Newborn Baby Remix & Poll :: Utah Infant Photography

I had some downtime today and wanted to play with a photo.  This is from a recent shoot with a newborn.  I picked one image at random and started to apply some effect to it.

The image was originally taken with the following camera settings:

• Canon 40D
• ISO 100
• 1/125 sec
• 1.8 apature
• 50mm lens
• Natural Lighting – In Shade

Straight out of the camera the image looks like this: [Total Time: 10sec]

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On first pass in lightroom I treated it with a bleach bypass/hi-pass filter.  The family was happy with the new effect. [Total Time 1min]

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As I said I had some free time so I played with this image a bit more.  First in lightroom, then in photoshop, then back in lightroom. [Total Time 30 minutes]

Process was:

• In lightroom apply nostalgic filter.
• Export to photoshop CS4
• Apply Alien Skin Bokeh Filter
• Duplicate Bokeh filter layer and set to multiply, then dial down to 50% fill
• Duplicate new layers into one.
• Apply noise filter, Gaussian monochrome.
• Find and two concrete type texture layers and import into new layers in photoshop.
• Convert each new texture layer to smart filter and expand to cover entire picture
• Reduce fill on each texture to 25%-50% whichever looks best.
• Apply Mask on each texture layer.  Get the brush tool and set opacity and flow to 50%.
• brush out the face and some body on each texture layer, multiple passes if needed.
• merge all layers and save.  Go back to lightroom with new file [lightroom automatically updates the file for me ]
• Back in lightroom adjust apply frame preset, then go to vignette box to adjust boarder.
• Change Post Crop [Amount, midpoint, roundness, and feather] to personal taste
• Add additional vignette in lens correction panel.
• Done.  [Total time 30mintues]

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 12:14 pm and is filed under Babies and tagged with Babies, Lesson, Newborn, Remix. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.