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[DavidS]

My oldest daughter is really into her dolls. Albeit rather expensive ones. She is growing up so fast. I don't know how much longer it will last. Here are a couple with her Lee Middleton doll. C&C welcome.

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/146008024-L.jpg

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/146008779-L.jpg

[gefillmore]

well, she's a doll too, david-

nice shots-

interesting framing on the second- neat-

[Scott_Quier]

:agree - What a pair of dolls. And, your daughter has such beautiful eyes!

I really like the second shot, the playground equipment (?) does a really nice job of providing a natural framing of the pair of them.

[DavidS]

Thanks George and Scott for the nice comments about my photos and my daughter.

[wxwax]

Oh, that first one is darlng! Her expression is perfect. :nod

[DavidS]

Oh, that first one is darlng! Her expression is perfect. :nod
Thanks Sid. I appreciate the feedback.

[Mrs F]

What a beautiful little girl! I love the first shot. It's sharp and the colors are brilliant.

[DavidS]

What a beautiful little girl! I love the first shot. It's sharp and the colors are brilliant.

Thanks Mrs. F. I appreciate your comments.

[Arnica]

Lovely photos shot by the Proud Dad. Well done.

[photogmomma]

#1 totally cracks me up! I love it! #2 has interesting framing, but #1 is awesome, IMHO.

Have you thought of entering it into "artificial"? Just a thought....

[DavidS]

Thanks Arnica and Andi. I appreciate your kind words.

Thanks for the suggestion of entering it into artificial Andi, but it was shot on 4/2. It takes me awhile to get around to pp sometimes.

[SitterS]

Such a beautiful girl. Nice shots but wanted to ask you about the color. Vibrant so I was wondering if you used the Dan Margulis "color pop" technique (I think that is what it is called) or what did you do to pop the colors in the pictures.

Shane

[DavidS]

Such a beautiful girl. Nice shots but wanted to ask you about the color. Vibrant so I was wondering if you used the Dan Margulis "color pop" technique (I think that is what it is called) or what did you do to pop the colors in the pictures.

Shane

I cheated. I ran i2e after converting my raw image to a JPEG in Lightroom. You can find some discussions on it on the forum. I simply set the white balance and exposure in Lightroom and in this case I added vibrance. Sometimes I adjust the tone curve in Lightroom, but not in this case. Here is what it looked like before running i2e. If I did not run i2e, I probably would have used the tone cure in Lightroom to get a little more pop.

Image before i2e

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/146643947-M.jpg


Image after i2e

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/146008024-M.jpg