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dolphin2406
Junior Member
Registered: July 2009
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Wow, well done this is fantastic. Great Job! wish I could do that to my photos. Still trying to learn 
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Cosmos
Junior Member
Registered: July 2009
Posts: 2
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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jcalandr
Junior Member
Registered: December 2002
Location: Palmetto, Florida
Posts: 15
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As said above "Awesome"
Would you share as to how you sculptured her face?
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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Thanks for the compliment. Very much appreciated.
I sculpted her face (left cheekbone) using dodge and burn, her right cheekbone with liquify. I rounded it out to make it a bit higher. I had a little trouble getting her left cheek and jawline to look just right to me, so as you may have noticed, I lost a bit of the skin texture around the jaw. I changed her mouth primarily because, to me, it looked like she didn't want to be photographed at that time, and appeared a little annoyed. I borrowed her left ear and hair is Angelina Jolie's.
Any more questions, just ask, Rob
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Byakuya
Junior Member
Registered: October 2009
Posts: 7
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LOVE this. SOOO sophisitcated
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CanonGirl
Junior Member
Registered: April 2010
Posts: 4
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The eyes are the best out there thus far. The dark hair is DOPE!
The lips were too sharp and look fake. They needed to be a smidge more feathered, and the color is too purple.
No womans lips are that pointy. They are borderline jokerish or trout pout (Meg Ryan or Joan Rivers - but just in the corners though)!! Perhaps smooth them a teeny bit.
Eye Shadow is PERFECT and matches the blush nicely. Very natural. And, the highlighting is really nice.
Everything else looks pretty damn good!!!
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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Thank you CanonGirl!!!! I wish for someone like you to come into my life daily. I have absolutely no one with a qualified eye to critique my work, so I feel undirected. You are the first to make a constructive comment in the 4-1/2 years I've been doing this. Everyone I've done work for, or have shown my work to, think my work is amazing, but they are not professionals. So thank you again..
Rob...roblloyd35@aol.com
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beyondyoda
Junior Member
Registered: August 2010
Posts: 2
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I think it looks way over photoshopped. It is an excellent job but imho very overworked.
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carloslorenzo
Junior Member
Registered: December 2010
Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Interesting approach. I'm new here and don't know how it works but from all the versions I choose yours. There's something about the expression now that makes her more defiant, kind of hot girl. Maybe because of the jaw and the lips but I like the skin treatment.
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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Thank you Carlos. I hated her expression. It looked, to me as if she didn't want the picture taken, and was a little annoyed. I love beauty, and didn't stop until she was beautiful. A little overdone perhaps, but I'm a Scorpio. We tend to do things to an extreme...
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sirrduke2010
Member
Registered: November 2010
Posts: 41
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You know Carlos and everybody else. I know that my photoshop work doesn't come close to most everybody here but if you are doing portrait work you know that if the expression is bad the image is tossed. For those that were able to fix this great but the reality is that any professional photographer that specializes in portrait would of tossed this image before he even worked on it. I think for practice this was a good challenge but for reality this image should have never made it to the editing table. It is extremely tough to fix an expression. It is like asking a math person to do Calculus. He may be adept at math but if he isn't extremely advanced he will have a hard time.
One other thought you might want to rate the level of editing jobs you are giving as challenges. Easy, hard, very hard, difficult, and extremely difficult. I would have rated this extremely difficult because of that expression.
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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Thanks for the feedback Sirr. I love it. You're absolutely right, I would never have chosen this photo from a photographers point of view, but I didn't post it. It was not my initial intention to change her expression, I just didn't like her mouth. When I changed it, along with her eyebrows, to me, her expression seemed to have changed for the better. Just a personal observation. I worked on this photo simply for the exercise/challenge. I guess you think I flunked huh. That's OK, I still appreciate all comments. Can't grow without them.
Thanks again, Rob
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boshemie
Junior Member
Registered: January 2011
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I think from a distance this one looks great, considering the photo we had to work with you did a remarkable job...the skin was so hard to work with. That being said I would like to see what it would look like if you toned it down a bit - is this the amount of retouching you would apply to all photos, or was it just that this particular photo did not lend itself to a realistic approach? I'd be interested to know. This feels less like a retouched photo and more like a piece of digital art with the original photo as a base.
I like a much more realistic approach to retouching
anyway, it is great work, just not necessarily what I think a client would expect from a portrait retouching.
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Roblloyd35
Junior Member
Registered: June 2009
Location: Greenwich Village, New York City
Posts: 3
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I would never do this to a clients portrait, because I found this photo unacceptable to use as a portrait. Maybe if it were to be used for a theatrical purpose, I would then just adjust color and exposure. Yes it was done to death, but I had no instruction except "do what you want", so I did. I changed the nose and the cheekbones. That would require surgery. Real client portraits MUST look like the client. I want viewers to say, "what a great photograph", not "who is that"! It also depends on what the client wants. If a client doesn't want retouching, I still do it, but so subtly, they just think I'm a great photographer. If you'd like to see examples of my work, let me know...Rob
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