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Gf was all dolled up to go to Robbie Williams concert the other night so took the opportunity to capture her in her war paint. She was running late (as usual ) so only had a couple of minutes to rip off a few shots. Only had the 18-55 with me but it doesn't do too bad a job.

Pp'd mainly to get rid of poor background and to give them a bit more snap.

C & C welcome as always.



Glammed up a bit.




I'll take this opportunity to wish all the forum members a very happy xmas and a prosperous 2007.
Cheers John

John - I think #1 is the winner here. Maybe just back off a tad on the flash? Nice work though. What did she think of them? I wonder what Robbie thought??

Nice work! I tend to agree with Geoff....dial in a touch of minus for the flash. Don't over-sharpen. Try a touch of soft diffusion....make a copy in Photoshop (CONTROL + J) GO TO filters/other/highpass....dial in enough to make the image look metallic. Go to image adjustments and INVERT the copy....go to layers and change the blending mode to OVERLAY or SOFT LIGHT. Change opacity to suit. This gives skin tones a nice glow if you did it right. Sometimes just a touch will make all the difference.

Thanks for your suggestions, Geoff & Matt.

I've reworked #1 along those lines, backed off the exposure 1/3 stop and played with the highpass filter (never played with that one before) and this is the result which I like a lot.



She's very happy with them Geoff. Seems I can do no wrong sometimes , but I know better .