Auto levels
Auto colours
Magnetic lasso select
Unsharp mask on background
Photo filter
Sharpened again and again..
uploaded..
hated..
reshot.
Burnt stuff..
Still blah..
Arggggghhhh.. the blue colour gradient across the back ground.. I didn't have blue anywhere near it.. it was black.. I tell you.. black.. increaing noise does reduce it but more the noise the worse the pic gets so I have to compromise somewhere.
I know I should have photoshopped better but, really, I tried..I'm not good at this..I just couldn't improve the lighted portion of the background.
And please remind me again 'why' I should leave studio stuff to people who 'have' a studio.
-Thank you for going through my rant. I'm having a bad day.
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>>... the blue colour gradient across the back ground
This might be possible when your subject is lit by light bulb (yellow light) and the background is not lit by same light. This might confuse your camera to choose white balance for tungsten (did I spelled it right?) light and thus giving blue tinge to background.
Well, you seriously don't need to have studio for "studio shots". All you need is plain background (any wall or cloth will do) and creative lighting. All I use in my studio shots (and their are enough in my portfolio) is light from simple light bulb hanging on free cable (so that I can move it to position ogf my choice). Sometimes computer monitor can also serve as very creative and different background.
Anyway, this is good try. Black on black is a difficult situation. You also need to work on placement of your subject. Check out on rule-of-thirds.
Photoshop is great, but its not easy. Fiddle with Picasa before getting into local editing with photoshop. I still manage 90% (or even more) of my processing on Picasa.
Pretty and simple.
There seems to be a little bit of sensor dust but it doesn't really affect it.
I like this.
And the single source lightning is gorgeous.
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