hey everyone!
My first post in this group! I have took the beautiful orian to try new thing, i have usually don't shot in mid day only with natural light so i took her and try some new thing on location and after that on photoshop(usually i edit in LR) but i want to try new thing and challenge myself to use only PS)
what do you think?
Another good jo, well done.
The combined effect of her head being at an angle and being cropped looks so wrong. She also looks 1/2 stop over exposed, especially obvious by her hands and coat sleve. However, her face, make-up and your use of light and Photoshop are so beautiful you get away with the deficiencies, well almost.
Thank you Ian! well noted! :)
I don't mind her being at an angle, but the hands definitely needs some more toning (burn, baby burn ;))
And I really don't like when the top of the head are chopped off, unless it's a close up head shot!
But apart from this it's a great image and a lovely blurred background that works here even though it would have been too busy for most other shots!
thank you Christian!
about the hand, well i noticed to, but i really need more practice because i have tried but it didn't go very well so i leave it as is. for the cropping , i don't know why but before cropping some thing didn't work for me... so i cropped it... i think after that she is just pop out bit more....
this is before cropping:
I see what you mean with the balance of the image in the uncropped version, perhaps cropping just above her hair where there is sky and get the roof out of the picture would help.
maybe! i'll try it!
tnx for the comment Christian!
The hands are too pale because the whole exposure is too pale, as I pointed out above. This could be easliy corrected and then the face would also be more natural. Not having access to the original RAW file I can't do a superb job of grading this image but as a guide I attach my version. I have also tried a different crop, which I don't think helps too much but some may prefer to the original cropping.
Another issue is her very beautiful eyes, which are too perfectly "clean", the whites especially are over cooked. In other words they look Photoshopped because they are so faultless and too white.
It pays to think of digital like we used to think of slide film, expose for the highlights. Meaning, set the exposure so the highlights are perfectly reproduced. Then, either the image will all be perfectly exposed or lighting will be needed to fill in the shaddows or the file processed to darken the shaddows. With negatives it was largely the opposite philosophy exposing for the level of required shaddow detail. Then either precessing the negative or careful printing or using corrective lighting would reproduce the highlights as required. But digital is a positive process so it has to be treated like transaprency film stock's exposure technique.
I agree the hands need more toning. They stand out more then her face because of how much her face falls into shadow.
thank you Travis! well noted! :)
Fantastic
WOW! Thank you Lee!! :)