Self and Hubby...I think I'm getting better

[carseasoncity]

This is a self portrait of me and my husband. We just did these tonight and I just finished editing them. The first one is just greyscale with brightness/contrast, the second one is with midnight sepia, and I'm posting one more that is midnight black. I would like to know which one you like better. Keep in mind that this picture was a little underexposed to begin with,(self-portraits are HARD!) so it may not look right. I'm fairly new to photoshop, so I'm still working on black and white conversion. Thanks for any constructive criticism.

[carseasoncity]

Here's the midnight black.

Brandi

[jra]

I personally like the second pic although your shirts blend into the BG so well it looks as if you're heads are just floating there. I think a little BG seperation would work well with these pics.

[sonshine_rae]

I think you look more natural in the third one personally :).

[akhoopes]

explain your steps to get he secpnd effect if you dont mind thanks good job on the pics have a great day

[carseasoncity]

akhoopes, I just ran the midnight sepia action (off actioncentral.com) and then dodged and burned the areas that I thought needed it. Thanks!
Brandi

[akhoopes]

cool ill have to check that out thanks

[D. Craig Flory]

I like the last version the best and like most everything about the image. However, your hand is not posed well. I'm posting a version where I did a creative crop and cropped off your hand. Hope you like it.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/DC47/IMG_560120copy203Enhanced.jpg

[MagicallyDelicious]

I really like the 2nd shot.
Similar to something i did of me and my mum!

[carseasoncity]

I do like the crop. I'll have to try something similar. Thanks for the input, and I think I saw the one you did of you and your mom that you posted. I liked it.
Brandi

[Mstar]

I like the one on the left!

Mstar
:)

[goforphoto]

Nice. Has anyone ever told you that you favor Glenn Close ( http://images.meredith.com/lhj/images/05/m_100266_009_ful.jpg )

[zacker]

great photos of a great looking couple! Ilike the two B&W ones.. in the color ones your husband seems to have a bit of red around his eyes.. makes it look as if he's been crying, has a cold or bad allergies or is about to kill...lol But, I also know sometimes people want to leave things like this as is.. I re did an older pic for my wife, Its of here mom (who's passed away) and her little sister, the sister has big red cheeks, a red nose and a red chin, so i adjusted the tones and used the blur tool to soften so of moms wrinkles, I had the pic looking good, but my "Purist" wife hated it.. made me print out one that actually looked like the original!!! lol

[pagefile]

Here I did just a few adjustments on the 3rd image you posted. The 3rd image is the one I liked the best.

[elfy]

How about this?

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/elfy32the2nd/attachment-1.jpg

[goforphoto]

The first shot is the best. As for your edit elfy, when you get it that soft makes him look like Boris Koloff

[carseasoncity]

I like your edit pagefile. We're going to try again maybe tonight. As was mentioned earlier, my hand is in a weird position and I wish the hubbies chin was down a little more. He's looks a little chunky. :) If I can get us looking right, maybe I'll try some with our 3 children as well. Doesn't that sound like a nearly impossible self portrait? :)
Thanks for the input.
Brandi

[pagefile]

When you try it again, this time try this. In M mode set to f/11 at 1/125 with you 50mm and have your iso at 100 or 200. Befor you had your iso at 400 and f/2.8 and at 1/60. Just give that a try and see how it comes out. The less you have to do in photoshop the better.

[carseasoncity]

Thanks for the advice pagefile. If hubby will cooperate again I'll try. By the way, does anyone know of any examples of creative kissing pictures? I searched the net, but when you type in "kissing couple pictures", it's a whole lot of what I'm not looking for if you know what I mean. :) Any way we tried some of those the other night as well but we both just ended up looking fat. I would like to get a picture of mostly our mouths and chins. It's super hard trying to pose and take the picture. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks! Brandi

[pagefile]

Try this Google Search (http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enUS177&q=couples%20kissing&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) there are some there you may like. I didn't look through them all. But its not allot of the other stuff you don't want to see.