Isaac's sister Heather at the family Easter gathering.
-Created mask for subject
-RGB Curve on BG
-Hue/Sat adjustment on BG to partially desaturate
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves on subject
-Gaussian Blur on BG at 16 pixels radius
-Cropped to final aspect ratio
-Created gradient mask L>R covering hand and arm
-Gaussian Blur applied to hand/arm at 4 pixel radius
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH=0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=7
-Retouched a few over-sharpened artifacts around hair and clothing using Clone, Dodge/Burn, and Blur tools
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 136kb
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Place: 176 out of 199 Avg (all users): 4.8008 Avg (commenters): 5.2000 Avg (participants): 4.5739 Avg (non-participants): 4.9735 Views since voting: 1313 Views during voting: 423 Votes: 266 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
the post prosses here is very drastic and i can see the eadges, next time watch for that with feathering or blend it better in another way so it is less appearent. also using DoF to achieve the same resould would have saved time and been a cleaner image in the end.....its a nice cover also but doesn't strike me as a studio portrait...this is based on the difused/and somewhat flat light (as from a cloudy day)... a spot simple home light set up and it would read more as studio...
You are quite right on two points -- sloppy masking and an outdoors shot. I was rushed in my editing (shot the last day) and had zero indoor portraiture opportunities during the week. My camera will only achieve a shallow DOF on macros, hence my attempt to achieve it in post-processing.
the post prosses here is very drastic and i can see the eadges, next time watch for that with feathering or blend it better in another way so it is less appearent. also using DoF to achieve the same resould would have saved time and been a cleaner image in the end.....its a nice cover also but doesn't strike me as a studio portrait...this is based on the difused/and somewhat flat light (as from a cloudy day)... a spot simple home light set up and it would read more as studio...
Not a good title. Sorry. :) I do like everything about the photo except for that pale egg and her out of focus arm. Maybe I'm not getting it. Anyway, just my .02 cents. Good luck.
OH MAN! You almost nailed this image! SO CLOSE, I feel for you. If only you had the plane over her face to the egg to be in focus then you would have had an awesome image well worth an 8 or 9. Unfortunately, the beautiful necklace distracts me and the garment she is wearing under the jacket makes me want to look at her boobs--my eye goes right to that area.
This photo seems to suffer a bit from the post editing.
The shallow DOF seem to have been edited-in through blurring and sharpening, am I correct? Giving this photo an almost artificial appearance.
Nonetheless, I still think this is a fairly good photo, and will vote it well.
The hand and egg is terribly distracting from this shot. I think I just would have like thid one better had you cropped out the whole left side and just focused on the girl.
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