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05-25-2008, 01:03 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sweden
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| | | My portrait to share Hi everybody 
This is my second after "meet me" thread..
You are doing here great jobs!! I'm new in photography as well as in retouching  so I want to share one of my portraits in raw format to practice and also learn from you how to improve it (I'm only starting to learn little bit). It is "oversunny" a bit and has bad shadow on the left eye.
here is link to download raw file http://rapidshare.com/files/117569436/IMG_1324.CR2.html
Looking forward for your work | 
05-25-2008, 09:10 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Myrtle Beach, SC USA
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| | | Re: My portrait to share Beautiful model skauskas.
I did the bw conversion in raw. Fixed some blemishes in photoshop. converted to a quadtone. Don't laugh, my first try at a tat. | 
05-26-2008, 01:28 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share Ilona, I think for starting out you are doing very good..
Judging from just this one photo, you seem to have an artistic eye toward composition
Just remember that even even when you are outdoors in the bright sunlight... lighting is very important and needs to be set up properly, at the minimum using some type of fill for good results.
My really quick cleanup of just the face of the model
Last edited by 0lBaldy; 05-26-2008 at 01:34 AM.
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05-26-2008, 04:02 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share Here is my quick try | 
05-26-2008, 04:03 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share So we can help you better. Please post an edit you did to the photo. So we can look at your editing and give advise | 
05-26-2008, 06:55 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share thank you very much for your words! means sooo much to me..
Ok.. I started retouching a bit.. I did D&B on her face, cleaned upp the skin, did some healing and patching but then I stuck and don't know how make her skin color great.. she is so pale!
crazyfly1 I like bw tattoo style.. she is not that kind of person but she is gonna like it 100%!
Here is what I've done | 
05-26-2008, 12:33 PM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share Did a vertical crop after straightening..
additional cloning to fill in the blanks..
Still needs work but shows other things that could be done | 
05-26-2008, 03:31 PM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share quick one from me | 
05-27-2008, 08:15 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share 0lBaldy what techniques you used in your second variant except cloning? | 
05-27-2008, 10:39 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share The second variant is just a crop of the first.. and as stated there were some blank spaces after the crop where I had fill in the corners with the clone tool..
Good model, good skin, good photography makes things very simple. The tools used in totality were very basic. Healing Brush, Patch Tool, History brush (Screen and Multiply on lips and eyes), clone tool, coupled with extensive use of Fade (Shift+Ctrl+F) (especially over and under the eyes after the healing brush) was all I used | 
05-27-2008, 03:34 PM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share thank you 0lBaldy.. the eye area was particularly interesting because you still left the shadow but it's not strong like was before.. now need to check through the website how to correct the color of the skin | 
06-03-2008, 09:14 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share Thanks for the photo!
I will post my version soon. But it will take some time.
I want to do a good job!
Last edited by Kavou; 06-03-2008 at 09:30 AM.
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06-03-2008, 10:54 AM
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| | | Re: My portrait to share I would love to see what you've done! Take as much time as you need | 
06-05-2008, 06:42 PM
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| | Re: My portrait to share Lovely Shoot, thanks for sharing it. This was my take. |
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