On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at the picture before reading your post, and my very first thought > was that her skin looked too pink. It seems a bit unnatural to me. > Personally I would leave well alone. What kind of light did you have, > natural or artificial? My preference, which probably won't surprise anyone, > is for natural light and that tends to be best for all skin, in my view. > I'll look at the skin tones again... I shot this in natural light.
Thanks, -c > B > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Christine Nielsen >> Sent: 09 November 2011 20:28 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: PESO: My Baby Fix >> >> Hi all, >> >> Here is an image I've been working on: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/6329908364/in/photostream/lig >> htbox/ >> >> My friend brought her new baby over so I could try some portraits... >> the idea had been to capture some of those adorable, curled-up, >> sleeping-baby poses... However, baby Dahlia had other plans, so I did >> my best to roll with them. >> >> Looking at the images, I'm finding that baby skin is tricky >> business... I see a lot of newborn portraits that are over-done >> (imho), in terms of skin smoothing. I did clean up minor blemishes & >> spots, and tried a few other LR adjustments... but nothing really >> addressed the blotchy appearance of her arms...I don't want Dahlia >> here to end up looking plastic, but I don't want that issue to detract >> from the image, either. I could spend all day trying out different >> interventions & comparing results, but I thought I'd get some feedback >> first... >> >> Would you address the blotchy? Or leave it? >> What would your go-to method be? >> >> Thanks in advance for your thoughts, >> :) >> -c >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
