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Postby georgie on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:13 am

Recent photo of my girl, trying different photoshop stuff. Let me know what you think.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/miskeljin/August07/photo#5100197128570267970"><img src="http://lh5.google.com.au/miskeljin/RseKRDTl6UI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/-gz6yz7GmIk/s800/August%2007-81.jpg" /></a>

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/miskeljin/August07/photo#5100204180906568034"><img src="http://lh3.google.com.au/miskeljin/RseQrjTl6WI/AAAAAAAABAg/7OjAYtX9eG0/s800/August%2007-80.jpg" /></a>

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/miskeljin/August07/photo#5100204554568722802"><img src="http://lh6.google.com.au/miskeljin/RseRBTTl6XI/AAAAAAAABAs/FnbAnDcTDII/s800/August%2007-84.jpg" /></a>
Last edited by georgie on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:54 am, edited 4 times in total.
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Postby Geoff on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:47 am

Beautiful captures but on my screen they look just a little over exposed. Her face looks washed out. The 2nd shot I'd like to see her eyes a bit sharper too.
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Postby georgie on Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:00 pm

Initially I liked the washed out look but after a while it was just obvious that it was overexposed

Here is ver 2.0 of the first image

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com.au/miskeljin/August07/photo#5100209738594249090"><img src="http://lh5.google.com.au/miskeljin/RseVvDTl6YI/AAAAAAAABCg/cJKIufd8Nms/s800/August%2007-81%282%29.jpg" /></a>
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Postby Geoff on Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:03 pm

Much better! :)
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Postby Marvin on Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:40 pm

Beautiful! Great eye contact.
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Postby gstark on Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:16 pm

Georgie,

I'd like to see a bit less (still!) exposure ... maybe add to the saturation ... and also, warm up the wb a smidgeon. That's, of course, only for my tastes.

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Postby Alex on Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:25 pm

The last one is great! Beautiful model.

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Postby georgie on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:27 pm

Thanks for the suggestions - have played with WB and am probably slightly happier.
It's very rare for her to look at me when I take photos, she normally does the whole "CCCHHHEEESSSEEEE" thing or stares away
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Postby PiroStitch on Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:02 am

Great shots! :) One thing that you might want to do is apply an unsharp mask (USM) filter to the photos to increase the sharpness a tad to compensate for the loss of detail when converting and resizing a jpeg.
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Postby the foto fanatic on Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:26 am

The reworked #1 image is a beautiful child portrait. She has magnificent eyes, and looks like she might break more than a few hearts in years to come.

Well done. :)
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Postby ozimax on Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:33 am

Those eyes are amazing, well done.
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