This is my wife and daughter, who took a lot of coaxing before agreeing to pose for my first attempt at portraiture.
(This is going to cost me) :(
Image changed to B/W using channel mixer.
Adjustments to Contrast to get a grainy effect.
USM
"NeatImage" used to give a softening effect.
Some cloning to remove blemishes.
Image cropped and resized and border added.
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Quite a lot of detail is lost due to overexposure, the faces start to loose shape, especially on the right half of the face (their right, left for the viewer)
Interesting. almost looks like a charcoal drawing. Still resembles photography to me, but you are gonna get hammered. I do like the softness of it, especially for a portrait
I just don't get the eroded and blurred lines and the hot lighting. I think the pose and expressions would have made a strong more traditional rendering.
"It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger." - Paul Strand"
This is not a bad composition. I personally don't care much for this exposure/post processing combo.
I'm sure thsi captures the essence of morther and daughter and it makes an "arty" study. I suspect that the way the light has caught the daughter's face produces a distortion of her face shape; her left cheek needs less light (in the bottom right hand, to us, corner) to provide balance.
Oh, this is a great shot but the post processing really hurts it to me ;( The blow out on the left sides of their faces, the noise in the shot, makes it unique but I would score so much higher if a cleaner, better contrasted shot. As is a 6
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