Kimono red

Lost so much color in uploading to Flickr for some reason. Looks fine on different computers as a file. Strange. Anyway. Two lights used for this. Wanted something elegant.

I am stuck on how I should process this. Any ideas?

I think this is absolutely beautiful!

hi slimninj4, i think that you cropped the head too low. but overall it's lovely....

If I recrop you don't think that will detract from the focus being the skin on her back and the swans?

I would put her whole head in the crop: yes, it will remove some of the focus from her back and the swans, but I think it would improve the shot. Actually, I'd like to see it a bit further out to the sides as well: I think the shot would work well with the woman framed in black, with a lot more empty space. That said, it would change the look of the picture a lot, and might not be what you're going for.

Still, I like the shot a lot. The subject is great, and I like the lighting as it is.

Did you remember to convert to sRGB before uploading to Flickr? That will shift the colors if you left it as AdobeRGB or a different color profile.

I'm in no way a professional, but to me it appears just fine as it is. The whites are a little washed, but as you said, you lost color.

I would agree with this, if it is possible from the original framing.

The whites in the kimono (birds) appear on the edge of washing out--you want to save that detail if at all possible--but otherwise keeping the contrast and saturation high is what you'd want in a subject like this.

slimninj4 wrote in post #8350510
If I recrop you don't think that will detract from the focus being the skin on her back and the swans?

no. it will help to keep the focus on her back.