Jenny

[Alison]

50mm 1.8 lens, RAW format, Manual mode, f/3.5, SS 1/100, ISO 100

Decided a sepia effect would suit the cowgirl look.

Rotated and cropped.
Duplicated my layer, added a supermooth filter in xero and then erased her hair, eyes, tip of her nose, lips and clothing back to their original sharpness.
Sharpened and dodged her eyes a little.

I love it! What do you think?

[yogestee]

Another keeper Alison..Great soft lighing and good skin tones...I like the tilt of Jenny's head and the soft back ground....BUT,,there is always a but...I would have liked to see a bit of detail in Jenny's hat..its a bit burnt out..

Otherwise,,good stuff

Jurgen
Australia

[cyberlord]

I've toyed with glamour tecniques for the experience with my daughter also (she's my only willing model) and I found the effects to be un-natural looking for younger models. It makes the eyes look weird. I find if any smoothing is to be done make it very subtle.

You said you dodged her eyes, I think one ended up brighter than the other and doesn't match the light of the surrounding skin. Use a reflector to get light under the hat instead of post processing in PS or what have you.

Over all I like the photo very much other than the above. The pose is nice. Only thing I would do is crop out the dark background or go high key, but thats me, I like full frame headshots. If you prefer a dark background for framing then it should be blurred a little more.

Good job!

This is an area I am weak in but without willing models it's tough to experiment.

Tim

[Alison]

Is the eye any better now? Or should I go a little darker?

[cyberlord]

Is the eye any better now? Or should I go a little darker?

I think you could get away with it at like this. I still notice it, but I think if I hadn't seen the original photo and saw this first it wouldn't be noticible.

Somtimes I'm too hyper-critical even more so for my own work.

Good to see you working PS, I like working/experimenting in PS as much as I do capturing the original image. I did learn something in PS this morning. I had never used the measure tool before and played hide-and-go-seek for it this morning.

Tim

[jar_e]

Tim brought up a good point about the eyes. That's the only thing I was going to mention! Great shot!