Great job with both the original image and retouching. Thanks for sharing details.
Cheers, Leon >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:52 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: PESO: A portrait revisited > >Thanks for all the nice comments. Sorry I'm late responding, >but I've been busy trying to get some other work processed and >printed. Shel asked what was done in converting and retouching >the original. As I said, I had the help of a professional >retoucher, whose time is normally billed at $300/hour. We >started by doing a straight grayscale conversion. She says she >has experimented extensively with all of the recipes and >considers them mainly bullshit. After the conversion, we >created an adjutment layer and cranked away on the levels to >achieve the tonality and contrast we wanted. Every little >adustment was a new layer. I believe there are 14 in all on >the final PSD. We masked the man and made a halo around his >headin the background, then flipped the right side of the >background over to the left to make it symmetrical. The eyes >on the original included reflections of the street. >Interesting, but bizarre. So we painted new eyeballs. We also >painted his facial wrinkles to make t! > hem more prominent. We added a vignette, then brought down >the most extreme highlights with the shadow/highlight tool and >the burn tool. And that's about it. The PSD file is about 380 >megs. The tiff is 60 megs. I printed it for my portfolio last >night. Digital BW is a good thing. >Paul > > >> Hi! >> >> > Some of you may recall a portrait I posted last year. It's >a shot of >> > an older fellow who shines shoes outside a clothing store in >> > Birmingham, Michigan. I've revisited it as a high contrast BW with >> > some background cleanup and other mods, including removing >> > reflections from the eyes. I had some help from a professional >> > retoucher who has been working with me on another project. >The new version is here: >> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3451662 >> > >> > The original is here: >> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2512646 >> >> Game, set, and match!!! >> >> You win, Paul, you surely do... >> >> But then again you had some pro help... <wink> >> >> Boris >> > >
