On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> http://goo.gl/hrPwz >>> >>> From left to right: >>> - "Once upon a time in the west" >> >> Very nice, the shadows add mystery. I'm not sure what the thing that looks >> like a goldfish cookie on a leather thong is, I'd use my adjustment brush >> and "burn it to black" dropping the exposure and brightness. I'd also like >> to see it cropped in a lot tighter on her. as much as you can off the left, >> and bottom. For that matter, I might even crop off a bit of the hat in the >> upper right. > > Yeah, I could see a square crop for this that would do pretty-much > what you're suggesting. > > Were I to reshoot this though, I'd include a barely illuminated > backdrop/background to give her outline definition. Mystery is nice, > but I'm afraid it tends toward gloom territory here.
You could try some sort of rim lighting to bring out the outline and leave the background black. > > >>> - "Madame X" >> >> Madme X is interesting. It almost looks overprocessed, but that ends up >> also almost making it look like a 1940's glamour shot. If it looked any more >> 40's I'd be wondering where the cigarette with curling smoke was. I like >> the way that it lookes like you played with varying levels of saturation too. > > I forgot to warn folks that this one is intentionally *way* > overprocessed. I used Portraiture settings that amount to cranking all > the smoothing sliders to 11. And I desaturated it a fair amount too. I > was aiming for a Lillian Bassman look (1950's fashion shooter) and I > think I got a fair rendition. > > No smoking at my place, but I might be able to 'shop something in. :-) I wasn't suggesting one, that just sort of seemed to be the canonical prop in photos of that era. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
