My son is 9 months old. He's very wobbly as he leans against things, but that's all he wants to do these days. I shot what I thought was a great portrait the other day, only to discover - once I'd put the ugly plastic fence back in our living room and pulled all the toys back out - that it was OOF (out-of-focus). I was shooting with the FA 43/1.9 at f/1.9, which I know means a very thin depth-of-field, but I got lots of other shots during that session that were in great focus, but some other component was missing (his eyes were half-closed, there was no connection with the camera, etc, etc). So I decided to try to salvage this one in Lightroom.
I played with the white balance to make it a lot bluer, then tweaked each slider in the "camera calibration" part at the bottom to exaggerate the relationships between different colors. I adjusted, well, just about everything. I think that the outcome looks more like a dated film shot, and somehow the not sharp focus is forgivable.
What do you guys think? Worth the effort? Would you have gone a different way with it? I had a black-and-white version that I liked quite a bit as well.
Original:
Post-Processed Shot: