project?

[LightWriter6208]

Taken of my granddaughter and her daddy shortly after I got the S2. Feel free to play with it...would love to see what someone can do.

[LightWriter6208]

another one

[HulaMike]

Here's a simple levels and curve adjustment with just a touch of sharpening. Didn't want to overly sharpen such a warm moment.

I thought about lightening the offending nipple (a little distracting) but then again....we all have at least two. And a crop above killed the nice hand gesture.

Its a wonderful pic and I'm sure you're a very proud granddaddy! Congratulations.

[Wilm]

Lightwrangler,
BTW,
congrats being a grandfather now. Your granddaughter looks very very young to me. Approx 4-8 weeks ?

;) Wilm

[LightWriter6208]

Hi..thanks for the comments. I like what the sharpening did. I knew the nipple was a distraction, but like you I couldn't crop without losing "something". BTW...I'm GrandMa...lol
At the time Emilee was about 4 weeks old.

[HulaMike]

Whoops! Congrats GrandMa!!

[Wilm]

Whoops too :eek:

(Sorry for that ) But congrats anyway !

The shots of my children from 1st minute ´till 5th year were ´pre´-(D)SLR. Not worth a post :mad: Love my S2, love the impressing photos of your grandchild !

Maybe, she will have fun with the S897 in 15 years :rockon:

Wilm ( happy father)

[LightWriter6208]

Thanks again guys...I hope I'll be able to afford to buy her her first S????? in 15 years.
It took a long time for me to post anything...I was a little intimidated by everyone at first. You all are so much more experienced than I am with digital and editing. Then I thought, what the heck...what better way to learn than by posting whatever and getting it critiqued by the experts. I can't begin to say how much I've learned from this forum and I find myself reading the posts much more than I do anything else on the puter(I need a life). I just recently learned from someone at this forum that I can still use my manual 500mm with the S2..all this time it was sitting in the bag presumably useless. I'm a lot more motivated to get outside even in the yard and just take pix. So be prepared!!!

:D

[Linda G]

Yes, everyone has two, unless they've met up with an unfortunate accident (I've been listening to too many stand up comedians!) but even if it wasn't a nipple, it was detracting from the image. There are other ways to minimize something besides cropping it out. :)

I used the magic wand to select the lightest part of Dad's chest and after a feather of about 3 pixels, I used the burn tool to darken the area. I would have to go in to clean up the baby's arm, but here's a quick idea.

[HulaMike]

Much nicer.

[LightWriter6208]

I agree. I knew Linda would be able to figure something out:)

[Andre]

I guess we should her Linda the Nipple Tamer :)

(/me ducks)

[Tom V]

Lightwriter,

Hooray for your granddaughter!

I worked in levels by sliding the right triangle to the left to the first significant pile of pixels, then went to curves and bumped up the midtones a little for a slightly high-key look. Two hits with the dodge tool supressed your mammary gland outlet. I sharpened it a bit with 100%, 1 rad, 10 threshold (so I would not emphasize skin detail nearly as much as hard lines such as hair and fingers).;)

[LightWriter6208]

I like what everyone is doing with this. I went back into CS and cropped it to this:

[LightWriter6208]

I shoulda done that to begin with I think

[HulaMike]

I experimented with about the same crop only I took off more of your son's (in law's?) hairline to tighten it up even more.

Why are you staying with the dark image? You like Silver prints?

[LightWriter6208]

I just went in quickly and cropped it...didn't mess with anything else. I actually kinda like the darker tones to it though, although I really like what everyone has done to brighten it up.

PS..it's my son

[HulaMike]

Comprendomundo.

PS: You should reload your avatar. We don't know what you want to look like here.

[Linda G]

Tom,

I like that! Does the same conbination work with a color image?

[Tom V]

Originally posted by Linda G
Tom,

I like that! Does the same conbination work with a color image?

Sure does!

:beerchug:

[LightWriter6208]

I only took that in B&W...I took a couple pix of Jeremy and Emilee in color, but i like the b/w better.
I'll see if I can find something to post for an avatar. It will probably be fictional so I don't scare anyone.

[LightWriter6208]

this is the wrong category for this pic, but wanted to keep it in this thread. I don't care for this as much as the B/W.

[Roger Ele]

Hi, beautiful feel in this photo,

I found a straight levels adjustment to be too harsh, I duped the layers, changed to screen mode at about 30% layer opacity. Did some selective lightening and darkening and a slight curves adjustment. Then cropped both sides, I like the way dads haircut mimics the babys...

Roger

[LightWriter6208]

Roger...I really love what you did with that...beautiful job...wish I'd have seen that before I made a 20X24 for them for Christmas.
I teased my son about their hair styles being the same.

[LightWriter6208]

I hate to say it, but the more I read some of the posts, the dumber I feel...lol

[thanz]

Cropped a little tighter, quickmask on baby, G. Blur on rest, removed background over shoulder, added slight toning, level adjustment, yada, yada, yada.

Great shot anyway!

Todd

[LightWriter6208]

Cool effects Todd..I like it