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Mother and Daughter
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I’m not sure about this one.
I’d appreiciate some feedback and some second opinions.thanks folks
Big improvement Graham. The boost in light and contrast has
lifted this image dramatically. Very well composed, and well
posed too with the daughter engaging the camera while the mother
is occupied only with her child. Very appealing indeed. I’d say
you have two happy customers there. Nicely done.Rob.
Edit: Just seen Ross’s edit. Very very nice work.
Thanks Rob, the subjects are actually family members
and believe it or not but this was the first proper photo
taken solely of the two of them. I like the way brandyman
enhanced the imageAll I did was a levels adjustment, moving the ‘white’ slider in from the right hand side. I then applied a gaussian blur to the extremes of the picture, cropped it, and then a curves adjustment to brighten more. Frame with white border. Voila. Took 2 minutes or less.
Ross
Here is a slightly different version, with less gaussian blur, and a bit more work on the eyes of the girl.
Ross
Thought I’d have a go at this one…top one being the original and second being the redo…
Just converted to LAB…then to grayscale than RGB, fixed levels, slight healing, added some contrast, and did a double gaussian layer diffuse on it to give it a little soft focus to it.
I am truely delighted to see the amount of work people are putting
into this picture.Thanks Guys
Wow!! Just goes to show what we novices are missing sometimes. The original shot was great, but obviously the editing needed something more and boy did it get it. I think Ross’ second edit is the nicest imo. It has really brought out the full potential of the shot and to me anyway it now looks like a truly class portait shot that anyone would be happy with. It just shows that sometimes as a novice you can have a really great image and miss it’s true potential. I think the lesson is that we really do need to get to grips with whatever photo editing package we use.
Well done Graham :D
Robbie
8)Oh..one other quick comment. It really helps as well when you’re looking at an embedded image on the page and not a thumbnail link to that Las Vegas Casino pic hosting place… :wink: Sorry…couldn’t help getting that one in… :lol:
Thanks Robbie.
I totally agree with your point about us novices can miss things at time.
With this particular shoot I must have taken around 200 shots in total and
instantly disregarded dozens of them. Luckily though I never delete any image
no matter how blurred or dark or crap.
Taking advice from this thread I went back through the images I moved to my scrap folder
and recovered a huge chunk of them.
My portfolio has really improved based purely on the brilliant advice I was given in this thread.Thanks to everyone for their edits and advice. It really is appreiciate.
If we ever meet face to face the pints are on me
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