I Heart Faces Photo Challenge "Black & White | Dallas/Ft. Worth child photographer

This weeks I Heart Faces Photo Challenge theme is "Black and White" this image came to mind, I love it!

I Heart Faces

I Heart Faces Photo Challenge "Hugs and Kisses" | Flower Mound Child Photographer

This weeks theme for I Heart Faces Photo Challenge is "Hugs and Kisses".  I felt that this image was appropriate.  My daughter's love each other so much, it's so tender and sweet!  On this particular day I was trying soft lighting, while it's not perfect I felt that the mood and connection was strong.

I Heart Faces "Heart" Photo Challenge | Flower Mound, TX Childrens Portrait Photographers

This weeks I Heart Faces Photo Challenge theme is "hearts", here is my 4 year old posing for her Valentine photos.

I Heart Faces "Beach Fun" Photo Challenge | DFW area, TX child Photographer

I was excited to see the new photo challenge theme for this week, "Beach Fun" from I Heart Faces.  I've shared this image previously after my family's 1st Beach Vacation to South Padre Island that was cut short due to Hurricane Alex back in June.  I love this shot of my daughter experiencing beach sand for the 1st time.  To change it up a bit I tried a different processing technique this time.

I Heart Faces "Fix It Friday" # 59

Here is today's adorable subject for I Heart Faces "Fix It Friday" #59. This photo was submitted by Julie Rivera from Julie Rivera Photography.

Original


My edits:

Cropped, I made a color balance adjustment to remove some red and add a tiny bit of yellow, followed by a levels adjustment, and burned the edges to help pop the subject.

Black and white conversion

After cropping, I made a color balance adjustment to remove some of the red, then levels adjustment, and applied "Lemon Drops, perfect b/w" action.

Vanilla Pop

Again after crop followed by a color balance adjustment to remove red, levels adjustment, and then applied "Bees Knees, vanilla pop" action.

Texture

Used the original color edit, ran MCP's texture applicator and found a texture to apply.

I Heart Faces "Fix It Friday"

This is my first entry for I Heart Faces "Fix it Friday"



Original Image submitted by JaimeLee from Candidly Grateful of her precious babies as newborns.


1st edit, I bumped curves up, added a levels boost, cropped, and sharpened for the web.


Black and white coversion


I used an action called Vanilla Pop on this one.