I Heart Faces Photo Challenge - Smirk

This week's Photo Challenge over at IHeartFaces is "Smirk". I took this picture of my son Tyler at the park the other day. He and his sister were playing innocently when a rubber band was found on the ground. It was quickly turned into a slingshot :)

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Fix it Friday #71

It's time for Fix it Friday again :) This is a shot from a senior portrait session that I did NOT take but am "fixing" it with post-processing software for a fun activity. I use Adobe Lightroom 2 for all of my post processing.

Here is the SOOC (straight out of camera):

Here is my first edit. Really the main thing I did here was use the adjustment brush to boost the sky so it isn't so blown out. I also boosted the contrast and added a vignette.

Here is my 2nd edit. I copied my first edit and then cropped it, dropped the saturation to 0 and boosted the contrast.

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I Heart Faces Fix-it-Friday #70

This little girl is too cute :) This was a fun photo to "fix" although the original was great as well! See below for my edits

SOOC (straight out of the camera) Original:

My Fairytale edit:
My Summer Haze edit:
My Vintage edit:
I use Lightroom 2 for all of my edits. I brightened up her eyes and used presets for the last 2. The Fairytale one I boosted the contrast, warmed up the picture, softened the clarity, brightened up her eyes and boosted the yellow.

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I Heart Faces Fix-it-Friday #69

This is my first entry in the Fix-it-Friday on iheartfaces.com

So here's the deal. This photo was not taken by me. It is provided by iheartfaces.com in order to take it and edit it anyway you'd like. Just some fun practice.

I use Adobe Lightroom 2 for my post processing. Still learning it too.

So here is the SOOC shot (straight out of camera):

I'm calling this edit the "Summer Haze" edit:
Here's my "Chocolate" edit:
And the B&W edit:

So I did these edits last night and I used some presets in Lightroom and then adjusted contrast, brightness, saturation a bit. Once I adjusted those I lost what preset I used :( So I can't remember the name of the presets. Wonder if I can figure that out?? Anyways, after that I cropped the photos.