Final Fantasy Cosplay @ Animazement 08

[Sabarika]

http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/travel/bw.jpg

Animazement '08. Might be Advent Children... not sure.

[ghaleon109]

Pretty cool ighting :)

I't might be FF7, assuming that's Aries and she's dead...

Yeah... nerd..

[Sabarika]

Thanks, I got lucky. It was taken in the hotel under a skylight. A lot of processing to try and fix those shadows and edit out the background muddle. I'd love any critique/feedback. Original photo:
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/travel/ff7original.thumb.jpg (http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/travel/ff7original.jpg)

I also have a color version:http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/AZ08/color.jpg

[René Damkot]

Pretty good edit I'd say. (As far as I can tell on web size)

[DwightMcCann]

Pretty good edit I'd say. (As far as I can tell on web size)

Yup, yup, but more than that it is a powerful image with romantic and sensual overtones. Would go up on my wall.

[NJRFilms]

Amazing picture. I know nothing about the Cosplay scene and I don't need to. A real keeper.

[bndgrl]

Great PP!! Good job!

[Sabarika]

Thank you so much everyone, I'm extremely flattered! I edited this on my new computer, wasn't sure if the results would be decent. I appreciate the feedback!

[DocFrankenstein]

Awesome capture. Love the light. You clipped the highlights a quite a bit though. :(

[Zansho]

Pretty cool ighting :)

I't might be FF7, assuming that's Aries and she's dead...

Yeah... nerd..

Psst! The name's Aeris. :D Or in some circles, Aerith.

In case nobody's familiar with the dude, it's the iconic Cloud.

Yes, I play the final fantasy series.

[Sabarika]

Awesome capture. Love the light. You clipped the highlights a quite a bit though. :(
Sorry, could you explain "clipped"? I haven't hard that term before. I tried to bring some out using the burn or dodge tool (one of those, I never use 'em so I forget which) but it failed pretty miserably.. especially on the girl's hair and the guy's face. I think the original is posted somewhere in here.
Again so many thanks, if anyone wants to tweak it to show me what could be done better please feel free to do so.

[DocFrankenstein]

Sorry, could you explain "clipped"? I haven't hard that term before. I tried to bring some out using the burn or dodge tool (one of those, I never use 'em so I forget which) but it failed pretty miserably.. especially on the girl's hair and the guy's face. I think the original is posted somewhere in here.
Again so many thanks, if anyone wants to tweak it to show me what could be done better please feel free to do so.
It means you overexposed the picture and there's no detail in those areas.

There's two ways you can overexpose - really blow everything out to complete white, meaning all three channels are 255. Or you can clip one of the channels only and you'll lose information in the reds in faces, which is what happened with your picture.

It's less noticeable, but makes the picture appear somewhat "flat"

[Sabarika]

Oh! Thank you very much for explaining. Looks like I have more to work on. :)

[René Damkot]

using the burn or dodge tool

Ouch.
Have a read here (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Curves.shtml) and here (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/Cramer_Selections.shtml), and start using curves adjustment layers ;)

[Sabarika]

Ouch.
Have a read here (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Curves.shtml) and here (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/Cramer_Selections.shtml), and start using curves adjustment layers ;)
I know! Tsk on me! It was my first time using dodge/burn, I had already used curves, shadow/highlights, and used d/b to accent some areas I couldn't fix without the entire image getting messed up. I need a better workflow. Thanks for the links!

[René Damkot]

without the entire image getting messed up
The nice thing about adjustment layers is that you can mask them ;)

So whatever you do is reversible, adjustable, undo-able and a lot of other "ables" ;)

[Sabarika]

Sound like I have some learning to do. :) Thank you for the advice!

[lemminglover]

Love it!