My daughter has just come home from a friend’s birthday ‘pamper’ party where they all had their hair, nails and makeup done.
I took the opportunity to rattle off a few frames before she has to return to normality for high school tomorrow.
I’m not a big fan of heavily photoshopped portraits with super smooth unblemished, tango coloured skin, on a size zero female.
I’ve literally made some contrast changes and lifted the eyes ever so gently, and removed one or two spots that are appearing. Hover over the shot for the original.
Not much thought went into the shot except for location (living room), choice of lens (70-200 F4L), lighting (bounced flash) FEC (+ 2/3 IIRC), and a little editing.

It was my son’s 5th birthday earlier this week, and naturally the camera came out. I caught him trying to blow two balloons up at the same time (unsuccessfully I might add).
I’ve also been trying new processing styles, using the tutorials from Chromasia.

Bex and Sam at the Metropolis Studio in Liverpool, Christmas 2007.