Barbara + Sherm 10.27.07

Here goes another post I'm hoping to get rougher criticism on these pictures...so dont' disappoint me! These are friends that came to visit in San Francisco. My friend's girlfriend is from Brazil, and I couldn't decide if she looked more like Catherine Zeta Jones or Katherine McPhee! I'll let the members on POTN decide

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More pictures....I think i went a little PP crazy and overdid some of the photos I wanted to play with the contrast, and couldn't get the right skin tone on the faces...any tips or suggestions?

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Last few....

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pic5 is really bad in exposure.. as for the others from my opinion they are gr8
and for me.. the girl doesn't look like nor Catherine Zeta not Mcphee

Thanks amironsi, I was trying to play with a high contrast look for #5 to give the yellow truck some POP. It was a tough picture for me to PP cuz the original picture was already overexposed to begin with. But you're definately right, the exposure is really bad. Here's another try

These are all fantastic! I like your original #5 and would only crop out the slushy, it has that cool hot deserty route 66 feel with long sleeves. Thanks for sharing!

I like the pics. On 5 if you want the truck to pop but are ruining the faces just use a layer mask (if you have photoshop) and paint the skin out of the adjustment layer.

Great pics...........I love #8

I enjoyed the series a lot..

I really like the style and PP techniques you used.

I really like #3 and #8

I love them all! Can't find a single then I don't like about them!

1) I like this, but I feel like it lacks pop. Maybe you can saturate and make the land all green. I just wish there were more landmarks that identify the picture with the city of SF. This could make a good landscape shot?? The long skinny pictures? brain fart
2) nice
3) wish I could've seen his expression
4) lucky man
5) I see what you're trying to do with #5 originally and I like it. The truck is awesome, but the skin colors come out crazy. I'm no PP expert and I can't even figure out how to do this myself, but maybe gradients will work? Also, I feel like it's too much tilt...made me dizzy.
6) doesn't do anything for me
7) I like the colors, but again, I see the back of his head
8) My favorite...love her expression, love the composition
9) meh
10) Great location and composition with the building...not sure about the pose for that particular location. Beautiful building...sexy pose??
11) Very very nice...I like this one alot!

nice series - like them all

I really like these. Esp #'s 1,2,4,9, and 11.

thanks for all the comments everyone and the constructive criticism from extravaluemeal

I really like this series! I enjoyed it a lot!

The only thing I noticed is that in pic 11, you can see the dust on your sensor... on the right side of the photo. You may want to clone it out.