Yesterday a couple brought their children over for some head shots.  I got carried away. This eight-year-old was darling.  The first thing I had to do was help her relax.  I had her stand up and shake her arms as we laughed about it.  It did help!  She was fun to pose and I could see her start to relax and get into the modeling mode.  I probably spent 45 minutes or so working with her as her baby sister roamed around the set well below the view of my 21 mega-pixel camera. She was wearing blue which matched her eyes.  In a couple of the images I worked on for this blog I even tinted the backdrop to a blue with worked well I think.  This Utah photographer loves expressing the creativity that Photoshop allows.  Of coarse the object is to get the image in then camera.  There is nothing worse than taking hours attempting to fix images.  In this case the images were perfectly exposed and color corrected.  Children generally have unblemished skin so there is little retouching to do.  So all I had to do was concentrate on the creativity.  That meant accentuating eyes and toning the backdrop along a couple of my secret treatments to bring in my artistic style.  I think the end result was some very telling portraits of this beautiful young child.  In my next blog I’ll display some images of her little sister.