Igor, I think you mean to say that the highlights are too high or they
are clipped. The word overblown is itself overblown in that you
cannot be more blown than 100% clipped, so the over- part is
redundant.
As to the highlights being too high, I don't agree (they are probably
close to the white point, maybe Zone 8) but it's a style thing.
I've seen a lot of fashion shots, and this is a typical example. This
might have been shot with a large beauty dish or a gridded softbox
without its front diffuser. That results in extra specularity and
contrast on the skin, giving both bright highlights and deeper shadow
along the edges of contours, limbs and such. (Which is then
Photoshopped much further ...)
Pick up a copy of Vogue or Elle sometime and flip through the ads.
You'll see this style a lot.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote:
Hi All!
Last night, on late night TV show, I saw this book cover photo:
http://goo.gl/2sSZuA
My first reaction was that the highlights in the photo are overblown.
This was especially apparent in how it looked on TV (and my TV is
reasonably good gamma-wise, and it is only ~5 y.o.).
It's bothering my eyes.
Does it look that way to you?
And if yes, - why, do you think, they did it this way?
Igor
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