Will pay for help editing this photo

celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
edited April 10, 2009 in Finishing School
I totally screwed this shot up....but i need to see if it can be fixed....will pay for services...can anyone help????? I will email to you if you are good in fixing lots of hotspots

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  • speedracer04speedracer04 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    celeste wrote:
    I totally screwed this shot up....but i need to see if it can be fixed....will pay for services...can anyone help????? I will email to you if you are good in fixing lots of hotspots

    The photo is not working
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    [I can not upload it, is too large
  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    could i send it to you through email??
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited April 9, 2009
    celeste wrote:
    could i send it to you through email??

    If you post a smaller version, it might give us some idea of what the problems are. Also, if you have it posted on some photo site, you might be able to link to it. How To Post on Dgrin
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  • speedracer04speedracer04 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    I sent you a pm, if you want i can put it in my smugmug and link so it shows in the thread.
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    thanks, I am sending it to you right now!
  • speedracer04speedracer04 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    celeste wrote:
    thanks, I am sending it to you right now!

    Here is the photo

    508980072_jCbcQ-L.jpg
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    Thanks! What do you think????
  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    I know what you think....so never mind that question....do you think there is any hope for it. I thought about adding a soft focus around the edge and that will help the pants a bit....but what about the faces, arms, legs!
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited April 9, 2009
    celeste wrote:
    I know what you think....so never mind that question....do you think there is any hope for it. I thought about adding a soft focus around the edge and that will help the pants a bit....but what about the faces, arms, legs!

    The pants are hopeless. All you can do is make them gray as there's no detail there. I would crop out most of the bottom, even though the composition will suffer some. There are also areas of skin that are blown, but a good retoucher could probably fix that. Here's a 30 second version:

    508989525_7bp4y-L.jpg

    This was just adding a copy of the image as a layer in multiply mode. If you shot in RAW, it might be possible to do better, but the bottom line is that the shot was over-exposed. Sorry I can't be more helpful, but hopefully one of the post wizards can offer something better.
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    R U a good retoucher?.....i am desperatly seeking one!
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited April 9, 2009
    celeste wrote:
    R U a good retoucher?.....i am desperatly seeking one!

    Nah, just a dilettante. This needs a pro, I'm afraid. Sorry.
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    can you recommend someone?
  • TheSuedeTheSuede Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    I think the faces are the least of the existing problems... :) From a few other portraits, structure and tone is rebuildable. The youngest in the middle might be a problem depending on how big the intended target presentation is.

    The totally blown white fabric is a bigger problem, this is up for artistic consideration - it's a total remake/paint-in job.

    10mins with som highlight rebuilding (nothing on the clothes) gave me this:
  • hawkeye978hawkeye978 Registered Users Posts: 1,218 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    As Richard asked, did you shoot the picture in RAW mode? If you did, you could get almost 2-Stops of exposure relief by manipulating the RAW file first. That would make it slightly easier to pull it back.
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  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    I am going to an 11x14 with this...i hope. I am planning to crop as much of the pants as possible....do you think it is possible though.
  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    I have another file...that i think may be slightyl better but it is too large to post.. not sure how to do that either....i am an idiot today!
  • celesteceleste Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2009
    no i did not shoot in raw
  • kwcrowkwcrow Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2009
    speedracer04 wrote:
    Here is the photo

    508980072_jCbcQ-L.jpg

    I was able to recover the blown parts of the faces, but there is not much to work with in the white clothing.
    I also thought the man's hair was a little blueish and also the bushes and the brick, so I took the blue cast out.
    508980072_jCbcQ-L-Edit.jpg
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