Mommy and Son shoot

I did a fun mini-shoot yesterday with my sister-in-law and of course, my ever constant subject, Matthew. It is so much fun finding different spots to shoot at and then seeing what you can come up with. This is the best hobby in the world.

{Leavenworth area lifestyle photographer}

Fix-it Friday

This week over at my new favorite site, iHeartFaces, they gave us this image to fix up.

Besides the basic correcting, there a million things you can do with a picture. I'm on a muted-colors/vintage kick and so I chose to turn mine into this:

This is one of my absolute favorite things about photography and editing: the ability to turn nothing into something. There are many times things come out brilliantly straight out of the camera (SOOC) but sometimes they don't. If you know what you're doing, you can take a photo you never thought you would like, into a photo that you love and would hang in your home.

Some highlights of what I did (I know I should have been making notes step-by-step so I could share but I forgot):

-First and foremost, I used the healing tool to get rid of his little blemishes

-Curves adjustment to lighten it up

-Sharpened

-Added a skin tone layer to smooth the face out and then lowered the opacity

-Added a layer mask to the skin tone later and erased the eyes so the blue would shine back through

-Adjusted the channel mixer but checked monochrome color to get a nice b&w effect and then lowered the opacity of that layer to about 70.

-And finally, I adjusted the levels and the contrast.