Rescuing an OOF Infant

[shrinkie1964]

"Before" already had basic exposure, WB, and colour correction in Apple Aperture, but no sharpening:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/3206770460_77353795a3_o.jpg

"After", with selective high pass sharpening about the face and hands, then put thru Imagenomic RealGrain (Portra 160 filter):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3206758094_cbec5a2773_o.jpg

The improvement is more noticeable in larger output, but I can see how at this size some may prefer "before"!

Les

[Chesney]

Great before and after, but how could you go wrong with this face?? So adorable!

[frank abramonte]

Les, beautiful baby.
I think you made too many corrections.
You lost the beautiful smooth baby skin.
Here's a version with just a little Shadow/Highlight adjustment.
Hope you don't mind.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/18noephpAytBGk2sQVzh2IWjXbLpRf_thumb.png (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=18noephpAytBGk2sQVzh2IWjXbLpRf)

[Wendy]

Oh what a sweetie ...

... but I do agree with Frank about the skin :)

Wendy

[shrinkie1964]

In the larger original the eyes are distractingly OOF so I still want to fix that.

Here is another "after" with high pass sharpening applied JUST to the t-zone around the eyes to nose tip. I did without the Portra film filter this time. I just noticed that shot was taken under a bright lamp at F1.6, so the ISO is only 100. I agree now that it is a shame to roughen up a very smooth original:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/3206161169_9b299882d8_o.jpg

Les

[frank abramonte]

Les, last post is much improved.

[Wendy]

Hi Les ...

That last image looks really good :)

Wendy

[ladybug]

The last one is a keeper!

[jhzich]

With all the various comments, suggestions, and even interpretive edits, I thought, why not contribute to the discussion...

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1mUyKDJgVyiIsWiARWiQMCQAgpAt_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1mUyKDJgVyiIsWiARWiQMCQAgpAt)