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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Impossible to close open eyes? It is, according to my professional photographer 🤨 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I've had a newborn photosession and the baby did not want to miss a thing! So unfortunately the eyes are open on almost all photos and it's not the vibe we were going for.

I prepurchased a session pack including retouching and deep photoshopping, and asked the photographer to edit babys eyes closed.

But photographer refuses and says it's not possible. I am happy with the other edits made, but disappointed with the eyes not being closed.

    Do I have to accept the refusal or do you have some ideas on a tool that eases the proces?

I tried googling myself but I haven't used Photoshop since a random media class in middle school so Idk if it really is that complicated or not. A lot of new tools and AI has been invented since then.

     Follow up question:

If I just accept the photos as they are, can you recommend an AI program to help me achieve what I'm going for without losing too much of the resolution?

I wanted to print some of the portraits so the quality needs to be preserved as much as possible.

Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This feels like such an insane request.

This is your newborn. You expect a newborn to do what you want it to?

The vibe is off??

This is baby's first photo session. What kind of demands are you going to have for school pictures? For team photos if they're in sports, or senior portraits?

Leave the image alone. If you use AI or photoshop to close the eyes, that's no longer an image of your child. That's a fake, a picture of a time and event that never actually happened. A fiction. You would prefer to remember a fiction than your actual child.

As a photographer I would refuse to engage in this line of request, flat out. Here's the photos of what authentically happened, in real life, eyes open. I'd turn over the photos and wash my hands of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think you're definitely reading too much into this.