CCF - "DD chats"

I thought I'd take a trip down memory lane! This is my soon-to-be 5yr old son (DD), when he was Oh so small! He was cutie! I took this on my old Olympus P&S ~ my very first digital camera . The edits are done this morning ~ very quickly so as to not miss the 50 boat! All CCF welcome!!

Original

Camera:	Olympus C220Z
Exposure:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture:	f/3.2
Focal Length:	6.1 mm
ISO Speed:	80

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Initial Gimp edit

(levels, sharpen, remove red-eye, light beige hue layer)

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PSE7 edit

(crop, unsharp on eyes, two rose hue layers (one as Soft light, one at screen), )

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PSE7 edit 2

(used coffeeshot splendor BW action and tweaked to taste)

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Lightroom edit ~ using gimp edit as a base

(cropped, rotated, applied aged photo, punched and sharpened for portrait (adjusted slightly))

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So what do you think ~ what would you do? If I had time I would definitely work with the background more and try to maybe loose the doll. I think the flowers are distracting too ~ I never thought about these things at the time, I just snapped away!! But I am glad I didn't miss this gorgeous shot and that I even have it to work with :)

More CCF to be found over HERE ~ make sure you pay a visit. There is so much to learn :)

PS ~ If anyone wants to play with this photo just click on the original and enlarge, then right click and save the picture to your computer ~ that is the original size!

If you want to start from an edit, you will have to make do with a slightly smaller version (though still pretty big). Same method as above!