Thursday, February 24, 2011

Bath time fun-SOOC & Edit (54, 55/365) UPDATED

I haven't done photos in the bath since Parker was little...remember the post with Picasso drinking from his tub? That was the last time I took bath photos. You can see the picture here, it's the third photo in the post. Parker was about a month and a half in that photo. Honestly, we don't use this tub very often. We have this chair that Parker uses in the bathtub and he takes showers with me.

SOOC:


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I don't have a fancy digital SLR camera I actually use a Fujifilm Finepix S1000x. It's just a basic point and click digital camera. It does have a manual options so I can adjust shutter speeds and aperture settings, also something I'm learning from my mom. Unfortunately, my hubby won't pay for a higher end camera. So I have work with what I have.

Edit:

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I still have a lot to learn about editing, especially when it comes to layer masks. What took the most time was trying to lighten his eyes. Parker has very dark brown eyes in person, I was hoping to lighten then up just a bit in photos and it didn't really do what I wanted. When I adjusted the colors it darkened his eyes even more and I couldn't figure out how to re-lighten just his eyes. I think I started working on this too late in the evening and I was getting tired and a little frustrated.


Edit 2:

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I toned down the contrast and color saturation. I like this one much better :)

If you have any suggestions leave me a comment, I'd love to have some feedback!



More bath times photos:

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6 comments:

  1. I love what you are going for - I would tone down the contrast and color saturation a bit :-)

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  2. What editing program are you working with again? If you have an option for a layer mask, you can always remove part of your steps from his eyes to lighten them up. I still think it's a sweet picture.

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  3. What an adorable little boy. I love the shot in your linked post with the cat drinking out of the tub!

    Your edit looks nice! I agree with Ashley about using the layer mask to remove an undesired effect from part of the shot. There's lots of videos on YouTube if you search for Photoshop Elements and Layer Masks.

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  4. Adorable photos. I was thinking the same thing about lightening the eyes.

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  5. Ok, I will look up that tutorial on layer masks..thank you for the help :)

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