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Griffin In Red
Griffin In Red
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Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80s
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2008

Viewed: 535
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 (view)

 This is my son. He is so modely LOL!

We did this outside and the day was veery overcast.

I exposed by metering off his eye to correct exposure. Shot in RAW.

In DPP, converted to jpeg twice. One a half stop brighter and one a half stop darker.

Opened them both in CS3
Ctrl A on underexposure *to select all*
Ctrl C *to copy*
Ctrl V on overexposure *to paste*

closed the underexposed one
Added a layer mask on the top layer and with a black brush set to 19% began to paint my highlights back in. Nose, hands, eyes, cheeks.
When I was happy, I held down the Alt key and clicked merge visible to make a new layer.
Copied that layer up
Dodged irises until they were where I liked them with the brush at 25% set to highlights.
Copied that layer up
Burned selectively around eyes until they were nice.
Merged that layer down
Adjusted opacity until I was happy with the effect and it was not overdone.
Merged that layer down
Copied the newly flattened layers up and used paintbrush set to 19% and overlay.
Selected dark colours around hair and painted them in around the hood and on the eyebrows to bring out and frame the eyes.
Switched to white and painted some highlighting in here and there
Adjusted opacity until I was happy with the effect.
Merged down.
Copied the newly brightened/darkened layer up and used surface blur at 10, 5.
Took opacity to 10% and added a layer mask.
Used soft paintbrush set to normal at 100% and painted back over eyes, edges of nose, and mouth.
Flattened.
New layer from flattened image and healing brush to take out 2 scratches he had on his nose.
Flattened.
New layer from flattened image and went to OptikVerve labs.
Settings were:
-5, 13, cooling filter, soft @ 78
Reduced opacity to 10% and merged down.
New layer from flattened image and gave a strong vignette.
Reduced opacity till I liked it.
Flattened.
Resized.
USM @ 50, .5, 0
History brush set to resize and 100% painted over all but eyes, nose and mouth.
Resized again.
SFW
DONE!!! :)

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Canon EOS-D60
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/08/2008 07:48:52 PM
Oh, he's cute! It looks like he was having fun posing!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 12/07/2008 09:32:13 PM
Looks a bit like Joey Lawrence. Like the pose.
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Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
 12/06/2008 04:18:53 AM
Thanks for posting your processing stuff there is some very helpful info there :) Wicked cool image
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/05/2008 11:34:19 PM
That's quite the job of processing; thanks for the steps and showing the original. I like that vibrant red and how it frames his face.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 12/05/2008 10:34:35 PM
Well, he's gonna grow into a real heartbreaker, that's for sure LOL This is a stunning portrait and his attitude just makes it more powerful. And all that red! Excellent!
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 12/05/2008 07:23:51 PM
Beautiful portrait of your son. The red is great. You have done a great job of editing. Even with so many steps, nothing is overdone. It just all works beautifully.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 12/05/2008 04:41:56 PM
NICE. Loving the red but it might be fun in BW too. Man, you're good about all the steps. I usually save and forget and just go on memory. LOL

It's so easy to take a portrait when you have a gorgeous child. :~) He's a honey.
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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
 12/05/2008 04:00:10 PM
Great capture! Love the composition. I find your processing steps quite intimidating. Inspiring also. Nice work.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
OM System 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO M.Zuiko Digital ED
 12/05/2008 02:23:56 PM
great shot jo jo .. he very photogenic and wot an excellent pose .. i love the processing you've done .. subtle .. :)
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 12/05/2008 01:08:00 PM
I really like the pose and gaze.
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Apple iPhone 5s
 12/05/2008 12:07:33 PM
WOW! Fantastic shot. His attitude really plays well with the red. Thanks for sharing all your steps. It's really interesting to me how someone goes about getting the final result. Could you post the original so we can see the difference?
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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED
 12/05/2008 11:41:12 AM
WOW! I'd be a happy woman if I could ever take such a totally cool portrait :-) Holy cow, love the crop, the lighting is wonderful, all that red is in-your-face fabulous (but not at all overwhelming), the skin tones work so well with that red. And yes, your son is very modely! Thanks so much for posting your processing!!!!!
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