Tight Crop Head shot of my wife

had some friends come over to do a few portraits for their upcomming wedding, and while waiting for them I set up my lights and fired off a few test shots of the wife.

might have gone a little heavy with the skin smoothing, changed my mind on what it was set to last night

Canon 20D w/Sigma 70-200 2.8 shot Jpeg

Lighting was a 550EX and 580EX in home made softboxes with an ST-E2 on Camera

1/160 f8 ISO 200 70-200 @ 122mm

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Lighting good, focus good, if the other portraits turned out as good they would have to be happy.

I messed with it a little. I hope you don't mind. Let me know what you think.

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Great shot but love the one that RP33 did.

RP33 wrote in post #3864420
I messed with it a little. I hope you don't mind. Let me know what you think.

How did you do that? I can pull off some things in PS, but not that.

...or maybe...

Skin looks over done (for my taste) on the 2 retouches, thanks for the effort though.

thanks for the compliments

-Johnny

I think RP's edit isn't too over the top, but it's still not her natural skin tones. It's a fine knife-edge when you mess with the wife's appearance- one slip and you're dead meat.

I dont like the airbrushed look...I like the look of the first one...

not that the person who did the airbrushing did a bad job, I think it just looks too fake...

I'm not usually a fan of too much make up, but a little here might do some good. Don't take this the wrong way, but unless I knew it was a woman, I might have gotten confused about the sex. Probably not something you'd want to put across in wedding shots.

Technically good though.