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ckort
25th of December 2008 (Thu), 21:34
Taken with 18 - 55mm IS lens - 1/100 - f4.5 - ISO 400 - Focal length 35mm
SwingBopper
25th of December 2008 (Thu), 21:45
Maybe boost contrast/saturation a bit. and tone down the hot lights camera left.
OL9245
26th of December 2008 (Fri), 07:54
The shot itself is nice. I dont see any problem. If you could have get a shallower DOF in the shot, the effect would heve been much better. Alternately, you can fix tis in Photoshop with the lens blur and an alpha layer for the depth.

If you want to improve the image in PS, you may want to work on local contrasts and white balance, (plus blurring the BG as mentionned)

local contrasts : you have pure wites and pure blacks in the fabricks.if yu want to have details in both, you need a little of shadow-higligts. I did something differnet, but ~ equivalent.

WB : the warm light is okay. you dont want to modify it to save the ambiance. But you need to have the whte fabriccs white, and blacks black.
I did this with 2 separate WB layers, and masking.

http://masla.smugmug.com/photos/442992828_sPo6n-X3.jpg
ckort
26th of December 2008 (Fri), 16:07
That looks great! I only have DPP for editing right now. Is what you did possible with DPP?
OL9245
26th of December 2008 (Fri), 22:31
That looks great! I only have DPP for editing right now. Is what you did possible with DPP?

I'm not sure. Actually I use only Photoshop. GIMP is a free alternative that users look to be comfortable with. You can redo most onf the edits with GIMP. Bluring selectively a background is painfull by hand, but very convenient with the "lens blur" photoshop filter.