Madame Adventurer Extraordinaire

Llywellyn · January 14, 2010

Shot this series back in November when my friend contacted me one day and said she felt like shooting again. (You might remember her from here. Cleans up nicely, doesn't she?

) Finally got a chance to finish processing them all and wanted to share my first shoot post-McNally.

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Full series here.

Thanks for stopping by! :thumb

jeffreaux2 · January 14, 2010

The lighting is super moody, and I like the use of textures with this style of processing. The eye work looks like a mis-match in a few of them....with number 3 being the most obvious of these.

Still though.....very nice set.....style and mood prevail!

adbsgicom · January 14, 2010

Really nice set there. Great light and mood.

Minor nit is the smudge on her cheek is over smoothed and it looks like it was PS'ed on afterward. Though perhaps she is so stylish, even her grease-marks are feathered....

ian408 · January 14, 2010

You've done well with these. Especially #3. I love the look of the shot. Maybe a little less light would be better?

I do like this set.

heatherfeather · January 14, 2010

My fav is 9! But all are lovely. I do agree with Jeff on the eyes thing on 3, though.

I bet she loved these!

l.k.madison · January 14, 2010

She's very Amelia Earhart in that last one. And oh my, does she clean up nicely!!

Shame you couldn't have gotten her IN that airplane with the hat on (or did you and I just didn't see them all?)

0bscura · January 15, 2010

Awesome work. I love all the warm tones and texture.

Who is McNally if you don't mind me asking?

Agnieszka · January 15, 2010

:jawdrop

W-O-W!

Llywellyn · January 15, 2010

Thanks for the comments and feedback, all!

Jeff, et al, interesting about her eyes. I didn't do anything to them beyond brighten them, but it seems as if she has a slightly lazy left eye. I have never noticed that before. Did some work on #3 to make the natural occurrence less noticeable. Next time I shoot her, I'll try shooting her right side. Something I should learn to see as I pursue portraits, so thank you for pointing it out.

l.k.madison wrote:

Shame you couldn't have gotten her IN that airplane with the hat on (or did you and I just didn't see them all?)

I didn't, mainly because I didn't have a good base plane image to accomplish that. All the plane shots are composites, and the planes were photographed long before I had this series idea.

0bscura wrote:

Who is McNally if you don't mind me asking?

Joe McNally, lighting genius.

Halite · January 15, 2010

Llywellyn wrote:

Thanks for the comments and feedback, all!

Jeff, et al, interesting about her eyes. I didn't do anything to them beyond brighten them, but it seems as if she has a slightly lazy left eye. I have never noticed that before. Did some work on #3 to make the natural occurrence less noticeable. Next time I shoot her, I'll try shooting her right side. Something I should learn to see as I pursue portraits, so thank you for pointing it out.

I didn't, mainly because I didn't have a good base plane image to accomplish that. All the plane shots are composites, and the planes were photographed long before I had this series idea.

Joe McNally, lighting genius.

Entertaining and fun concept! Tremendous execution--you did more than just pay attention in Joe's class.

Regarding the eyes: it looks as if a couple of the selections for the brightening could've been feathered more. The transition is hard-edged and mechanical, rather than organic. #6 is the most credible in this regard.

lilmomma · January 15, 2010

awesome photos! I would never have believed those were composites on the plane ones. Seriously cool stuff.

met · January 18, 2010

These are too cool. #9 is my favorite.

dmmattix · January 18, 2010

Love the set. Like #9 especially, the eyes seem more natural with that one.

Eyes are difficult for me also that is why I just recently ended up buying Portrait Professional (<cite>www.portraitprofessional.com)</cite>. It has a masking outlining tool to identify the eyes and then refines it from there. Much better than I have been able to do manually. I also like its skin textures better than Portraiture (<cite>www.imagenomic.com). </cite>Now you can probably make Portraiture do exactly what you want but Portrait Professional was simpler and quite a bit cheaper...

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Nikonic1 · January 18, 2010

I think I'm in love. She's gorgeous.

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Oh....the photos.....nice work!!!

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Darren Troy C · January 18, 2010

Great concept Like 'em all!

digidrone · January 19, 2010

Thought #8 was a comp, but #7 had me.
Awsome series.....

FlyNavy · January 19, 2010

I love #9!!! My daughter is a USAF pilot and this gives me a great idea to recreate this shot with her as my subject. Great work!!!
John

nightpixels · January 19, 2010

Holy cow, you put so much work into this. Absolutely amazing series! It is quite entertaining to follow the story. Superb job!

PhotosbyKW · January 21, 2010

Halite wrote:

Entertaining and fun concept! Tremendous execution--you did more than just pay attention in Joe's class.

Regarding the eyes: it looks as if a couple of the selections for the brightening could've been feathered more. The transition is hard-edged and mechanical, rather than organic. #6 is the most credible in this regard.

I love them. Actually, I quickly browsed through your site, and you have a lot of amazing shots there.

Thanks for sharing.

KAW.

Madame Adventurer Extraordinaire

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