I agree with Frank that the jukebox is competing too successfully with your subject.
The Lightroom adjustment brush can be used very nicely to alter the exposure of stuff, but I would caution you about something that I suspect exists here: blown out areas. Blown out areas are where the pixels have been clipped to full-white by the sensor (because they were too bright to be represented at that exposure setting). If you attempt to reduce the exposure of a blown out area, it will simply turn into an ugly featureless grey area, like a grey stain on the image. Luckily you are converting to B&W so the result won't look as bad as it does in colour, but it may still look rather bogus, lacking grain for instance. In that case to do a good job you'd need to pull your image into Photoshop and use the healing or clone brush over the object to give it some texture and body. Then it could be darkened and still look real. On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a great photo! > > Like the way the jukebox in the background mirrors his head position, but I > might burn it just a little bit. > > None the less this is an amazing portrait. > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Walt <[email protected]> > Sent: April 24, 2013 4/24/13 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO: Glenn > > Here's another one of my workplace shots, this one of a daily customer. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/ > <http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/> > K-5, FA 50/1.4, ISO 6400, 1/60 > > Glenn was as much a preening dandy as you could imagine just a few years > ago. Since then, his longtime live-in girlfriend left him and he's > thrown in the towel over the past couple of years. I thought this shot > captured the grimness of his descent. > > Comments and suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- Walt > > P/S: The K-5 is still impressing the hell out of me in low light. > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
