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Again, for your critique my friend Anna in colour and mono as I couldn't decide which I like best.

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Ditto.. mono for me Maciej, both are lovely but the mono one has the edge.
 
b&w definitely, the purple is very strong in the colour one and is taking my eyes away from hers but the b&w is spot on. (y)
 
Black and white is the best version for me, but then I am a sucker for B&W anyway.
 
B&W, colour is too strong, what does it look like if you tone it down?

Matt
 
gman said:
b&w definitely, the purple is very strong in the colour one and is taking my eyes away from hers but the b&w is spot on. (y)
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My thoughts exactly.
 
lovely in b&w... but what about selective? :exit:
 
B&W for me - her eyes have far more impact in this one...
 
leftcurl said:
lovely in b&w... but what about selective? :exit:
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As in selective colouring aka 'colour popping' or selective adjustments i.e. selective saturation etc?

The first one's a big no no for me. I can try and adjust locally though.

Thank you all for your comments I'll play around with it a bit more see if it can be improved.
 
A fantastic portrait and both are great, but for me the mono wins it my a margin. I agree with the comments above, the Eyes in the mono version grab you, where as the bright colours distract a little from the eyes

(y)
 
I think the B&W is nicer if i had to pick one but id suggest trying to combine the two images
 
hmm black and white overall. Colour is great except for the colour of her top, I think it is just too strong and takes from her eye colour and makes her looked tired. I wonder can you change her top colour :LOL:
 
Button said:
hmm black and white overall. Colour is great except for the colour of her top, I think it is just too strong and takes from her eye colour and makes her looked tired. I wonder can you change her top colour :LOL:
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Ask and you shall receive :LOL:

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Please do not take this edit too seriously :LOL:
 
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Well since you did one yourself and you're okay with edits....

This is more of a butchery, however I think it'd look good black if it was a good job (not like mine!!)

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If you'd like me to remove it just say the word.
 
I think you and I both butchered the shot :) I don't mind your edit, rough as it may be, it ilustrates the point. This was however an impromptu shoot and I did not influence the choice of garment - someting I should have considered, really.

I think we can all declare the mono shot winner in this instance... Additional comments re: composition, editing etc, are still appreciated.
 
Have you considered using a warming effect and then adjust opacity to suit. and then desaturate it. It will give you are halfway stage which I tried on your image and looked it ok. If you like I can show it here to illustrate my point.
 
Thank you, I'm not saying this is better by the way, it isn't, it's different to the other 2 that's all. I'm just throwing another variable in to the mix. This one has been done using a brown tint but any colour of your choice could have been used.
The one thing I would say no matter which version you eventually settle for, it would seem that you were swimming in the shallow end and you've caused me a much more lingering look on the eyes than is normal for me. It makes you really look at it, nicely done.

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Thanks Ken,

Looks good, how did you go about this again?

Glad you like the image, I am a sucker for a shallow DOF and cannot resist the silky smoothnes (I'm sure this is the official term ;-) ) of my 85mm lens. It's a winner for portraits, but I noticed that i need to be cautious with the aperture as it's easy to move out of focus.
 
yanovitz said:
Thanks Ken,

Looks good, how did you go about this again?

Glad you like the image, I am a sucker for a shallow DOF and cannot resist the silky smoothnes (I'm sure this is the official term ;-) ) of my 85mm lens. It's a winner for portraits, but I noticed that i need to be cautious with the aperture as it's easy to move out of focus.
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Hi, I didn't save the original psd for what I did. So I have downloaded your image again and made similar adjustments, not quite identical but better in my opinion to the first one I did.
I kept the psd and uploaded that to my webspace.
Go to the following link and you'll be able to download the psd file with layer adjustments I used to achieve that look.

Click here for PSD File

I hope this helps..
 
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Hmmm... not bad, not bad at all sir. A simle yet effective processing. Thanks for the input!


The butchery continued:

How do you like this take on black and white?
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