No wonder she did not like that portrait. Your chirurgical retouching operation went plastic phantastic :-( greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Savage Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:32 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Retoucing Comments G'day All, A couple of weeks ago we had a building wide fire drill at work. There was a photographer there from the council or local paper taking snaps, and all my work mates egged me on to take his picture, which I did (BTW, He was shooting with a silver 350D with what looked like a 70-200 f2.8, ugly looking combination). While I was goofing around I took a picture of our office manager. I didn't use the VF, it was a point-the-camera-in-her-general-direction-and-fire kind of thing. Surprisingly it turned out sharp and, IMHO, quite well framed. Unsurprisingly it's not at all flattering (there is a reason why I don't post my portraits/candids :-). I sent her the original and she didn't like it.. So I've been having a go at some of that heavy handed post processing stuff (~130kb): <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K10D/_IGP1300_4_2.jpg> K10D, FA 50mm f1.4, f4.5 @ 1/800 +0.3EV, ISO 400 ...here's a side by side before-after comparison (~100kb): <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K10D/_IGP1300_before-after.jpg> I realise it looks fake, but short of a make-up artist & re shooting in a studio there's not much else I can do. What do you reckon? Has it improved a mediocre shot, or just blurred and over saturated it? :-) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
