Moody Blues

[Irish]

Playing in photoshop after a photo shoot - trying to come up with an image along the theme of "moody blues".........

INDIGO GIRL......


Comments, critique and reworks welcome....

Cheers
Andy S...

[DocH]

Hmmm.... Hard one, it doesn't quite work for me. I think to me your subjects face has too much intensity and strength in it for the calming blue colour. Dunno... I think it would look fine in B&W. Beautiful framing and I like the near pencile drawing frailty of the treatment.

Greg

[mtbbrian]

I posted a comment in the galleries, but I'll go ahead and do it again here..

I think this is a successful photograph.
I like the coloring! It creates a rather sensual mood.
I think the pose works too.
Burning in the hair, just a little might help.
Brian

[Robert Ward]

This is a beautiful image, one for the wall. She is a beautiful woman too and you you could do anything to this pic and it would still be great.Well done.
Bobby

[Lara]

This is very different. I love it. Nice PS work! I wonder if you could elaborate on the PS work. I am very interested in the style.

[Chunk]

This is a very beautiful picture that stands out from the bunch. A nice high key feel. The higher contrast around the eyes and mouth really make them grab the attention. The colorization is well done.

I meant to come back and comment on this after viewing it when it first appeared but the onslaught of posts moved it past my attention quickly...sorry.

[Irish]

Thanks for the positive comments and critique from all.

Doc I tried a version in b&w and liked it..... but the comp calls for "moody blue" so had to go with the blue. I think the intensity of the eyes are a little too much but other than that I am pleased witht he result.

I was having a little computer trouble so did not get back and missed my image as a featured photo - darn

Lara here is the original only little USM applied



I was trying my 100mm macro for portraits and had my white balance set to shade hence the colour cast. Anyway here are the post processing steps I used on this image to get Indgo Girl....(this time I wrote the process down )

* cloned out unwanted background
* selected colour of blue #325296
* applied a gradient map
* saturated to +60
* dodged & burned the eyes
* erase some shadow on chin area at 4% opacity
*applied USM 60/2/0

Hope that helps

Cheers
Andy S.......

[PhotoSapien]

Very very cool! I love her eyes! I definitly prefer the blue. How did you go about doing this one?
PhotoSapien

[Lara]

The original is great, and the post process is stunning. Thank you for posting the original, so I could see what you were working with! I appreciate that.