Good to Wow: Yellow Edition, Edited

I didn't do a whole lot to my pictures this week. Mainly just RAW adjustments to exposure and white balance. I shot all of my photos in Hershey on Auto mode because I was afraid I would miss something fiddling with settings. My Auto WB tends to be a little on the cool side, and the exposure a little low. So I had to warm up each photo as well as increase the exposure. That said, here we go:

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After RAW exposure and white balance adjustment, cropped and then brightened her eyes.

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Basic RAW adjustments, slight crop to make it symmetrical, and high filter pass set to overlay blend mode.

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I had two shots of the kids at the candy machine:

I like the shot on the right best because, even though it has the pesky shadow cast by the store shelf (had I noticed it, I could have changed my position!), a crop can get rid of it easier than on the photo on the left. The problem with the right photo, however, is that it is sans candy pail. So I took a shot I had of just the empty candy bucket, selected the bucket, and copied it into the better picture.

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Then the crop and basic RAW adjustments.

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First I cropped it. Then RAW adjustment followed by high pass filter set to soft light blending mode at 30% opacity. I thought about trying to clone out legs in background, but I really don't have the time, plus those legs belong to my other daughter as opposed to a stranger, so I'm perfectly fine with them remaining there.

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Just did a RAW adjustment and slight crop.