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sbeme

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p.1 #1 · more portraiture help, please

still feel very much the novice here.
I suspect crop should be altered
struggled with color balance on this one
other suggestions..

Natural light only.

Learn me good!!

thx
scott


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Jan 05, 2013 at 02:30 PM

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p.1 #2 · more portraiture help, please

Again, turning a subject's shoulders so they aren't squarish to the camera would be more flattering. For PP, consider a crop, color correction, retouching her teeth, some sharpening, and perhaps some vignette:

For color balance, I added a curves layer and clicked the gray dropper on the wrist watch band. Then I added a Hue/Sat layer and bumped the hue about +12 to reduce the resulting reddish cast.

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Jan 05, 2013 at 05:54 PM

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p.1 #3 · more portraiture help, please

Took a stab at it ...

sbeme wrote:
struggled with color balance on this one

+1 @ struggle ... got the original

I suspect that there is some corner shift going on with the WA @ wo showing up and wreaking some subtle havoc @ neutrals.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1176750/0?keyword=cornerfix#11219409

Jan 05, 2013 at 11:49 PM

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p.1 #4 · more portraiture help, please

Thanks Karen, Kent.
Hard for me to tell color casts but the sand looks better in Karen's rendition. The skin tones and hair are probably most accurate in Kent's.
I complicated and possibly improved matters but doing something new. I used Viveza to selectively warm and cool her/background, creating complex color balance issues.

Scott

Jan 06, 2013 at 02:31 PM

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