This is as close as Sebastian will probably get to looking like the "Gerber Baby"! At four months he's not very chubby or even classicaly "baby cute"; he is, however, full of personality and has a winning smile, and shining eyes that know how to find the camera!
Even with all of that I still have to work a little to get a good shot. I talk to him and try to get him to laugh (he usually is entranced by the camera and ignores me). After I weed through the photos, and it does help to have a camera that can take rapid fire frames, I pick a few that I fool around with in the basic processing available in the free program Picasa. I can't wait until I can get a new laptop and *real* photo processing programs because they are amazing!
As you can see from the first picture below the photo out of the camera is a little dark. So I upped the highlights and then gave it a little white "vignette" border to put the focus on his face. I then tried the new "infared" action and it suddenly made him look like a vintage photograph from the 1940's! I'd tried the black and white but it left his face too flat. This one emphasized his expression.
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