They all seem a little dark, and the color is not very consistent. Make sure you're working on a calibrated monitor. I like number 2. 4 is an interesting idea. Makes me think of the movie Memento. In numbers 3 and 6 they just look like buddies hanging out. I don't see a real spark between them. Number 7 doesn't do much for me, if her eyes were open it might have worked. I also wish her eyes were open in 5. I almost like the skin tones in 5 - I think it needs to be a little lighter. The composition isn't bad, though.
Wow. Thanks for the amazingly quick responses. The client asked for something edgy/different, mentioning specifically some tone manipulation. Maybe I pushed it a bit far. At least I can scale tone adjustment back a bit!
First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the feedback. It has been very revealing and constructive. It appears as if I have a bunch of learning ahead of me, especially in terms of image processing.
Atbawrps, I REALLY like what you did with both pics, but am particularly interested in the last one. Mind sharing what you did to make my version look so terrible by comparison? Thanks again everyone and I look forward to bettering myself with your help.
EllisU wrote:
First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the feedback. It has been very revealing and constructive. It appears as if I have a bunch of learning ahead of me, especially in terms of image processing.
Atbawrps, I REALLY like what you did with both pics, but am particularly interested in the last one. Mind sharing what you did to make my version look so terrible by comparison? Thanks again everyone and I look forward to bettering myself with your help.
I did some white balance correction, sharpening, and added a vignette - all done in Photoshop. Literally took me like 3 minutes.
Most of the color fixes with her lying on the bricks can be solved in the blue channel. Open up levels, go to the blue channel and move the middle input slider to the left (to around 1.7), then head to the red channel, and move the right input slider to around 248. Maybe bump the contrast and saturation up a little as well.
Not a bad start. The polaroid looking one, I'd recommend just making the background all black and then PP the polaroid image to look similar to a real polaroid.
