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EDIT: I no longer have the time for this. Sorry. Feb 24 16 02:20 am Link I'm interested! But your port seems to be mainly beauty retouching. Can you accept other types of photos? I have some that were shot outdoors, natural light. Feb 25 16 08:46 pm Link Feb 25 16 10:41 pm Link Hi Anchev, I've sent you a photo via PM, to see how you'd retouch it. Feb 27 16 01:56 am Link Feb 27 16 05:33 am Link Thank you, I quite like the touch up, but on my computer it looks like there's a pretty yellow cast. I'll see how it looks when opened in photoshop later. The eyelashes were a big problem.. earlier I tried to just clone everything to look more uniform, but there wasn't enough of the original black color to cover all the white spots. Feb 27 16 05:37 am Link Feb 27 16 05:47 am Link Feb 27 16 08:40 am Link Feb 27 16 11:31 am Link I agree with you - "The model might hate me for this" Feb 27 16 02:15 pm Link I think that photo looks really great in monochrome. Feb 27 16 07:52 pm Link anchev wrote: This is very good of you George, to lend your time and talent is quite generous. Feb 27 16 08:37 pm Link Feb 28 16 12:00 am Link Hello anchev, I like your idea very much and I am thinking about wich RAW to send to you. What I do not understand is the first part of your feedback "First impression" or "What do we see". "A girl sitting on the floor in unnatural and uncomfortable pose........" reminds me to the man asked, what is a soccer game?, answering, twentytwo grown-up running after a ball. Arent most of the bauty or fashion pictures without any sence (besides keeping attention or selling something). Of course there is a first impression of any picture, and maybe in less than a secound we decide if we like it or not. I love many pictures with unnatural and uncomfortable poses. In this way I can describe one of your photographer portfolio pictures "A girl is hitting herself without any reason to the right cheek, and even if we know it does not hurt, shes opening her mouth as if it would." I cant see the reason to describe pictures in that way. Are you doing it to get the direction of the retouch, like should i use warm or cold colors, or are you doing it to understand why this photo was taken? Please let me know, because I retouch my own pictures and I am interested in the part we should think about before we start the retouch. Greetings Frank Feb 28 16 02:16 am Link Feb 28 16 04:16 am Link Thread peaked my interest as I use an Eizo CG-248 4K monitor and I had to look at the cosplay image on it under its factory set profiles due to the yellow questioning response. Also, the new Windows 10 "Photo Viewer" does make it more saturated, especially the red flowers, than in CS6 too. By default, the new Windows 10 photo viewer does enhancing on its own (There is a way to turn it off in settings.). The yellow cast on the first cosplay image is likely due to the blond hair color casts. However, on her arm sans any makeup, it does look correct in the retouch to me on my Eizo as well. I guess one could argue the photo being taken in the shade and maybe with a cold-colored flash as well which would make us think it should be more blue tint too. Remove the yellow tint and the arm will go bluish. For Sausage69, I see where you used a D7100 and possibly the kit zoom lens (18-105mm or 18-140mm). I have an older D7000 and the 18-105mm kit lens really never was sharp for me. I traded it in and went to the "supposedly better" 18-200mm and it was worse which was disappointing, but seemed in line with DxO findings I later learned. Someone twisted my arm to try the 24-70mm f/2.8 and what huge increase in sharpness, it was like a whole new camera. I do like the monochrome one a lot! Nice nose job too. I might move her upper row of teeth to the left a bit to center with her lower teeth that appear even with her nose line. Don't know if she canted her jaw a bit as her mouth-line appears correct. Maybe remove the stray loose forehead hairs too, but still it's a cool looking retouch. Feb 28 16 08:13 am Link Hello anchev, thanks for your reply, which cleared my questiones. Here is the link to my pic I would appreciate if you could retouch https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxsn2xoo1dm6z … 5.ARW?dl=0 Here are my impression of the original pics so far. On first one its obvious that it is to dark. The second for me is, tha the eyes look down or are closed, that makes it a bit live less. On the secon I thin the model is a bit tired or not at the spot with her attention, pics like that I sometimes get in last part of a shooting. Greetings Frank Feb 28 16 08:19 am Link Feb 28 16 08:37 am Link Feb 28 16 09:39 am Link Hi, thank you for your feedback. I can follow every sentence of it and I think you nailed the important points. For the bad quality theres the shame on me, I switched from Canon to Sony and this was my first shooting with the new camera, and at some point I must have pushed the wrong button by accident. So technically the rest of the shooting was a disaster. Anyway this time two links and if you want to, you can choose one of them, it would be me a pleasure. Regards Frank https://www.dropbox.com/s/84uo00z7g5aox … 9.CR2?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/dmxs41kbu914k … 7.CR2?dl=0 Feb 28 16 01:34 pm Link Feb 28 16 02:05 pm Link Very interested. Sending an image. Feb 28 16 04:44 pm Link Feb 29 16 08:50 am Link Feb 29 16 08:53 am Link anchev wrote: This is interesting as I had some issue with that same image that I couldn't figure out. Fwiw, I also played a bit with it but gave it up for some reason. Feb 29 16 10:30 am Link Feb 29 16 11:51 am Link Thanks, for your effort. I think your absolutly right, that the pic is unbalanced because the attention switches between head and arms, I had that feeling looking at it, but it did not come clear in my mind. Hair is a mess, I had problem with all shoots in this series, The necklace is my fault and the bra was necessary but maybe another type of bra would be better. Colors for my taste are to strong, and maybe to crop the picture at the button would be good. Feb 29 16 11:56 am Link Feb 29 16 12:11 pm Link I think we all learn something about retouching, even though there are times the subject in the photo might not like our interpretation (damhik either!).  I just had a try at Frank's "Dirty Boxes" shot and I did learn something about using Noise > Median in PS to get rid of the dirty areas without a lot of work (Did blur the box edges a bit though.). Then the Afro-hair became another big mess so I had to re-learn Topaz Remask and fix the strandy-hair stuff. So a bit of re-learning helped me a bit so not all was lost.  Above in sRGB and Windows 10. Didn't look at it on the Eizo so hope it's right on whatever viewer since they all seem different. Good practice though. Thanks Frank for the play. Feb 29 16 12:24 pm Link Feb 29 16 12:52 pm Link anchev wrote: Just a few questions! Feb 29 16 01:11 pm Link Feb 29 16 01:38 pm Link Feb 29 16 01:40 pm Link anchev wrote: Rather condescending. I don't even want to get into the unsolicited critiques as if you were in the photographer's head and know what they were going for. Feb 29 16 07:40 pm Link As a retoucher, why would you remove anything other than blemishes without the photographer or creative/art director expressing so? Unless you're told otherwise, the bra is part of the look. The browser isn't the problem with sRGB vs Adobe RGB rendering (nor are computers or monitors). AdobeRGB (wide gamut color/sat/gamma/etc) is primarily for print. sRGB is for web and general computer or handheld use(close enough is good enough with compression) since that's what the digital industry adopted as a standard with the exception of major printing. It has to do with JPEG rendering engines and the way they handle specific ICC Profiles and color spaces via different websites. Not all websites convert Adobe RGB to sRGB to negate the issue. Further, Adobe RGB looks bland with desaturated reds when rendered with sRGB engines. Quite the opposite of your explanation. This characteristic is also NOT converse in the opposite side. sRGB will look the same on the web when rendered with an Adobe RGB engine. Edit. I just noticed you keep switching between sRGB and aRGB without realizing it. Odd thing for a "retoucher" to do. Feb 29 16 08:01 pm Link David Kilper wrote: Thank you. Feb 29 16 09:26 pm Link David Kilper wrote: Thank you again !!! Feb 29 16 09:32 pm Link I think it's converting issue because my photos look the same in Firefox or Chrome. Are you using Prophoto RGB in photoshop and what about the outgoing converting setup to sRGB? Feb 29 16 10:39 pm Link Mar 01 16 01:20 am Link anchev wrote: as I though! In your case it's not the browser. Mar 01 16 02:59 am Link |
