Fix-It Friday #73 | Raleigh Child Photographer

Since I have proven to be a very sporadic blogger (I know, I know - not cool), and since I have had specific requests (yikes, sorry guys!) for some more Fix-It Friday submissions, I will be doing my best to get busy on both of these tasks starting this.very.day.

Cause I love ya.
And cause it's the right thing to do.

And really, these Fix-It's are super fun!

This week's photo belongs to the uber-talented Keli Hoskins. You must check out her precious blog, the title of which makes me giggle. So cute, Keli.

Really. Just so cute! And a really great SOOC (straight out of camera) capture.

I started my edit in Lightroom (which I do with every photo now ... I'm addicted... I'm not proud). Simple tweaks of temperature, exposure, fill-light and vibrance. Here is the result:

Seriously. Do you see why I am so smitten with that program? I love.

Now. Today being the brink-of-fall feeling day that it is, and being that I have a sort of love/hate relationship with those last few days of warm weather, I wanted to capitalize on the perfect summery essence of this capture.

So, off to Photoshop (CS4) we go...

I used CoffeeShop's Powder Room action (again, I probably use this on 99.898989% of all my images) to get the skin nice and creamy and to define her eyes a bit. THEN, I used a new action (aptly named, Sunrise Baby) from the ridiculously gorgeous actions at My Four Hens to give the image some nostalgic summer glow. Having not been a huge action user, these have made me a believer. So lovely.

A bit of dodging, burning and a quick crop to get the emphasis on her sweet face and...

And a b&w conversion that I am really loving right now, also from M4H - "Strawberry Sunset"...

Hope you enjoyed them as much as I do.

Happy Friday!