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Available light portraits

Postby BullcreekBob on Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:22 pm

Any feedback folks?


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Nikon D300; Sigma 24-70mm; f/5.6; 1/1600th sec; PP in CaptureNX2
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Re: Available light portraits

Postby Marvin on Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:29 pm

I really like the desat look of the second. The first seems a little washed out to me and the third very bright orange on the face. I would be tempted to clone out the second dude in the fourth. It is a nice, strong profile to me.
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Re: Available light portraits

Postby Glen on Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:11 pm

Hi Bob, you threw me with the first two, the colouring is so different. Like the first 3, I think the PP could be different, the first seems to be too red based on the underside of your models hand.
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Re: Available light portraits

Postby BullcreekBob on Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:45 pm

Glen wrote:Hi Bob, you threw me with the first two, the colouring is so different. Like the first 3, I think the PP could be different, the first seems to be too red based on the underside of your models hand.


In the first image, the models hands were so unbelieveably red (I think she'd tried rubbing them together briskly to warm her hands on a cold day). It was in an attempt to find ways to take away some of the red that I tried a more high key approach to processing. To me, the desaturated second image just seems to sit well with her disinterested gaze.
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Re: Available light portraits

Postby carla_d on Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:37 am

i think the second image could benefit from an increase in the contrast - or maybe squeezing the levels a bit.
and with those first two, did you consider using colour control points in NX2 to reduce saturation in the face only (rather than across the whole image)?

i really like the last portrait - especially the figure in the background, appearing in that shaft of light.
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