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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:02 am

Had a quick shoot today with my wife's friend. This is the first edited photo. Softened skin on this one. C&C are appreciated.

Thanks

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Postby Yi-P on Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:07 am

Looking good :D
Very nice creamy bokeh, which lens is it?

The hair is lacking a little bit of detail here I'd say, and her pose/face does not seem to be very comfortable for her in this one.
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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:04 am

Thanks for your comments, Yi-P.

This was taken with 50 f1.4.

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Postby Oscar on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:04 am

Wow!! Stunner! Well done Alex.

Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby wendellt on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:14 am

Nice DOF
but regarding the model the smile seems a little pensive
you need to make her more comfortable
70% of this is establishing rapport with the model
then shooting away

the quarter profile is good and i see the cartchlight in the eyes

for improvement i would tone down the orange skin just a tad and consider other locations for portraiture work one with lots of complimentary coours
I dont think yellow/orange(skin) and a bright green background(park) is complimentary

keep it up, practice makes near purrrfect
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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:22 am

Thanks for the comments Oscar and Wendell.

Wendell - Yes, the skin looks a bit too orange when view in IE. When I view the image in PS CS2 and NC the colours look much better. I calibrated monitor to suit the printer at the shop where I normally print.

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Postby wendellt on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:25 am

hi alex
o.k to fix that calibration issue in photoshop

select 'edit' and choose 'convert to profile'
select 'srgb xxxxxx 2.1'

then save for the web

you probably have a profile on that image
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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:41 am

Thanks Wendell. Didn't really fix it. Not sure what I set wrong. Looks totally different in photoshop compared to IE.

Any ideas anyone?

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Postby wendellt on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:44 am

Alex wrote:Thanks Wendell. Didn't really fix it. Not sure what I set wrong. Looks totally different in photoshop compared to IE.

Any ideas anyone?

Alex


ie may have a colour profile set

I know on my mac at work safari has the apple inbuilt gamma 1.1 on it
you can turn the option off

you need to determine first what your global colour profiles are, the ones set by windows

they need to be in sync with your photoshop coloursync workflow
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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:56 am

wendellt wrote:
Alex wrote:Thanks Wendell. Didn't really fix it. Not sure what I set wrong. Looks totally different in photoshop compared to IE.

Any ideas anyone?

Alex


ie may have a colour profile set

I know on my mac at work safari has the apple inbuilt gamma 1.1 on it
you can turn the option off

you need to determine first what your global colour profiles are, the ones set by windows

they need to be in sync with your photoshop coloursync workflow


Interestingly, the photo looks fine in IE on two other computers at my place. Not exactly as I see it in PS but close. I think it's to do with the fact that IE simply ignores any profile the image has assigned.

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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:12 am

Further to this.. when I do soft proof view in PS the colours are ok if I choose "Windows RGB" but when I go to "Monitor RGB" the colours are very different (what I see in IE on my monitor).

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