stop and smell the roses

burkeburke Registered Users Posts: 131 Major grins
edited August 12, 2005 in People
I just joined and am new to all this so go easy on me...
thanks,
Autumn

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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited August 11, 2005
    Hi Burke and welcome to dGrin. She's a lovely little girl.

    The image appears a little dark; what camera were you shooting with and at what settings?
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  • burkeburke Registered Users Posts: 131 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2005
    Angelo wrote:
    Hi Burke and welcome to dGrin. She's a lovely little girl.

    The image appears a little dark; what camera were you shooting with and at what settings?
    This was shot with a Nikon D70 at 1/400 sec and f/5 - outdoors with a fill flash for the catchlights..
  • PeterGarPeterGar Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2005
    It's really a great shot. Very cute!

    The lighting just needs to be bumped up. Too dark as is.
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  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2005
    burke wrote:
    I just joined and am new to all this so go easy on me...
    thanks,
    Autumn
    Hope you are not offended, just helping out a fellow Nikonian. (D70's are notorious for underexposing a bit, especially compared with a P&S

    first did a 'Rutt' and corrected the color in lab by making sure the white collar read 0/0 in a and b

    Then lightened and aded a little contrast

    last redid the eyes, and created new pupils and moved the catch light out of teh pupil to the (viewer) left.

    XO,
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  • burkeburke Registered Users Posts: 131 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2005
    XO-Studios wrote:
    Hope you are not offended, just helping out a fellow Nikonian. (D70's are notorious for underexposing a bit, especially compared with a P&S

    first did a 'Rutt' and corrected the color in lab by making sure the white collar read 0/0 in a and b

    Then lightened and aded a little contrast

    last redid the eyes, and created new pupils and moved the catch light out of teh pupil to the (viewer) left.

    XO,
    not offended at all.. I can use all the help I can get!
    I like how you moved the catch light - and I like how you brightened the background.
    But don't you think she looks a little greenish? -AB
  • PeterGarPeterGar Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2005
    burke wrote:
    not offended at all.. I can use all the help I can get!
    I like how you moved the catch light - and I like how you brightened the background.
    But don't you think she looks a little greenish? -AB
    I agree. Too green. Between the shopped version and the original, I prefer the orignal. Sorry.
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  • OwenOwen Registered Users Posts: 948 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2005
    I adjusted the curves to brighten her, added some saturation (+15) and then some contrast (+5), dodged her eyes to draw your attention to them and balanced her skin color using the 'Color Balance' tool in Photoshop, reducing the reds.

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  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2005
    burke wrote:
    not offended at all.. I can use all the help I can get!
    I like how you moved the catch light - and I like how you brightened the background.
    But don't you think she looks a little greenish? -AB
    Yes a little greenish indeed. Laptop screen changes between being on power and being hooked up to the juice, can see it now (powered).

    XO,

    Addition, on top of that, I might have a display issue, can someone tell me what this version looks like on their monitor.

    Addition 2: DUUHHHHHH Had my PS in Adobe colorspace while smugmug and dgrin display in sRGB, that made a differnce as well
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2005
    Hi Burke wave.gif and welcome! Very nice shot even if it was a little dark. She a beautiful child.. looking forward to seeing more.
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