My Daughter for Easter

[flashgangster]

Here's a photo from last night. CC is welcomed. It's my daughter, so you have to say she's cute at the least.

 

[The_Traveler]

OK, she's cute


but I think she is also tilted, over-saturated and the WB looks way off.
What color is the wall behind her?

 

[flashgangster]

OK, she's cute


but I think she is also tilted, over-saturated and the WB looks way off.
What color is the wall behind her?

Thanks!

She is tilted. That's one of my pet-peeves and I actually didn't fix it! You're absolutely right.

The WB is off. When I adjusted it (I used a WhiBal card in the setup) it looked horrible! It's about 1400 to the cool side in this edit. The background is white seamless, lit by a SB600 directly behind her. I shoot on white seamless or black seemless almost always. I left the WB here because I thought the purpley pink thing going on added to the "charm" of it all. I know that kills the souls of many photographers. The saturation was left alone, I think the jacked-up white balance might be giving the oversaturated feel?

I may try an edit closer to what the WB should be and post it here.

 

[flashgangster]

I didn't mean to post the picture of the back of my camera? I thought I deleted it during the post. Oh well, it's a bonus!

 

[jenko]

The shot works for me. It's a cute baby portrait. My only suggestion would be to try and change the background color--cream/off white might be nice--also straighten and crop just a bit off the top.

 

[OLaA]

The picture came out great besides the tilt and white balance as already stated. The WB on back of the camera looks fine. Seems you may have gone a bit to far with the cooling. Love the dress and the ears!

 

[The_Traveler]

I think the color tint works great except for the skin surfaces.

 

[flashgangster]

Well, this is doing exactly what it's supposed to... I can't wait to do a new edit. I think I'll fix the tilt and crop (you guys are totally right. I ***** about people who tilt every day of my life and now look at me.. doing it myself!). I think I'll put the WB where the gray card says it should be and do a mask to pull the WB for skin tones and leave the background how it is. I like the purpley stuff. Thanks everyone!

 

[Buckster]

The WB is off. When I adjusted it (I used a WhiBal card in the setup) it looked horrible! It's about 1400 to the cool side in this edit. The background is white seamless, lit by a SB600 directly behind her. I shoot on white seamless or black seemless almost always. I left the WB here because I thought the purpley pink thing going on added to the "charm" of it all.

Maybe correct the WB on a separate layer, then mask so that you get proper skin tones while leaving the rest a cute purple hue?

Edit - I see now that you've already come to that conclusion!

 

[flashgangster]

Here is the WB corrected version. Like I said, it was about 1.5k on the cool side. I actually think this one looks better now. Thanks for the feedback, folks!

 

[jaxx419]

Did you apply skin softening? Looks like it was applied up her eyes too if so. They look soft.