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Jan 16, 2011 22:07 |  #1

Would Appreciate any Feedback from anyone (both positive and negative)

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Jan 16, 2011 22:11 |  #2

Nice job on the conversion.

Two things that detract from the image, in my opinion: Her arm is very bright -- much lighter than the rest of the image. It draws your eye away from her eyes.

The other thing is the skin smoothing on the forehead and the cheek. Look at those areas compared to the rest of her skin. It's remarkably different and thus quite unnatural looking.

I'd try working with the image more and see what you can come up with.



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Jan 16, 2011 22:14 as a reply to  @ T.D.'s post |  #3

Post the original.;)


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Jan 16, 2011 22:17 |  #4

Thanks Guys ! The skin has some imperfections that I was smoothing out (Adj brush in LR3), and can see where I overdid the cheek and forehead ! Always a battle for me on skin smoothing between reality and how the model wants it to look. T.D, I brought up the overall exposure in the B&W conversion as the Asian skin tone was darker than expected... I don't think that forearm is burned out, so will attempt tone it down in LR also...


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Jan 16, 2011 22:19 as a reply to  @ post 11655755 |  #5

Lool.never mind playing.post the original!!;)


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Jan 16, 2011 22:47 |  #6

Where is the original?


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Jan 16, 2011 22:47 |  #7

I am trying to post the original, I had already moved it (the dng) to an external hard drive ! The jpg posted didn't have any layers from CS5, so I need to import the DNG and catalog settings from LR3 and then get it uploaded.

Was just asking for a little patience by injecting some humor?


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Jan 16, 2011 23:08 |  #8

OK ....Original.... I already converted to B&W, saved a snapshot in LR. I dont think the color matters, but I'll convert it back fromt he original dng if you need that

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Jan 16, 2011 23:17 |  #9

Thanks Jon... I assume you meant "very" instead of "every" ?

Problem always is, how little is "little"? I obviously overdid it on the first try, but always trying to find that medium between how people want to look in photos vs reality.


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Jan 16, 2011 23:54 |  #10

Anyone else? i posted the "original" (or close to it) as requested by several people...


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