From the Stairs

tomnovy

Jan - friend from Germany. The portrait was taken in Leicester - UK.

I have used a beauty dish (Bowens)- held by a friend in a front of the subject.

Canon 5d mark 2
Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS

My website: www.tomnovy.co.uk

Darren Troy C

Really like the tones and detail in this one. Nice shot.

tomnovy

Thank you Darren. This is my fav from the whole session

anonymouscuban

I like this shot but his head seems huge... much too large for his body. Maybe it's just the angle of the shot.

tomnovy

Well thats Jan's head

anonymouscuban

Oh man.

tomnovy

Well is not so bad.

reyvee61

Love how the lighting adds depth here, fantastic work...great tones as well.

tomnovy

Thank you Ray.

Agnieszka

Beautiful. Love it!

tomnovy

I am happy that you like it Agnieszka.

Bsimon

Tom, I look at all your posts. Love them.

Can you tell me how you get such incredibly sharp images on screen? Are you running a specific action? At full high res I can achieve this level of sharpness, but not for bloging/forum.

tomnovy

Bsimon, thank you for the comment. I am glad you like my work.
The sharpness: I do not sharpen usually in photoshop - but if I use it i use unsharp mask or the Noise Ninja Plugin which has as well sharpening setting on it. And then when I save the image I use Save for Web command and if I resize it use the (Best for reduction) resizing.

Outside photoshop I use the canon software Canon Digital Photo Professional which I think is the best sharpener for Canon files.

On the blog you see reduced photos by smugmug script which I think does great job.

I hope it helped,