Dress-Up

Sorry it's been so long between posts. I haven't had any new shots to work on, and just life has picked me up and swept me off like so much fast water. Last night we were just goofing around as a family and I had to pull my camera out and take some shots. Logan is obsessed with Cinderella, and disney in general. He has this Cinderella doll that has very interesting hair. Last night started with me seeing if I could get Kristie's hair to sit like her's. Once we got it kind of close, we started talking dressup. She was going to go throw on a dark dress, but recently I had a conversation with a friend at work about wedding dresses, and I remembered that Kristie's was still sitting in a suitcase in our basement. So I dared her to try it on. Hilarity ensued. Logan was in Awe of her in that dress, which mostly still fit, as impressive as that is. Immediately out came my camera, since Krisie on camera is an elusive thing to begin with, but Kristie all dolled up, literally, is even rarer. And I even got approval to post a few of the shots, so here they are. The First one I didn't do a lot to. I used the channel mixer to convert the image to black and white and then added a curves layer to tone the image slightly. The dress also required a bit of darkening as I was forced to use a flash and the dress was completely washed out. In the second image I did a lot of toning of individual layers using masks and played around with curves quite a bit. I'm very happy with both shots, and I hope you enjoy the rare treat of Kristie on your screens!

Dan