Ann with Small Tutorial
Yuri Pautov
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Priviet ('Hello' in Russian), dear friends!
Our forum is a place where we learn to make better photos... So many professionals here that I feel myself a bit shy...
Of course, I'm not a teacher - just some steps I make...
So...
B&w out of ordinary shot.
Just an ordinary girl on the street, watching the rehearsal of the parade on the Victory Day – 9 of May…(military men at our central square).
Her eyes (mainly expression) attracted my attention and I asked her to pose for a shot…
Full zoom with my Sony R1. Asked her to stay a bit sideways with her head turned to me…
Interesting eyes. I decide to make them the center of the composition. I feel some sort of ‘tragedy’ or ‘pain’ in those eyes…
Now I see jpg result – lets use PS.
Need tight cropping with a small turn… Change image size…
Then… some work with the healing brush on her skin – deleting some spots….
I decide that photo will be b&w – her eyes are too green and this bright color draws away my thoughts from their expression…
Some work with eyes – mark them using lasso and right click - ‘copy layer’. New layer has only eyes. Use Soft light as a blending mode and then use white brush on them…. Nice result! Decrease opacity of the ‘eyes’ layer a bit.
Merge layers.
Now to b&w
I use Optikvervelabs – free downloadable plugin for PhotoShop (www.optikvervelabs.com)
‘Film type’ – Film 1 (50)
Slide - 35
‘Photographic style’. Use pale-gray for Picker.
Effect – colorize 0
B&W – cold (a bit)
Now I like the result….
Spasibo
Yuri
Our forum is a place where we learn to make better photos... So many professionals here that I feel myself a bit shy...
Of course, I'm not a teacher - just some steps I make...
So...
B&w out of ordinary shot.
Just an ordinary girl on the street, watching the rehearsal of the parade on the Victory Day – 9 of May…(military men at our central square).
Her eyes (mainly expression) attracted my attention and I asked her to pose for a shot…
Full zoom with my Sony R1. Asked her to stay a bit sideways with her head turned to me…
Interesting eyes. I decide to make them the center of the composition. I feel some sort of ‘tragedy’ or ‘pain’ in those eyes…
Now I see jpg result – lets use PS.
Need tight cropping with a small turn… Change image size…
Then… some work with the healing brush on her skin – deleting some spots….
I decide that photo will be b&w – her eyes are too green and this bright color draws away my thoughts from their expression…
Some work with eyes – mark them using lasso and right click - ‘copy layer’. New layer has only eyes. Use Soft light as a blending mode and then use white brush on them…. Nice result! Decrease opacity of the ‘eyes’ layer a bit.
Merge layers.
Now to b&w
I use Optikvervelabs – free downloadable plugin for PhotoShop (www.optikvervelabs.com)
‘Film type’ – Film 1 (50)
Slide - 35
‘Photographic style’. Use pale-gray for Picker.
Effect – colorize 0
B&W – cold (a bit)
Now I like the result….
Spasibo
Yuri
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Seamus.
Your portraits are always so beautiful
Thanks
Fred
http://www.facebook.com/Riverbendphotos
As always, absolutely amazing photograph.
Thank you for your incredible contributions here, they are truely something to (speaking for myself, anyways) strive towards.