How To Crop This, Help..!! [Archive]

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Lurch

11-05-2008, 17:32

Not normaly shooting people i never have a clue, this was an 'approach and ask' shot as i have trouble resisting newborns and puppies and i would really like to try and make it as nice as possible for the couple as they were so lovely, so any thoughts..??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/marcbibby/baby-tp.jpg

pampers

11-05-2008, 17:37

Not that I know alot. But I would not crop it. It looks fine as it is.

11-05-2008, 17:43

I thought her ears looka bit...messy, distracting? So I would go for a crop along these lines, and a bit of pp'ing to smooth skins, sharpen and boost the baby's eyes, usual sort of portrait stuff. This might be a bit overdone, but you get the idea.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1673/lurcgedit.jpg

jobe

11-05-2008, 17:48

I would crop in portrait and lose the shiny lughole, is a bit distracting I think.
edit : Ooops sorry LadyLens you beat me to it.
Wayne

Banath

11-05-2008, 17:51

:agree:

Halesowen Kid

11-05-2008, 17:58

Similar crop to LadyLens but I've cloned out the hair band & slightly lightened the image.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/baby-tp.jpg

Centurion

11-05-2008, 18:12

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s202/CentrionM/FinEx.jpg

Just a bit of a filter
Chris.

Centurion

11-05-2008, 18:19

Sorry wrong pic....:bang:

Runs away to read instructions to upload a pic.....:whistling:

Centurion

11-05-2008, 18:20

Will read tomorrow....

elektro

11-05-2008, 18:27

LadyLens have done the best crop

admirable

11-05-2008, 18:46

Yep. I go with the Ladylens version!

hunter20ga

11-05-2008, 19:19

One more for LadyLens! Nice picture to work with, BTW.

Lurch

11-05-2008, 19:53

Okay firstly thank you all very much for helping, and LL that is a geat crop thank you very much, what did you do to her skin to make it look smother..?

11-05-2008, 22:53

Sorry for delay in replying - I cropped the picture, then used CS3 to apply a surface blur [I have only just found it this weekend and its fab for portraits if applied sparingly], found from Filter Menu>Blur>surface blur. An alternative would be to apply a little gaussian blur then some sharpening round the eyes, or use the brush on about 15% opacity to lightly airbrush the skin, but I find this new version of blur much nicer and more natural.

Lurch

11-05-2008, 23:00

Fantastic, thank you :)