I like the crop much better. The original looks like one of my pet peeves (I could be wrong on this one) - that is, AF tends to cause people to compose poorly (myself included). Too often it is choose the focus of the subject and then center that and focus and then not really recompose. Fred, if you didn't do that, I apologize. But the original does have her eyes in the center of the picture.
Cleaning up the skin looks over done to me. The color shifts too much. Also the catchlights don't look real - they are too big and soft, like they were photoshopped in. So for me, overall it is too much. But the crop is much improved. That being said, it is entirely possible that she doesn't think it is over done and may be very happy with it. My experience with all the portrait work I do is that women tolerate a much greater degree of manipulation than me. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, September 18, 2005, 5:01:57 PM, you wrote: FW> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/44492373/ FW> A portrait of my co-worker Leah. FW> I tweaked the image in Photoshop - cropped in closer, smoothed out FW> her skin, brightened her teeth, added catchlights to her eyes, FW> lightened the skin tones and blurred the background. FW> I like the finished image, but did I overdo things ? FW> For comparison the original image (converted from RAW) FW> is here FW> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/44492376/ FW> Shot with *istDS and F 70-210mm. FW> Comments ??? FW> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FW> Fred Widall, FW> Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FW> URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall FW> Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall FW> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
