My nephew Damion looked up from playing with his trains long enough to wave good-bye while wearing his favorite bear hat. It’s not a terribly sharp photo as the light was very low in the room, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. Catching him in this moment, with the hat, expression and wave makes up for the softness of the photo. Anyone who photographs young kids knows that they run at about 100 miles an hour and sometimes you just can’t get them to stand or sit still long enough to get a sharp photo.
Does this mean that you should do away with your soft photos? Not if they record a moment that brings you emotion and that you’ll be able to look back on and fondly remember.
Today I used the built in camera app to shoot the photo and then processed it through Snapseed. I then brought it into Photoshop CS6 and brought down the saturation in the photo and applied the clarity filter in Topaz Adjust.