Fix-It Friday #65 at i heart faces

Fix-It Friday time at iheartfaces!!

Today's photo is of Andrea Riley’s cute little boy. Here is the original:

and this is my edit:

What I did:
I opened the picture up in Lightroom 3 and did minor white balance and exposure adjustments then went into CS5 photoshop with it.

I have found that AMP has a fantastic action for pictures that have shadows like this one. It's called Daydream and it's one of her freebies. It can be found here: http://amymcmasterphotography.com/category/amp-actions-lightroom-presets/freebies/photoshop/ I started off by running this action and then I even duplicated that action layer so that I had it twice. I masked out the eyes on both action layers, leaving a little bit on the eye on the right side of the picture that was in the shadows. I also turned off the haze layer in one of the action layers. Then flattened the image and ran AMPs clean it up action, tweaking the layers until I was happy and flattening it again. I also cloned out the very tiny bit hanging out of his nose and blurred the background a tiny bit. Did a slight sharpen on only his eyelashes, flattened and added a tiny frame.

To see what others have done with this picture, be sure to head on over to iheartfaces!

 

365 Project - Day 365!!!!!

WOW! today is Day 365 of my 365 Project! I have really loved doing this blog and have learned so much!! This blog will remain in place and I will continue to try to post something daily on it. I won't be calling it a 365 project anymore or labeling my posts as "Day xx" anymore but it will still revolve around photography and editing and hopefully I can pass on some tips, great deals and inspiration for whoever follows it!

For my "Day 365" picture, I am going to post a couple of pictures taken from a photo shoot I did yesterday with Mirko and Niklas. I choose them to be the subject of the last day of this project because they have really given me extraordinary support and inspiration throughout the last year.

Mirko is so encouraging in his enthusiasm for my work and sacrifices so much of his time to help me along whether we are off trying to catch a sunset somewhere or do some night photography or be my assistant at a shoot or figure out my finances and translate my English into German and put up with me telling him he didn't translate it the way I wanted but I can't tell him what the right words are because my brain is a mash of English/German words and nothing is coming out right... you get my drift. He is there, he loves me, he is my biggest fan and my constant encourager and helper to keep on going in this direction.

And Niklas has been the one member of our family who can't run away when Mommy comes with the camera (well he can, but not fast enough!!) He has been asked, begged, and bribed to be photographed and posed whether he is sleeping, crying, happy, mad, playing, running, eating, using the potty, bathing whatever... My handsome little model!

Thank you Mirko and thank you Niklas!!
And thank you to the countless others who have let me photograph them, have supported me, followed me, "liked" me on Facebook, given me CC, tips, advice, actions, links and have listened when I was frustrated.  I look forward to continuing on with my photography and am so excited to see where this path leads me!!

365 Project - Day 364

Today a few photo props that I had ordered were delivered. I had to laugh when Niklas crawled into the bucket and started using the old phone. This was just a quick snap shot but also a hint of what is coming for tomorrow! :)

365 Project - Day 363

Today my son came home after spending 4 weeks in Canada. 

Do you think he would let me take a picture of him?

Yes, he did let me and I do have permission from him to post two pictures. 

He has promised me that tomorrow I can also do a picture with his face in it!

And of course, Niklas loved the idea of doing these type of pictures and had to join in!

365 Project - Day 362

who says boys can't play with doll buggies? Niklas loves his. He'll push his dolls around or he'll fill it up with cars and tractors and push them around and sometimes, he likes crawling in there and lets one of us push him around!