Creative Portraits: Subtle Expressions by Dana Lane

DannyRaphael · #1 07-23-2007, 06:57 PM

Image for this thread: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=48362&d=1184959699

...graciously approved for artification by photographer,

Dana Lane
dalphoto@comcast.net
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalphot...7600120184539/

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Great shot, Dana. Thanks for permitting its use as an outlet for our creative energy.

DannyRaphael · #2 07-23-2007, 11:31 PM

The general approach using Photoshop 7
* Smart Blur - to simplify a bit
* Levels - to emphasize contrast
* Insane amounts of Unsharp Mask to distort colors
* Impressionist plugin for the arty look
* Stylize > Emboss for some simulated depth
* Curves and Hue/Sat adjustments

dalphoto · #3 07-24-2007, 07:24 AM

Danny,

I like what you did with this.

Alcar · #4 07-24-2007, 08:00 AM

Danny, you've inspire me to take a crack at this fine photo.
Alan

Steve Conway · #5 07-24-2007, 08:20 AM

Lovely lady.

Steve C.

Gilbert · #6 07-24-2007, 08:22 AM

been a while since we had a good looking gal.......
levels, painter, Photoshop lighting a bit overdone

DannyRaphael · #7 07-24-2007, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilbert

been a while since we had a good looking gal.......
levels, painter, Photoshop lighting a bit overdone

Outstanding job on this one. A home run for sure. If you're not doing this type of thing commercially, you should seriously consider doing so.

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Alan: Glad to return the inspiration favor.

The way you cropped and manipulated the size/shape of her face is quite creative.

Cassidy · #8 07-24-2007, 10:25 AM

This lass looks lovely in a Cross Hatch Filter

Swampy · #9 07-24-2007, 10:49 AM

Great photo, Danny. I'm not real good at portraits, but I wanted to have a go at this lovely woman. Tried to give her an "old world" feel.

I really played with this, but used the lighness channel from LAB as an overlay set to screen mode and adjusted the opacity. Saved as TIFF and took it into Painter to paint with an oil bristle brush. Soft cloner to bring back eye detail. Back to Photoshop for some tweeking

Steve Conway · #10 07-24-2007, 11:20 AM

Here are a sketch and a more radical rendition.

Steve C.

dalphoto · #11 07-24-2007, 11:21 AM

Gilbert, I really like the way you handled this one. I'm in the process of batching up my shoot to send her some shots, can I send that to her as well, I think she'd like it very much (credited of course!)?

LQQKER · #12 07-24-2007, 11:26 AM

Very nice capture.

I realize this isn't very painterly and some may question if it's actually photoart.
Filters used were Nik, Redfield AE and amphisoft along with typical photoshop filters (contrast adj, hue & sat, color adj, layer styles, etc)

Gilbert · #13 07-24-2007, 11:36 AM

Danny.....your comments greatly appreciated
Dana.....be my guest

palms1 · #14 07-24-2007, 11:52 AM

Lovely photo thanks to Dana for letting us "mess around" with it

i played with filters on the first one, then noted everyone was doing paintings so attempted a ahb as well

Palms

pavel123 · #15 07-24-2007, 02:53 PM

Dana, thank you for the photo.

Photoshop/Painter.