Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-18 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David Savage Subject: Re: Retoucing Comments I should be OK as I'll have some adult supervision :-) Do you really think so? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-18 Thread David Savage
On 3/18/07, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: David Savage Subject: Re: Retoucing Comments I should be OK as I'll have some adult supervision :-) Do you really think so? Let me get back to you with my answer to that on June 1st. :-) Cheers

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
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

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread David Savage
G'day Paul, Yeah, I did get a bit carried away with the saturation, I just tried the curves adjustment and it does look much better. It's a full frame, unframed shot.. I tried opening the eye with the Bloat tool in the liquify filter, and it kinda worked, but I didn't do it in this version.

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/16/2007 8:33:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread David Savage
On 3/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/16/2007 8:33:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/K10D/_IGP1300_before-after.jpg === She'll probably like it blurred. But if you are going to

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread ann sanfedele
Paul Stenquist wrote: 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

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread David Savage
On 3/18/07, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I bet she likes the second a bit better but the severe crop would be as likely a reason... It does look fake after retouching - it is a bitch to do that stuff... but you also changed her coloration. (noticed the lipstick changed color

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread ann sanfedele
David Savage wrote: On 3/18/07, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I bet she likes the second a bit better but the severe crop would be as likely a reason... It does look fake after retouching - it is a bitch to do that stuff... but you also changed her coloration. (noticed the

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-17 Thread David Savage
On 3/18/07, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly preferred your un smudged face Me too. looking forward to meeting you at GFM if you can figure out how to get there - hehe Again, me too. I should be OK as I'll have some adult supervision :-) Cheers, Dave -- PDML

Retoucing Comments

2007-03-16 Thread David Savage
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,

RE: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-16 Thread Markus Maurer
Subject: Retoucing Comments 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

Re: Retoucing Comments

2007-03-16 Thread David Savage
It's the original she doesn't like ;-). I haven't shown her the retouched version yet. Cheers, Dave On 3/17/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No wonder she did not like that portrait. Your chirurgical retouching operation went plastic phantastic :-( greetings Markus -- PDML