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Hmmm, not sure on this one???

I know the subject is gorgeous and all but still not sure???

I tried for a different kind of look. Heavy cropping and glamour style

Oh and BTW my wife took this one



What do you think?

W00DY

Woody I love the pic - towards surrealism

Chris

Woody... I really like this one... nice use of forground and background lighting. Please tell... what parameters did you use... flash settings, post processing etc

Mj wrote:Woody... I really like this one... nice use of forground and background lighting. Please tell... what parameters did you use... flash settings, post processing etc

My wife actually took this one and it was with the 24 - 120 VR lens, On Board Flash and ISO 1600 (she doesn't know how to change it and it was still set to 1600)

She liked it though so I took it into Photoshop and applied the Ambience setting in Virtual Photographer (I love this plug in). I then faded the effect a little (can't remeber by how much).

So I really can't claim much for this one

W00DY

I really like it too. The eyes are really clear.

Great, thanks for the info... really helps to understand what i might do for a similar shot... haven't played much with Virtual Photographer yet but seem to remember thinking it might have some potential for portraits and the like.

Michael.

Can't say I've ever used Virtual Photographer but you can achieve the same look with 3 simple steps in Photoshop...

1) Duplicate Layer
2) Gaussian Blur (experiment with amount)
3) Reduce the top Layer's opacity to achieve the desired effect

A fun thing to do is experiment with the top blurred layer; adjust the Levels/Curves, Brightness etc and see what effect it has on the image. This is also a nice way of making high-key photo's.

Liam =]

That's a nice photo, and beetleboy thanks for the tip! I was trying to do this yesterday with a portrait of my wife and couldn't get it, I did it again and it looks great!

don't know why you're not sure woody. This is great shot.

Croping works perfectly in my opinion.

And for iso 1600 you've done a great job on the noise

G'day,
That's a great shot of a beautiful subject.... The lighting really works for me... Made me smile as soon as I saw it

Congrats to your boss for taking such a great shot... I didn't notice any noise so good job on the noise reduction (assuming you did noise reduction?)...

Cheers,
Mudder

Thanks for all the replies...

The more I look at it the more I like it, I am even going to get it printed I think.

Not much done on it at all other then the Virtual Photographer plugin.

Cheers,

W00DY