I think you do a decent job on the retouching. I would reduce the saturation a wee bit and push the middle of the RGB curve up a bit to brighten midrange tones without losing contrast. But the real problem here is that her eye is half closed. Is this a crop? I don't like the one-eyed framing. On Mar 16, 2007, at 11:31 PM, David Savage wrote:
> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
