Glamour portrait for practice

[piotrszmidt]

Hello, all This is my first post on this account, but im not new here. I've lost my account password (email address for recovey also changed) - earlier known as Crater.

It been a while from my last presence here but i home you dont mind that.

Im writeing here to ask you a favour. Im in a middle of retouch process on photo from my last photo session, but i think i've stuck a bit with my retouching techniq. I wonder if you could show me a different way to take a look on those photos. In attachment i've put the crop from the photo im working on (and full photo). In the link I put the TIF crop and full NEF.

Hope some of you can show me some good way to take a look on retouch

corped TIF file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4PIDE33

NEF file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQUJ6C02


Here is my previous attempt on that girl:

http://www.studio-colorbox.pl/wp-con...C2498_1024.jpg

Feel free to use this photo in your retouch folio if you want just put my name and website adress.

[piotrszmidt]

anyone, any help ?

[skoobey]

1. BOTTOM LEFT CAMERA CORNER
2. Skin looks quite good, but the hair is another story.
3. It is a quite good image to work on, I might give it a try, yet I am really busy with my own work right now.

P.S. Was taking about the previous attempt.

[piotrszmidt]

thx, skoobey, i will put my version as soon as i will finished it

[Agustin]

Hi Piotrszmidt, I'm interest in to do something.
If you have any more pictures (full body) it will be interesting to me too.

[piotrszmidt]

im sorry but that was only portrait session for beauty and glamour, but maybe i could create gallery with previews and you will choose some of them

[Agustin]

That will be great!
Thank you

[piotrszmidt]

Originally Posted by skoobey

1. BOTTOM LEFT CAMERA CORNER
2. Skin looks quite good, but the hair is another story.
3. It is a quite good image to work on, I might give it a try, yet I am really busy with my own work right now.

P.S. I Was taking about the previous attempt.

Yeap, i fortot to crop it for the liquify ;P

[zeeakawanted]

Hello Piotr!

This is my attempt which I happen to be veeery proud of: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5603/dsc2709small.jpg

GREAT PHOTO, btw - my compliments!

P.S. If you want an original image resolution PSD copy, feel free to send me PM.

[gonzaloquintas]

Thanks for the change to test me!
I'll give it a shot. Hopefully, you will have news from me soon.

Regards,
Gonzalo.-

[piotrszmidt]

zeeakawanted - very nice retouch. i wonder how you made a hair cleaning?

I also finished my version: http://www.studio-colorbox.pl/wp-con...C2709_1024.jpg

[Agustin]

Hi Piotrszmidt, I would like to show my version
Hope you like it

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/2...mparativam.jpg

and a hair detail...

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7...etallepelo.jpg

Thanks to share your photo

[piotrszmidt]

Hey Agustin very nice, good work :P Maybe im a bit serious to much but this is what i think of your retouch:

+ very nice bacgroudn - cool way of thinking
+ lashes - the white (highlights?) on the eyelashes - my makeup artist named that for me one day but i forgot it. Preaty nice.
+ nicle you have done the work with those single hairs, but my private vision was to make the hairs in one line - hard to explain (look on my previe of the other image from the session in my first post)

-skin looks to blury for me (maybe it's the effect of color layer for the ink/cross-process coloryzation of the photo)
-nicley changed makeup, but something looks wrong in the eye area. The are to bright (circles around the eye) and it makes it look a bid nasty - like a dead man skull.

other: i thought you will take a crop form image, but its ok. Privatley i just don't like the model body possition on that single frame

But one more time - THANK YOU fot the affort

[Agustin]

Hi again! thank you for you feedback it's very appreciate.
About the skin is because I have 2 layer adds for ink color, but any way is more my artistic vision and I understand your comment .
The eyes have more light ( I try to do a different aspect to the face) but I think you have a really very good eyes for details
About the hair, I'm not destroyed little hairs details in the head, face and arm, I think is better integration with the background, any way I understand you and I hope you can appreciate my effort.
For last as same as you, I change de Teeth.
Thank you for let my try with your work
Sorry if my english isn't enough good.
Regards

[Agustin]

Sorry one thing more, have you notice the hairdo isn't exactly the same version as original? I am not talking about single hairs...
Regards

[piotrszmidt]

Originally Posted by Agustin

Sorry one thing more, have you notice the hairdo isn't exactly the same version as original? I am not talking about single hairs...
Regards

just now, when you write it down you mean the hairs in the bottom of the ear correct?

[Agustin]

Yes! but is not all...

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4...tallepelo2.jpg