Nat and Lauren, some of my best friends, have a new member of the family as of February 7. Easton Nathanael is an adorable baby boy and I feel so lucky to have met him when he was just 8 hours old. Lauren and Nat had Mitzy and me over on Saturday to take some photos of the new family of 4. I haven’t had a lot of experience with baby photography but I love shooting their kids. Their daughter, Harper, has become quite the photogenic toddler especially now that she’s warmed up to me. Here is one of my favourites (D7000 with AF-S 35mm f/1.8 @ f/2.8 1/200s ISO 400):
To give a bit of editing history, here is the image when first imported into Lightroom.
In Lightroom I did a few tweaks to prepare the shot for editing in Photoshop, namely
- highlight reduction/shadow boost
- reduced clarity/increased sharpness
- vibrance reduction
- lens correction
- ‘Camera Portrait’ camera calibration
This is how the photo looked coming out of Lightroom:
In Photoshop I removed some dry skin and red patches (under the nose and the lines on the shoulder). I used the color correction tool to shift some of the magenta tones in the skin towards the green and some local reduction of red saturation. I tried out a new Photoshop preset (a gift from a friend) to get the final look.
Enjoy!
Owen Cherry Photography 