After dinner with friends

gubbs

iso 400 50mm f1.4 1/30 handheld
comments welcomed

yvonne

Yeah, nice. I like the shot. Generally, I like my b+w's a little more contrasty to add a slightly stronger look, but that's a personal thing.

USAIR

Grubbs
Love it
Have to look at this lens

Thanks
Fred

BridgeCity

Mine should get here today!! I can't wait to start taking some shots with an f/1.4. I only hope I can capture some quality shots such as this one! Great shot

rutt

Generally, I think this is a very nice portrait. I'd like to see some more detail in the highlight of his forehead. Perhaps a more technical B&W conversion would accomplish this. Also perhaps could open up some detail in the eyes. Perhaps highlight/shadow before the conversion?

wxwax

I agree with Rutt's obs. A little more detail in the forehead, and more light in the eyes. Very nice pose, good moment.

gubbs

Thanks for the comments and help, here's a 2nd attempt



I used a masked levels layer to lift the exposure slightly on the eyes,
spent more time playing with the channel mixer and ended up with the following settings red -16 green +98 blue +82
added some grain on ann overlay neutral gray layer

wxwax

Much better!

gubbs

wxwax wrote:

Much better!

Thanks Sid!!

gubbs

& his partner, with practically the same settings,

fish

so what's an old fart like you doing snuggling up with good looking young people like that?

gubbs

fish wrote:

so what's an old fart like you doing snuggling up with good looking young people like that?

I'm only 72

rutt

I agree that the face and background are much better in the second version. I don't like what it did to the hair and the back of his hand. You can layer the new version on top of the old one and mask out some of this (perhaps with < 100% opacity.)

Khaos

Did you shoot in RAW?

I would adjust the exposure so her face isn't in the shadow so much from the back lighting. Nice candid shot though.