Tried Out a headshot
What you think about it people. i love contributions. thanks
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Dean Wilson
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5 Comments
First impression, it looks good. Howevver, after a couple of seconds there are things I would change.
1, The eys are over edited, the whites are like best quality paint and the reflections are too stong.
2, The hair might look even better with a little more detail, on the right side of the image at least.
3, The skin appears over "air-brushed"
4, The earring is a distraction.
Still, you have photographed a lovely girl and she looks good. So, in no way a disaster, just not quite my flavour of photography.
I noticed that too. Thanks for your contribution
I think this is really close to being a very solid image. I agree that the skin smoothing is a little too much for a headshot. The main thing though is the lack of detail outside of her face. You could go one of two ways to fix this, either add a pair of subtle kicker lights, one on each side, or light the background, so that the shape of her hair is silhouetted. Even a dark grey background would give some separation with her black hair.
Bing Putney yeah you right. The kicker could have added more details to the hair. I will check that next time am doing something similar. Thanks man. I always look put for your comments.
Yes I agree with the over smoothing of the skin, I too suffer from this problem, photography at times is a learning process of editing yourself, I know for me it is. Other than that I really like it. I would like to see just a hint of rim lighting to outline the crown of the head.