{"id":8933,"date":"2005-05-05T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/05\/sleeping-beauty\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T17:13:22","slug":"sleeping-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/05\/sleeping-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sleeping beauty<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the things Maxim got from me is his ability to sleep with semiopen eyes. Sometimes they are wide open, sometimes they are open just a tiny bit. Can you see a light reflection in his eye on this picture? Well, that’s a tiny bit open eye…<\/p>\n

On the photography side, I’ve postprocessed this image a bit. Original came out OK, but looked somewhat boring and casual. Firstly, I played with layers and color balance to get rid of the yellow tungsten cast as much as possible. I am still practicing my skills in this area. Than, I decided to try something that I wanted to try for some time now – selective blur. I’ve selected Maxim’s face, feathered the selection by 300 pixels, inverted the selection, and blurred by 30 pixels both vertically and horizontally the rest of the picture. The result looked much better than the original, but I thought that since I went this far, I should also add the glamour glow. I copied the layer, blurred the top one by 15 pixels in both directions, changed the opacity mode to overlay, and played a bit with the scroller there until I liked what I saw. Than I merged layers, flattened image, saved it, uploaded and published, and here is the result.<\/p>\n

Album location: \/photos\/2005\/2005-05-05_POTD<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

One of the things Maxim got from me is his ability to sleep with semiopen eyes. Sometimes they are wide open, sometimes they are open just a tiny bit. Can you see a light reflection in his eye on this picture? 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