Another friend in soft light
Thiago Sigrist
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Hello again, folks!
You might remember one of my shots from an earlier post, which was a portrait of a smiling friend.
Well, here she is again! Now I shot her in this very soft light, under the trees. Here's how the picture came out:
I tried to achieve a really crisp look, so I used sharpening selectively on her eyes, lips and everything else that was in focus. I used agressive amounts, don't remember what the number was exactly, and a radius of about 0.5.
The rest of processing (which I did BEFORE the sharpening) was basically local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask with the settings 20, 60, 0. Also used a 'soft light' adjustment layer with 35% opacity and boosted saturation +12.
An additional trick regarding sharpness is the way I scaled my picture down to 532x800. I used 'Bicubic' interpolation on PS, and after resizing I applied extra Unsharp Mask with a radius of 0.1 and an amount of around 100. I found that does the 'crisp trick' for me. :-)
So... what do you guys think of it? :-)
Thanks in advance for all your attention!
-- thiago
You might remember one of my shots from an earlier post, which was a portrait of a smiling friend.
Well, here she is again! Now I shot her in this very soft light, under the trees. Here's how the picture came out:
I tried to achieve a really crisp look, so I used sharpening selectively on her eyes, lips and everything else that was in focus. I used agressive amounts, don't remember what the number was exactly, and a radius of about 0.5.
The rest of processing (which I did BEFORE the sharpening) was basically local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask with the settings 20, 60, 0. Also used a 'soft light' adjustment layer with 35% opacity and boosted saturation +12.
An additional trick regarding sharpness is the way I scaled my picture down to 532x800. I used 'Bicubic' interpolation on PS, and after resizing I applied extra Unsharp Mask with a radius of 0.1 and an amount of around 100. I found that does the 'crisp trick' for me. :-)
So... what do you guys think of it? :-)
Thanks in advance for all your attention!
-- thiago
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Hey friends!
Took your advice and removed some of the stray hairs on her face (I replaced the original picture with the new one). This looks like a real improvement to my eyes! What do you guys think?
Thanks so much for the lovely compliments and for pointing that out: the hairs sure were distracting elements...
Take care!
-- thiago
This is a beautiful portrait for which you have captured the feelings and expression of a person in a lovely way.
I started to post in dgrin recently and I'm very glad to find you here.
I still remember the wonderful pictures you took last year on children's day in Brazil.
Cheers
Moti
Great photo, thiago!
Like the sharpness and colors. The only thing that bothers me - the composition. Ithink that a more close-up crop will be better here. Maybe its only me, but I feel that her head is draw into her shoulders... That is because of the angle of taking shot, I think. Besides I don't think that background here playes any role to the composition, just as her shoulders and bust. You know I mean eyes - in case of more close cropping much more attention will be payed for her wonderful eyes!
What do you think?
Thiago my friend, again you have managed to shoot a beautiful woman! I must say you really do her justice with this photo
I'm very anti-rules in this case, and I really regret not having seen the version with more unruly hair
Michiel de Brieder
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The light here is wonderful. I love selective sharpening, especially the eyes. For portraits I really like a shallow depth of field... even throughout the subject, as that would further draw attention to the eyes and lips.
Nice photo of a pretty girl!
Jim
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YOu got a great pic of a gorgeous girl. Your sharpening efforts paid off termendously.
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Guys and gals, that's really a lot of feedback!
I'll be brief but I'll respond to you all...
Moti: Hey, now *I* am glad to see you here! I see you're doing pretty fine with your new camera, so keep us posted!
Yuri and Lynn: I understand exactly what you mean! Since this was the first photo from the shoot, I still hadn't tried to get closer or work the compo more, but I really liked this photo because of her expression! However, your desire to see her closer-up is an order, so stay tuned for my newer post!
Michiel: Thanks so much for your lovely compliments! Worry not because of the unruly hairs, because the only ones I removed were the ones that covered her eyes and lips, therefore being distracting in my opinion.
Jim: Thanks a lot! I remember some portraits you shot, back when you were testing a Sigma cam if I'm not mistaken, and they were pretty cool because of the very shallow DOF that drew attention to the girl's nice eyes! I love that as well!
canonguy: Hi man! Thanks a lot for your compliments! I'm really a sharpening freak so I always spend a lot of time trying to get the most detail from my shots!
Thanks so much for all the attention!
-- thiago