Portraits

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:21 pm 1/400 Manual f/3.2

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:12 pm 1/320 Manual f/3.5

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:10 pm 1/400 sec Manual f/7.1

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:18 pm 1/320 sec Manual f/4.5 

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:11 pm 1/400 sec Manual f/5.6

This photo was one of my favorites, I hardly did any editing, in camera raw I bumped up the sats just a tad on her body, and in Photoshop selected her teeth with the magic wand and hit Cmd+u to change the take down the saturation and add just a touch of lightening. Also, I clipped off the top of her head when I snapped the shot, and I didn't like that at all so I used the content-aware fill tool. I changed the size of the canvas to allow for just a bit more headroom and selected the newly-made white space above her head  and hit Shift+delete and chose Content-aware fill to fill in a new white snowy background, then I used the clone stamp to make the top of her head, and this is how it turned out:

Pretty good!

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/8/2011 6:21 pm 1/400 sec Manual f/3.2

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/7/2011 10:04 am 1/5 sec Manual f/3.2

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/6/2011 10:47 am 1/15 sec Manual f/3.2

On Tiffany, I cropped around her face for a more up-close look, and used the history brush tool on "screen" to lighten the whites of her eyes and the catch light, and then turned it to "multiply" to darken the edges of her iris, then used the saturation sponge tool to bring out her eyes just a tad more. 

Olympus SP 500 UZ Rexburg, ID 2/6/2011 10:48 am 1/50 sec Manual f/6.3

This photo of Tiff was edited to replace the color of her jacket. The original is blue. I thought a nice orangey-yellow would look good, too. I also brightened her teeth just a tad by selecting her teeth then hiting Cmd+u and taking down the saturation. Oh I also added a little bokeh by selecting everything but her and applying a slight gaussian blur.