before and after - swing

I am participating again in Pixel Perfect's bloghop - before and after.

before - original

Whoa - crazy picture. I have no idea what my settings were, but clearly they

were not correct :-)

The only thing I like about this photo is Logan's expression.

What you can't see is that

she was looking up at her Daddy about to give her a push -

Her little expression in this picture -

makes me smile

after

I decided to embrace the fact that I obviously chopped off

her hand in the original, and crop it even closer. Also embraced the

funky haze and converted to a nice warm color.

Edited in Lightroom

You can still vote - she's falling behind - haha, she's only competing with about 90,000 others!

http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/id/7/w/23/y/2010?page=392&esrc=nwphotofaves4_2

before/after

This is my first before/after post, I decided I would join Monica's bloghop this week! I took some pictures of Logan a few weeks ago, and one thing I wanted to incorporate was her crib bedding. We picked out her bedding long before she was born, and it was something Cody and I both immediately agreed on. We looked at hundreds, and kept going back to this one! We love it and we hope it lasts a while, and she will love it too. However, I know one day this bedding will be long gone, and I wanted something to be able to show her the bedding her Daddy and I picked out for her.

                                                             This is the original - SOOC

it looks over-exposed, yellow, and the wrinkle in the background drives me nuts!

After:

I edited in Lightroom:

boosted blacks, cloned the wrinkle, adjusted white balance, fixed her skin tone,

straighted the horizon and boosted clarity

a nice, clean edit :-)

This is from the same set as this picture - a b/w conversion.