about the photography i think everything is in place and ok, lighting is good, compositions is ok
but the retouch... hmmm, too much i guess, plastic looking as some people may call.
I'm sure you retouched everything that needed to be cleaned up, but I'm not sure if your workflow is correct or not, if you used plugins to retouch the skin i suggest you stop using it right away because most plugins are nothing helpful but destroying the natural look of the skin or any other texture you work on (maybe its fine for some wedding or low budget projects in Iran), on the other hand if you are doing the professional mainstream techniques like frequency separation or dodge and burn, it is over done on this particular image.
to give you more details about what i didn't like about this retouch is mostly the eyes, then the sharp skin texture which looks kinda fake, and finally there are a few dark and light areas around her nose which are visible when you sit back and take a look from distance.
anyway, the overall look of the photo is good, but when it come to details, these are what came through my mind, i hope you don't mind it.
thanks my dear and i never use of plugin's or action
i always use manual retouching and always use of high end retouching by frequency separation and dodge and burn
thanks for whats your idea about my work
I agree that this image seems to be a bit overcooked and oddly yellow when it doesn't need to be. Frequency Separation is an unfortunately popular technique that can actually cause the exact opposite of what it is "supposed" to do unless it's used very, very carefully.
The other thing that immediately jumped out at me (aside from her eyes looking up with too much white visible below the iris and being ever so slightly creepy) is that the eyebrows look patchy in color / shading and way too squared off. Maybe it was your makeup artist, but it might be a good idea to learn how to draw in more natural looking eyebrow hairs to correct this if you ever need to.
Is "nice look" the name of your company? I'm not sure I get the context of the wording on her hat. Hope this helps.
I hope Soheil won't get mad at me to answer your last question...
unfortunately in Iran photographers are used to put some big texts, logos & lots of other information on their images in order to make it look more fashion or like photos published in magazines and stuff which doesn't help at all. there are always some excuses like this is the name of my "collection", or its what this image is called.
I'm having hard time telling people not to do so, i didn't want to talk about that, but thanks for mention.
hello soheil
first of all thanks for sharing
about the photography i think everything is in place and ok, lighting is good, compositions is ok
but the retouch... hmmm, too much i guess, plastic looking as some people may call.
I'm sure you retouched everything that needed to be cleaned up, but I'm not sure if your workflow is correct or not, if you used plugins to retouch the skin i suggest you stop using it right away because most plugins are nothing helpful but destroying the natural look of the skin or any other texture you work on (maybe its fine for some wedding or low budget projects in Iran), on the other hand if you are doing the professional mainstream techniques like frequency separation or dodge and burn, it is over done on this particular image.
to give you more details about what i didn't like about this retouch is mostly the eyes, then the sharp skin texture which looks kinda fake, and finally there are a few dark and light areas around her nose which are visible when you sit back and take a look from distance.
anyway, the overall look of the photo is good, but when it come to details, these are what came through my mind, i hope you don't mind it.
good luck
thanks my dear and i never use of plugin's or action
i always use manual retouching and always use of high end retouching by frequency separation and dodge and burn
thanks for whats your idea about my work
if you say so... ;)
movafagh bashi
I agree that this image seems to be a bit overcooked and oddly yellow when it doesn't need to be. Frequency Separation is an unfortunately popular technique that can actually cause the exact opposite of what it is "supposed" to do unless it's used very, very carefully.
The other thing that immediately jumped out at me (aside from her eyes looking up with too much white visible below the iris and being ever so slightly creepy) is that the eyebrows look patchy in color / shading and way too squared off. Maybe it was your makeup artist, but it might be a good idea to learn how to draw in more natural looking eyebrow hairs to correct this if you ever need to.
Is "nice look" the name of your company? I'm not sure I get the context of the wording on her hat. Hope this helps.
I hope Soheil won't get mad at me to answer your last question...
unfortunately in Iran photographers are used to put some big texts, logos & lots of other information on their images in order to make it look more fashion or like photos published in magazines and stuff which doesn't help at all. there are always some excuses like this is the name of my "collection", or its what this image is called.
I'm having hard time telling people not to do so, i didn't want to talk about that, but thanks for mention.