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Postby W00DY on Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:31 pm

Hmmm, not sure on this one???

I know the subject is gorgeous and all :wink: but still not sure???

I tried for a different kind of look. Heavy cropping and glamour style :lol:

Oh and BTW my wife took this one :D

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:32 pm

Woody I love the pic - towards surrealism

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Postby Mj on Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:43 pm

Woody... I really like this one... nice use of forground and background lighting. Please tell... what parameters did you use... flash settings, post processing etc :?: :?: :?:
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Postby W00DY on Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:47 pm

Mj wrote:Woody... I really like this one... nice use of forground and background lighting. Please tell... what parameters did you use... flash settings, post processing etc :?: :?: :?:


:lol: :lol: :lol:

My wife actually took this one and it was with the 24 - 120 VR lens, On Board Flash and ISO 1600 (she doesn't know how to change it and it was still set to 1600) :!: :!: :!:

She liked it though so I took it into Photoshop and applied the Ambience setting in Virtual Photographer (I love this plug in). I then faded the effect a little (can't remeber by how much).

So I really can't claim much for this one :lol:

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Postby Marvin on Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:54 pm

I really like it too. The eyes are really clear.
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Postby Mj on Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:03 pm

Great, thanks for the info... really helps to understand what i might do for a similar shot... haven't played much with Virtual Photographer yet but seem to remember thinking it might have some potential for portraits and the like.

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Postby beetleboy on Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:18 pm

Can't say I've ever used Virtual Photographer but you can achieve the same look with 3 simple steps in Photoshop...

1) Duplicate Layer
2) Gaussian Blur (experiment with amount)
3) Reduce the top Layer's opacity to achieve the desired effect

A fun thing to do is experiment with the top blurred layer; adjust the Levels/Curves, Brightness etc and see what effect it has on the image. This is also a nice way of making high-key photo's.

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Postby owen on Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:17 am

That's a nice photo, and beetleboy thanks for the tip! I was trying to do this yesterday with a portrait of my wife and couldn't get it, I did it again and it looks great!
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Postby ajo43 on Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:03 pm

don't know why you're not sure woody. This is great shot.

Croping works perfectly in my opinion.

And for iso 1600 you've done a great job on the noise
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Postby mudder on Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:59 am

G'day,
That's a great shot of a beautiful subject.... The lighting really works for me... Made me smile as soon as I saw it :D

Congrats to your boss for taking such a great shot... I didn't notice any noise so good job on the noise reduction (assuming you did noise reduction?)...

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Postby W00DY on Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:23 pm

Thanks for all the replies...

The more I look at it the more I like it, I am even going to get it printed I think.

Not much done on it at all other then the Virtual Photographer plugin.

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