What do you make of this, Yuri :) ?

Davidoff

Taken in a beach here in Portugal, warm but very overcast day... nice lightning I'd say

rosselliot

this is a great photo!
wonderful skin tones and her eyes are so wonderfully in focus. I kinda like the crop on this one, adds to the interest of the photo. I say the main point is her eyes - great photo! thanks for sharing!

- RE

jamism

silhouette.
i can see your silhouette in her eye. :oogle. i have a cool up close of an eye and you can see me in it. its neat... i will have to find it.

Davidoff

Indeed you can, here is a 100% crop, sharpened



Thank you rosselliot, those are very kind words. I'm sure she will like to read them as well.

Yuri Pautov

Davidoff wrote:

Taken in a beach here in Portugal, warm but very overcast day... nice lightning I'd say

Priviet!
I like it very much. Some critique and comments:
I.
1. Desaturate a bit
2. Play with eyes:
Select eyes - make a copy layer of them
Choose blending Soft light mode.
Using white brush make changes you need to eyes.
Play with Opacity...
Hope you'll get just another version.

II. Use Highlight shadows (play) - then make b&w.

Pls Show us results if they will be interesting to you!
Spaibo,
Yuri

Davidoff

Thanks for your comment/critique, here are two new versions

1


2


I tried to follow your tips, but I have a couple questions. How would you use the white brush on the eyes? To what effect ? Do you use the shadow/higlight command before converting to black and white ? I don't think I should turn it to black and white, it kind of looses the interest point of the eyes matching the background so well.

gluwater

I think what Yuri means about the white brush is useing a mask to select the eyes. For info on masks check out [thread=29443]this reading group[/thread].

Yuri Pautov

I tried to follow your tips, but I have a couple questions. How would you use the white brush on the eyes? To what effect ? Do you use the shadow/higlight command before converting to black and white ? I don't think I should turn it to black and white, it kind of looses the interest point of the eyes matching the background so well.

Sorry, I'll repeat :
When you had selected eyes and made a new layer of them - choose the next blending mode: 'Soft light'.
Using brush (with white color) in this layer make changes you need to eyes.
Yuri

Davidoff

Oh... I think I understood it now, is this it? the left eye was masked, the right one is the same as the one above. ( by the way, sorry I took so long to reply, I was on holiday )