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After dinner with friends

gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
edited March 2, 2005 in People
16706559-L.jpg
iso 400 50mm f1.4 1/30 handheld
comments welcomed
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    yvonneyvonne Registered Users Posts: 193 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    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.
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    USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Grubbs
    Love itthumb.gif
    Have to look at this lens

    Thanks
    Fred
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    BridgeCityBridgeCity Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    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 thumb.gif
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    ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    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?
    If not now, when?
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    I agree with Rutt's obs. A little more detail in the forehead, and more light in the eyes. Very nice pose, good moment. nod.gif
    Sid.
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    gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Thanks for the comments and help, here's a 2nd attempt

    16735381-L.jpg

    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

    ne_nau.gif
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Much better! thumb.gif
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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    gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Much better! thumb.gif
    Thanks Sid!! thumb.gif
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    gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    & his partner, with practically the same settings,
    16737759-L.jpg
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    fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    so what's an old fart like you doing snuggling up with good looking young people like that? eek7.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
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    gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2005
    fish wrote:
    so what's an old fart like you doing snuggling up with good looking young people like that? eek7.gif
    I'm only 72 ne_nau.gif
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    ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2005
    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.)
    If not now, when?
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    KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2005
    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.
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