, there is an amazing tutorial on how to make eyes pop on here. A little crop on the right would have really made the baby stand out.
You did better than me and rightly so. I'm not sure that there was an unusually high count of good pictures in this challenge, but there were few if any seriously bad ones.
I dare say the 1, 2 and 3 voters felt somehow offended on behalf of all babies and parents anywhere ever. Then again, voting may be the only chance they get to crawl out from under their rocksget their rocks off have fun.