Portrait of William, my Nephew

[kipper]

Ok for my 1000th post I decided to put up this portrait on smugmug.
No shooting info for it as yet as I'm in the process of doing other things.
Was shot with the Kit Lens iirc.


<img src="http://darryl.smugmug.com/photos/18004389-O.jpg">

[marcus]

This is a great photo. As a dad I shoot heaps of shots of my kids. I throw out plenty .... but this is is keeper kipper!! Pardon the pun. Well done.

[mudder]

This is terrific! Fantastic expression and seems to be saying "just you wait til I'm outta these bars!"...

And congrats on reaching 1000 posts too!

[ozimax]

This is a great photo. As a dad I shoot heaps of shots of my kids. I throw out plenty .... but this is is keeper kipper!! Pardon the pun. Well done.

Marcus, you're not a policeman are you? Then it would be a copper keeper kipper? If that was the case, would that be starting a copper keeper kipper caper?

Better stop here or risk being thrown off the forum...

Max

[Matt. K]

Kipper
Has this image had a levels adjustment applied?

[kipper]

Matt not as far as I know, unless white wedding curve does it. I opened up NCE, went to Curves and selected Load. Then changed filename to ANY the opened up pointandshoot.ntc (white wedding). Which I think made it look quite bright, so I think I did -1/4 to -1/2 EV and a USM.

[Matt. K]

Thanks Kipper
It's a lovely image but there seems to be something wrong with the skintones...it's as if an excessive levels or curves adjustment was made. The overall tonality just doesn't look right on my monitor. I think maybe you should reopen the RAW file and just check it side by side with the posted image. I am really interested in what might have happened here because I have seen it before on some of my own images when I have overdone the levels or the curves.
Cheers!

[kipper]

Yeah, I'm not sure but when I opened pointandshoot curve via NCE it sort of changed the skin tones and I thought it looked odd myself but then I started convincing myself it looked right. Let me post without. Actually just checked the PSD file in PS and it looks fine there but in IE totally different. In IE the skintones look too red, whereas in PS the skintone is more natural.

Ok just looked in Firefox and it displays the skintones the same.

Tried PNG, same there it's wierd.

[kipper]

Ok this is interesting. I just read somewhere that to save to JPEG from Photoshop one should use Save for Web. Instead of the usual Save option. Never realised this, had used ImageReady in the past and this slices up PSDs and makes nice GIF/JPEG for webpages but never to convert a picture for the web.