Another self-portrait

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Another Self portrait from the realms of me. Taken using the same DIY sofbox arangement as before. You'll notice the right should area is a bt odd looking. This is because I did a quick job to remove a radiator that was there. I'll tart it up a bit later.

big Picture Link (I think it looks better in the bigger size)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/236/3264888690_1df83e804c_b.jpg
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Any C&C welcome. I was thinking maybe a tighter crop on it, but I'm not to sure. ?Anyone want to chip in?
 
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At work just now so I can't remember exactly but, I got the lighting sorted by editing the raw file (I love the recovery slider. Not sure what it does, but man I love it).I didn't desaturate the image to much, in fact I upped the vibrance and saturation to get teh hair the way I wanted. Next thing was te PS PP. Duplicated the background and desaturated the image and used a mask to apply this to everywhere except the hair and the eye. Then I select the eye and used variations to get the right sort of green.
Finally, flatten image, unsharp mask over the whole thing at a fairly high level, and then using another mask I removed the sharpening from the hair. A little dodging on areas of reasonable shadow and th ejob was done :)
 
koomber said:
At work just now so I can't remember exactly but, I got the lighting sorted by editing the raw file (I love the recovery slider. Not sure what it does, but man I love it).I didn't desaturate the image to much, in fact I upped the vibrance and saturation to get teh hair the way I wanted. Next thing was te PS PP. Duplicated the background and desaturated the image and used a mask to apply this to everywhere except the hair and the eye. Then I select the eye and used variations to get the right sort of green.
Finally, flatten image, unsharp mask over the whole thing at a fairly high level, and then using another mask I removed the sharpening from the hair. A little dodging on areas of reasonable shadow and th ejob was done :)
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Thanks for that.

As I understand it, the recovery slider tries to pull back some detail in the blown or over exposed areas of the shot.
 
That's a cracking shot, great lighting and quirky. There are some reflections off the wallpaper to the right that you may want to consider toning down or cloning out. Excellent work.
 
That's a cracking shot, great lighting and quirky. There are some reflections off the wallpaper to the right that you may want to consider toning down or cloning out. Excellent work.
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Thats the actual wallpaper. IT frustrates me like you wouldn't believe. What you are seeing there is some gloss paint on the wall. Not like a spill or anything, the previous owner of the flat actually painted part of the wall in gloss. Crazy. Ah well, gives me encouragement to repaint I suppose.
 
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