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Hi Chris - lovely pic, but seems to have lost some of the saturation/colour balance. Do you have the original still?
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Hi Chris
Hope you don't mind, I had a little play with the image. I love high-key images, and think they really work well with kids. I see the tick checked on your profile so hope this is OK. Shout if you want it removed...
Hope you don't mind, I had a little play with the image. I love high-key images, and think they really work well with kids. I see the tick checked on your profile so hope this is OK. Shout if you want it removed...
yea the origonal edit gave her big brown eyes, but origonaly she has blue eyes. Pre-set edits usualy aint the best to use as there is never one certain way to edit a photo...
Seeing as she has blone hair and blue eyes i'd have made the image a lot more soft and subtle with colour than what the pre-set made of it..
Damned pre-set edits, there the devil i tell ya!
Seeing as she has blone hair and blue eyes i'd have made the image a lot more soft and subtle with colour than what the pre-set made of it..
Damned pre-set edits, there the devil i tell ya!
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Hi Chris
Hope you don't mind, I had a little play with the image. I love high-key images, and think they really work well with kids. I see the tick checked on your profile so hope this is OK. Shout if you want it removed...
Really good picture and love the way you have processed it theMusicMan - do you mind me asking what process you went through to get the background totally white? When I can't get this right in the camera I fiddle abut in photoshop with random things til the background looks seamlessly white, but wondered if you had a quick way!!
Thanks xx
Easiest way for me (most of the time) is to just airbrush the shadows away, with a low edge hardness it usualy works quite well. Unless you have to rub along un-even textures like hair/furr etc. Another good point to this technique is that it leave the origonal image completely un-touched, so you dont have to change the way the image looks just to get a seemless background.
Also experiment with a couple of layers of the same image? That way you can give individual sections of the image different levels, curves, hue, contrast etc. Works well if an image isnt perfectly light.
If you dont understand what i mean (cause i know i blabber a lot) just say the word and i'll get a bunch of screen dumps on here to show you what i mean and how it usualy works best...
Also experiment with a couple of layers of the same image? That way you can give individual sections of the image different levels, curves, hue, contrast etc. Works well if an image isnt perfectly light.
If you dont understand what i mean (cause i know i blabber a lot) just say the word and i'll get a bunch of screen dumps on here to show you what i mean and how it usualy works best...
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I think there are 2 problems with the as-shot that stand out to me
1) the background isn't evenly lit, which gives you more PP work to do painting it back to white
2) the lit bit also doesn't come low enough down the backdrop. Ideally, it should be totally white above her head and down to, or below, her knees
The most common reasons for above are - the rear lights aren't powerful enough, that they are positioned too high, and that the umbrella/softboxes aren't big enough. This is compounded by the obvious lack of space between subject & background in this shot (presumably you just don't have much space?)
If you can... move both the subject and rear lights towards you a bit, even a foot will make a difference in evening out the rear lighting. If still not right, reduce the key light's output by 1 f-stop compared to the rear (expose for the key of course) and you should see an improvement
The original exposure was probably 1/2 stop under, and although MM's PP is good as a recovery, the skin tones have suffered a bit - most noticeable in her foot
If you can get it right at the taking, PP is simply a wipe around the front with a soft-edged white brush which takes 10-20 seconds and maintains the skin colour more accurately as you don't change the exposure at all
The face-on posing doesn't normally work too well, but you can get away with it with kids - what's really nice in your shot is the clearly unforced smile & connection to the girl, showing you're relating well to your subject
Having said all that, it could just be you're after a highly processed look to the shot, in which case it worked pretty well... and now ignore all of the above
I hope those comments make sense & help a bit?
1) the background isn't evenly lit, which gives you more PP work to do painting it back to white
2) the lit bit also doesn't come low enough down the backdrop. Ideally, it should be totally white above her head and down to, or below, her knees
The most common reasons for above are - the rear lights aren't powerful enough, that they are positioned too high, and that the umbrella/softboxes aren't big enough. This is compounded by the obvious lack of space between subject & background in this shot (presumably you just don't have much space?)
If you can... move both the subject and rear lights towards you a bit, even a foot will make a difference in evening out the rear lighting. If still not right, reduce the key light's output by 1 f-stop compared to the rear (expose for the key of course) and you should see an improvement
The original exposure was probably 1/2 stop under, and although MM's PP is good as a recovery, the skin tones have suffered a bit - most noticeable in her foot
If you can get it right at the taking, PP is simply a wipe around the front with a soft-edged white brush which takes 10-20 seconds and maintains the skin colour more accurately as you don't change the exposure at all
The face-on posing doesn't normally work too well, but you can get away with it with kids - what's really nice in your shot is the clearly unforced smile & connection to the girl, showing you're relating well to your subject
Having said all that, it could just be you're after a highly processed look to the shot, in which case it worked pretty well... and now ignore all of the above
I hope those comments make sense & help a bit?
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