A portrait for a friend - Beautiful Caitie

A lovely pose and lighting (thanks for the info). Although I think the post-processing is a bit too strong - over smoothed and starting to look CGI. A great shot like this would really benefit from capturing natural detail of the model and her hair. Not sure if the hair blur is an effect of the smoothing or DOF blur. If DOF I'd close the aperture a little to retain the hair sharpness/detail.

Well done! Reminds me of Clockwork Orange...

BenLuckman wrote in post #8395902
A lovely pose and lighting (thanks for the info). Although I think the post-processing is a bit too strong - over smoothed and starting to look CGI. A great shot like this would really benefit from capturing natural detail of the model and her hair. Not sure if the hair blur is an effect of the smoothing or DOF blur. If DOF I'd close the aperture a little to retain the hair sharpness/detail.

Hey Ben,
The model actually wanted a "high key" and perfect skin look. I agree that natural detail can be nice, but its the old thing, how much is too much?

- To me it depends on the client and what she / he wants, not me LOL!
I shot this at 1/160th f11 @100 ISO - focus point was obviously on her eye.

The DOF wasnt a consideration more than the focus to me and "Thing" was her eye, not her hair.
Thanx for your input,
Here is the before image - straight from the cam, just jpeg'd for the web.
So you can see the b4 and after. (remembering this was a Glam portrait)
Cheers, Mark

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Michael Bottoms wrote in post #8396389
Well done! Reminds me of Clockwork Orange...

Thanx Michael - great to see your still here!

Really nice. What is the camera set at?

Very nice job, too bad about the little blown out part though. I would've tried making the left side of the photo darker which now kind of has a yellowish cast on it opposed the the other side which is as white as can be.

Other than that, awesome job!

zom1414 wrote in post #8396751
Really nice. What is the camera set at?

Hey there! - Cam was set at f11 1/160sec # 145mm and 100 ISO (used a Canon 70 -200 f2.8 ISL Lens)

robertn wrote in post #8396804
Very nice job, too bad about the little blown out part though. I would've tried making the left side of the photo darker which now kind of has a yellowish cast on it opposed the the other side which is as white as can be.

Other than that, awesome job!

Hey, thanx for your input! - nothing "blown out" on my histogram with this shot, - so im not sure which bit you mean?
Yeah- LHS gold reflector was a bit close, I will fix that next shoot!
Cheers, Mark

Has a very clockwork orange feel to it. Nice shot.

Coastwatch203 wrote in post #8396485
Hey Ben,
The model actually wanted a "high key" and perfect skin look. I agree that natural detail can be nice, but its the old thing, how much is too much?

- To me it depends on the client and what she / he wants, not me LOL!
I shot this at 1/160th f11 @100 ISO - focus point was obviously on her eye.

The DOF wasnt a consideration more than the focus to me and "Thing" was her eye, not her hair.
Thanx for your input,
Here is the before image - straight from the cam, just jpeg'd for the web.
So you can see the b4 and after. (remembering this was a Glam portrait)
Cheers, Mark

I really like the shot, lighting, and style.

But I'd have to agree about the processing. I actually think something in between the two you've posted would be best. In the final image the skin is too blurred in my opinion. The lines of the chin are blurred and the texture under the lip as well.

Just one guys opinion

Great shot and what a beautiful eye, can we get another one of these with both please?

beautifull

Coastwatch203 wrote in post #8394436
Thanx Guy's ! - Just as John (JMHPhotography) said, single Elinchrom shot thru a 5 foot Octagon soft box about 4 feet from Caitie, cam right and just high enough not to cause her hat to "shadow" her face.
Gold reflector cam left and low to fill.

Wish I had have used a torch and shined it in her eyes prior to taking the shot! LOL - this would have made her pupils shrink, and therefore have more of her eye colour.

But i guess torchering models just isnt "Cricket" ! LOL

I was gonna guess Octabox... but went for the less expensive option (shoot through umbrella.) Anyway... there are things you can do in Photoshop to dial down the pupils a little. And it can look VERY natural. Wanna see?

JMHPhotography wrote in post #8406838
I was gonna guess Octabox... but went for the less expensive option (shoot through umbrella.) Anyway... there are things you can do in Photoshop to dial down the pupils a little. And it can look VERY natural. Wanna see?

Sure do wanna see!

Coastwatch203 wrote in post #8410190
Sure do wanna see!

Sorry this took a week to get back to you. I thought I had subscribed to this thread and didn't.

Took the original unedited one and processed ONLY the eye.

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nice work