Critiques - - creative retouch

rutherford · #1 08-22-2005, 01:00 PM

Hi everyone,

this is a job I have just finished. It consisted of the following:

- Put the mouth of the left photo on the right photo

- illustrate the hair with the model's own hair and the wig pictured on the top right. Later there will be some vector illustrations placed on top of it.

- retouch the image to whitten the teeth and eyes, even the tone of the hair - tending to a reddish cast - place the model on a violet background and convert the image to CMYK for offset printing.

The originals (4X5" chromes) were scanned on an imacon drum scanner

cheers!

George Rutherford
www.seagullsfly.com
www.fotolog.net/rutherford

Kraellin · #2 08-23-2005, 01:33 PM

so, was there a question or request or something here, rutherford?

Craig

rutherford · #3 08-23-2005, 01:37 PM

Hi Craig,

I just wanted to hear opinions and suggestions about it.

Cheers!

George

Kraellin · #4 08-23-2005, 03:04 PM

ah, ok.

well, i'm a little confused here. what's the 'final' picture we're critiquing here? the one on the left looks like the final, but you say you moved the mouth from the left to the right, so i'm not sure which image to critue.

Craig

maureeno · #5 08-23-2005, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

ah, ok.

well, i'm a little confused here. what's the 'final' picture we're critiquing here? the one on the left looks like the final, but you say you moved the mouth from the left to the right, so i'm not sure which image to critue.

Craig

Craig, I think the left mouth to be transferred to the right mouth is on the right image with the 4 shots in it.

I see the final image as the one with the purple background, which looks terrific, in my view.

Maureen

maureeno · #6 08-23-2005, 03:28 PM

Rutherford, your work is fabulous in concept and skill. Personally, I don't go for purple backgrounds, but that's just me.

As a matter of fact, I'm going to have a go at that concept myself! After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? If I pull it off, I'll post it.

Maureen

PS: Where did you find the hair?

Kraellin · #7 08-23-2005, 03:57 PM

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Craig, I think the left mouth to be transferred to the right mouth is on the right image with the 4 shots in it.

ah, ok. thanks maureen

rutherford · #8 08-23-2005, 06:25 PM

the four shots on the right were used to compose the final shot. i agree with you on the purple background, but it was a clients choice. the hair is made with the shot of the models own hair with some parts of the wig added to incrrease volume.

maureeno · #9 08-23-2005, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by rutherford

the four shots on the right were used to compose the final shot. i agree with you on the purple background, but it was a clients choice. the hair is made with the shot of the models own hair with some parts of the wig added to incrrease volume.

Oh, I've had a client who insisted on an effect that was just awful (in my view), yet he wanted it no matter what!

What I meant about "where did you get the hair?" is that spead of hair you have laid out on your source board, the hair you added to your model's hair.

Maureen

rutherford · #10 08-24-2005, 11:25 AM

hi maureen,

that hair is a wig provided by the producer of the photo session. I used some parts of it on the bottom part of the model's hair.

cheers,

george

Duv · #11 08-24-2005, 09:35 PM

I have less of a problem with the background as I do with the general construction. I'm probably more pragmatic than artistic so I think the hair needs some motion blur in it's current configuration or change the hairfall to vertical..which probably needs to be considered with the original shot.

Cheers
Dave

rutherford · #12 08-26-2005, 08:56 AM

Hi Dave,

i agree with you when we look to the image through a realistic point of view, but in this specific case, the client wanted the hair in that position and without motion blur in order to place some vector illustrations on top of it.

Cheers,

George Rutherford