Little Feet

Little feet can often times be just that... Little. This photo was from the baby shoot I did last Friday night and I had an EF 50 f/1.4 lens on the 5D Mk II. Not exactly a macro lens and I did not have flash for this image so I quickly opened up the aperture to f/1.8 to get more light. Yes I could have pushed the ISO up to3200 or something but it was just easier to dial in the stop with my thumb.

Anyhow the result is a pair of little feet with a very shallow depth of field. So what to do? I had two options, dump it or try and salvage it. Now that I am an avid Lightroom user, I try to get everything done in LR before I have to go to Photoshop. So here is what I came up with.

With a little creative cropping and the use of a WOW-Glow preset, I have a nice image that a mom may want to put up in the nursery. All is not lost when the image does not turn out the way you had intended it too. Sometimes when the time factor is there (like when shooting babies) you get what you get some times. As long as there is a focusable area of the image, I believe it can be salvaged.

Fix it in Photoshop is a poplar term, Maybe I'll take the Salvage it in Lightroom saying!

Cya... Doug