Alexa

Alexa is the daughter of a friend. She is the quintessential reluctant model. Point the camera at her and she’ll back away. Then suddenly, she doesn’t.

It had been sitting on my hard drive since I shot it about five years ago at a Little League game. I stumbled upon the raw file last hight and thought it had potential.

I brought it into Photoshop and used three or four curve adjustment layers. I used onOne’s FocalPoint to simulate a narrow depth of field, then cropped the image.

Below is the original image, for comparison.