As an exercise in "Photo Painting" it's very good. But it's turned a natural beauty into plastic caricature.
I'm not surprised she liked it. The technique is popular for a reason :-) Dave BTW Leah has a beautiful smile. On 9/19/05, Fred Widall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/44492373/ > > A portrait of my co-worker Leah. > > I tweaked the image in Photoshop - cropped in closer, smoothed out > her skin, brightened her teeth, added catchlights to her eyes, > lightened the skin tones and blurred the background. > > I like the finished image, but did I overdo things ? > > For comparison the original image (converted from RAW) > is here > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/44492376/ > > Shot with *istDS and F 70-210mm. > > Comments ??? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fred Widall, > Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall > Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Dave
