With respect to the hair, I think it is entirely due to the peak parting catching the left side lighting. Doesn't bother me at all.
Jack --- On Fri, 12/11/09, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William Robb <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Another Overprocessed Portrait > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 7:15 AM > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Roberts" > Subject: Re: PESO: Another Overprocessed Portrait > > > > William Robb wrote: > > > >>Hi, this is Sammie again. > >> > >>http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/newer_still/4233.html > >> > >>I'm trying a few post processing techniques out. > >> > >>Techie stuf: > >>K7, 70mm LTD. ISO 100 f/8. > >>Illumination from one head in a beauty dish. > > > > Really, really good. I'd have expected a much more > complex lighting > > setup than you indicate here. Do the post-processing > techniques > > include the layer mask you were enthusing about a > couple of days ago? > > :) > > Oh boy, lets see if I can remember. > I copied the background to a new layer and fixed as many of > the zits and > skin flaws as I could in 20 minutes, then copied that layer > twice. I ran two > different Portraiture filters, one on each layer and then > adjusted the > opacity of each. I layer masked each layer and did some > airbrushing on them > (eyes and lips), and then merged them. > Put a layer mask on that and did some more airbrushing > (pretty much > everything but skin) and then adjusted the levels on the > background to make > they eyes sparkle a bit. > Another layer was then hit with Gaussian blur and then the > opacity brought > down to about 30%, another layer mask and more > airbrushing. > Flattened that and then a B&W layer with adjustments > and a colour cast > added. > At least that hits the high points. > I'll perhaps try to fix the hair, but I have a feeling that > was just fall > off from the single light causing it. > > Thanks for looking and commenting to Dave and Dario as > well. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
