Recently I was shooting a fitness assignment in Conn. and decided to use the 135L (which I just purchased a few weeks ago) while backstage and ran into Lindsay Messina, the new cover for underarmour. Going thru the photos it was extremely obvious which ones were the 135L and the 70-200L IS. I think I am going to sell the 70-200.
Anyways, I caught a few candids of Lindsay.
30D 135L f/4 1/60s ISO400, no PP, just resized for web.
Very nice image. Great expression captured. A tad bright on the teeth I feel. Were you able to handheld this at 1/60th? It does look sharp at this size. Good job.
Lovely shot. I noticed a few things that might make this shot even better. 1) her pupils are large, next time have more light in the room while shooting. 2) Here eyes in general are dark... some more light would help or even some work in PhotoShop™. 3) the skin tone looks very red on my calibrated monitor.
With your permission I would love to show you a retouched version.
NIce shot, but the dark eye sockets and whites of the eyes are a result of using bounce flash: the brow shades the eye sockets.
Instead of using the dodging tool dupe the background, set mode to screen, add a mask filled with black, then selectively erase the mask to lighten the eye area..
Chuck
Edited by cgardner on May 09, 2008 at 06:33 PM GMT
Chuck,
Thanks for the critique. You sent me an excellent PP, please feel free to post it. It's an excellent demonstration of the technique you described.
MarnixdS wrote:
Very nice image. Great expression captured. A tad bright on the teeth I feel. Were you able to handheld this at 1/60th? It does look sharp at this size. Good job.
Marnix
Yes hand held. It was so dark, the only thing you see is what is exposed by the flash. Flash duration is so short, shutter speed is not a factor.
M Vers wrote: went to High School with her.
Hudson Valley?
Book her now while her rates are still reasonable. From her performance at the competition and the recent gigs she has done, her fitness career is about to explode.
Mark McCardell wrote:
Chuck,
Thanks for the critique. You sent me an excellent PP, please feel free to post it. It's an excellent demonstration of the technique you described.
Dupe background
Change mode to screen
Add black mask (Alt+click the [0] mask icon on bottom of the layers window)
Erase mask
Adjust opacity slider as needed to fine tune.
The same thing can be done with an adjustment layer:
Create a Levels adjustment layer but make no changes
Change mode to screen
Edit the mask on the adjustment layer to fill it with black
Erase the mask.
Book her now while her rates are still reasonable. From her performance at the competition and the recent gigs she has done, her fitness career is about to explode.
Yes sir. Good ol' Washingtonville HS. If I may ask, merely out of pure curiosity, what are her current rates?
As for the image (Chucks PP) I feel as though areas such as the nose ridge, cheeks and forehead are a tad too hot, though the eyes have benefited from the additional tweaks. I also feel that you may want to smooth out the skin beneath and above the eyes...although altering the models appearance is entirely up to you, some do so, others do not.
Nice work Britt...Livened up the hair, brought out the eyes and killed the wrinkles and the red/orange skin tone, Highlights look very well controlled as well.
went to High School with her.