promo shot - musician

[tymczasem]

Hi,

our (SZTK.ORG) first post here - a promo shot for SoQuiet/Gusstaff Records

http://sztk.org/ext/gusstaff04.jpg

photo: Nikon D80, Nikkor lens, sunlight + some reflective surfaces to light the shaded side; processing: combination of 3 RAW conversions, color correction (solid color, selective color and hue/saturation adjustment layers) some smoothing (surface blur) sharpening (high pass and USM)

thanks in advance for Your opinions and advices

[Diego*]

i like it!, love the detail, is he actually leaning on the fence? because the person pops out so much it doesnt look like it to me.

[tymczasem]

Thanks Yes, he is. I think that this photo is a bit overdone - in my opinion it's very important to know when to stop improving and stylizing photo, but often I can't make a decision, and the result is going too far.