I did my normal retouching on this portrait and then went for a really high contrast black and white edit with texture. Which do you prefer and why?
I did my normal retouching on this portrait and then went for a really high contrast black and white edit with texture. Which do you prefer and why?
These are both good, but I feel that something is missing on her eyes.. I cant say if it's sharpness, light or the pic is out of focus. I used to love more black and white over colored portraits, this time I go with the color one, mainly because white are missing on the second, grey is everywhere (at least, this is what I see, maybe is the screen that I'm using..)
Another issue, imho, is the saturation of the hat: it looks fake to me..
Well you don't find any pure white in the image because there are not any blown out highlights.
I prefer the monochrome version as the red dominates her in the colour version and is at odds with the winter colour spectrum, I supose. But mainly it is too visually strong and dominates the image, overwhelming the girl's presence, which is a shame. I may be wrong but I suspect red does not suit her, too. Or at the very least that shade of red.
I guess whether a color suits a person is personal opinion since this is her favorite hat from what she told me. Perhaps a slight desat may help but I did like the way it complimented her natural eye color. I personally like the black and white better as well since the focus goes straight to her face a little nicer.
I agree with matteo that the hat looks synthetic to me, meaning the colour looks to have been processed, in PS perhaps, but perhaps not entirely successfully. Too much saturation perhaps.
Anyway, I do like the monochrome version. Nice job.
i really like both of these. her eyes really caught me in this. the bottom is really nice im a big fan of B&W so im partial to the 2nd one. however the top photo is nice as well. very well done
Thanks. She does have some stunning eyes.
hi, i prefer the colored version. The red and blue works really well together.
for my taste i would reframe the picture to put here more into the center (cut off little bit of the right side) and add a catch light.
overall, a very good portrait
cheers mike