I want cake too.

[jlange6648]

This is a snapshot I took at my neice's birthday party. What I really like about this shot is that it isn't the girl in the photo's birthday. She's just dreaming about eating the cake.

-Jeff

[Coastal Flyer]

The young lady is terrific but the birthday cake needs candles, regardless of whose birthday it is, and the left side needs to be cropped out. I think that makes an entirely different picture.

CF

[matthewbam]

Cute, cute, cute. Maybe you could crop about a quarter of the left side out to really zoom in on the girl's expression.

[poker]

The umbrella post has got to go. It would've been nice with candles on the cake like CF said. Actually, her expression is so nice that the picture with her alone would be strong enough for me.

[Devin MacShawn]

Great colors. The pink in her jacket, the green in the background, the purple in the foreground, they compliment nicely. How do you feel her skin tone turned out?

[yogestee]

Hi Jeff,,,,this little girl can stand alone without the cake and the distracting clothes hoist on the left...I would crop away one third from the left and turn this image into a deep pic instead of wide..Her skintones look a tad yellow but it could be my monitor..Good use of DOF too..
IMHO this image would look great as a B/W..

Jurgen

[jlange6648]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, here it is again with the colors a bit cooler, and a square crop, how does this one look?

[Devin MacShawn]

Jeff, what do you think of the flesh tones in the original?

[jlange6648]

Devin,
Looking at it closely, her hand does look a little blotchy in the top one, I tried to create a warmer feeling with it, but might have gone a bit too far. The bottom image is "as shot", I think somewhere in between is what I'm looking for.

-Jeff

[Devin MacShawn]

Ok my skills in photoshop are juvenile so I I'm not good at explaining color correction. Last month I bought huge book on color correction. I haven't really looked at it though.

anyhow, I think this is a shot definitely worth playing with until you get the colors you want. While playing around with the color settings, try to get somthing closer to the bottom photo.

[GB1]

Jeff - I much prefer the original shot. The colors and density is very good. But I would sharpen it up a little in a digital software application. The cake isn't so obviously a cake (?), I wish it had some candles to help me Many you can add a few digitally???

Great expression on her there - I luv the shot.

GB