Forces of Nature

Aleksandar Vasic

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Hackbone

Simply stunning! A bit more room in front of her possibly but stunning never the less.

BrettDeutsch

Your pictures are always beautiful. My one critique -- and I've said this before about other of your portraits -- is your model's skin looks "crunchy", like you've sharpened the heck out of it. Am I the only one who sees that? I think skin should rarely if ever be sharpened -- a PS mask would fix the problem quickly.

Bilsen

BEE-YOO-TEE-FULL, both model and image.

Agree with Brett though about the oversharpening. If you look at her right cheek line you can see a distinct "halo" from the sharpening. I do it a bit differenty but after I do a USM sharpen, I use the blur tool on luminosity blend at about 28% +/- to smooth the skin.

Dr Calohandre

Good note on the use of the blur at luminosity. I use this mask technique frequently on skin tones but also to soften excessive noise when high detail is not the qualifying factor. I don't think it needs more room to the right as much as less room to the left. Her gaze stops the left side movement but isn't deep enough to hold that much dead area on her left. Still, a nice pose, nice shot and with some more PP, a quite stunning image.

novicesnapper

This image literally took my breath away. Thank you.