C & C on the PP please!

mc1979 · Apr 18, 2011

This pic is hilarious just because it captures my son's personality..had to get in there and stir things up to ruin big sis's photo.
What i'm looking for in critique here is on the PP using a vintage preset in Lightroom that I did a little adjusting to. Personally, I love this look. Did a whole set of them on some pics I took over the weekend and loved them. But not sure how others will feel about it. What say you?

20110403-DSC_0107 by mchatham79, on Flickr

Speckles · Apr 18, 2011

It's not my cup of tea. I don't like the greenish/blue tint it gives the skin. I do dig your son's face. LOL

MissCream · Apr 18, 2011

Did you iris enhance your sons eyes?

bennielou · Apr 18, 2011

I think your son is hysterical in the photo. Too cute.

As for the processing, I'm not sure which Vintage presets you are using, but vintage and cross processing (this looks more like cp to me) is very "fashionable" these days, at least in my part of the world. I think it's a really cute photo, and I don't mind the processing at all. The only nit I have, and it's a small one, would be to extract that pole on the far right side of the frame.

mc1979 · Apr 18, 2011

MissCream said:
Did you iris enhance your sons eyes?

No, he just has really blue eyes and I suppose this preset brings them out?

mc1979 · Apr 18, 2011

bennielou said:
I think your son is hysterical in the photo. Too cute.

As for the processing, I'm not sure which Vintage presets you are using, but vintage and cross processing (this looks more like cp to me) is very "fashionable" these days, at least in my part of the world. I think it's a really cute photo, and I don't mind the processing at all. The only nit I have, and it's a small one, would be to extract that pole on the far right side of the frame.

I'm not at home to see which one exactly, but when you say cross processing, what does that mean exactly? New to this!

shufti · Apr 18, 2011

I have difficulty disassociating the picture style from a certain era of the 20th century. For me, it looks the early 1960's and i wonder why kids of 2011 would be portrayed like that. I understand that others may well see it differently.

bennielou · Apr 18, 2011

Hi Mc1979,
There are several different cross processing techniques and some get a very green hue to them. Like Shufti said, it tends to give off a very 1960s polariod kind of look. It was a look that used to happen in the film days with certain processors. I'm never been a film girl, so hopefully someone with a background in film can give you a better explaination.

Anyhoo, at least in the wedding business, cross processing and vintage has become very popular. The reasons clients have given to me is that it makes the photos more like their Mom's photos, which they have always admired. Recently though, I've also seen a lot of Senior photos being done like this, and those kid's parent most likely weren't getting married at that time, so it could also be a "trend" like textures and selective coloring.....or all of the above.