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    A simple portrait of a young woman

    Natural light, no reflectors, nothing special.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Nice shot.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowman View Post
    Nice shot.
    John, that is too short as a comment !
    Thank you anyway. Have a nice week end !

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by Antonio Correia View Post
    John, that is too short as a comment !
    Thank you anyway. Have a nice week end !
    Antonio,

    Were you expecting more, your description suggested the shot either didn't mean that much to you or you were confident in the quality of the result.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowman View Post
    Antonio,

    Were you expecting more, your description suggested the shot either didn't mean that much to you or you were confident in the quality of the result.
    I am a liar !
    I do like the portrait very much ! Clean, sharp and with a glimpse of beautiful bokeh.
    Going to print it in baryta paper and offer it to the young woman.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Antonio - I have three issues with your portrait:

    1. A bit of a cyan colour cast on my screen;

    2. The bright highlights along the top of the frame are distracting (and challenging to deal with); and

    3. I don't like the gap without her shirt along the left hand side.

    I'd probably do something along these lines...

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Thank you Manfred for your constructive comment.

    This was shot in a park, in open air. I was aware that the background was/is important and I do have asked her to move to a place where it would not be so distracting. the result is not the best, indeed...

    I have however to admit that the white areas above her head are very hard to fix. Well, for me that is.
    When taking her picture I fixed a little of her shirt but not enough perhaps. I wouldn't like to touch it.

    On the other hand I am not interested in a much too perfect portrait. I am a pixel peeper - or I tend to be more and more - and that is something I want to run away from, as much as I can. Contradictory, isn't it ?

    About the magenta I can't tell you if you are wrong on not. In my monitor - calibrated - it looks OK. When I will print it I will see the final result and make adicional adjustments if necessary.

    Thank you Manfred !
    Have a nice week end !
    Cheers !

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by Antonio Correia View Post
    About the magenta I can't tell you if you are wrong on not. In my monitor - calibrated - it looks OK. When I will print it I will see the final result and make adicional adjustments if necessary
    Actually, I said the issue was a cyan cast, i.e the red channel.

    I am viewing your image on my calibrated and profiled sRGB and Adobe RGB compliant screen.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    I agree that this did appear a bit on the cyan side and I also like the tighter crop.

    However, this lady's expression is really warm and natural, which is sometimes difficult to achieve when shooting a non-professional model...

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by Manfred M View Post
    Actually, I said the issue was a cyan cast, i.e the red channel.
    At first, I was puzzled by the reference to the red channel, what with red being opposite cyan in most color circles, e.g. HSL. However, a quick open in RT showed that the T-shirt was indeed lacking in red - hence a cyan cast.

    By golly, a quick poke with the WB color-picker fixed that right away:

    A simple portrait of a young woman

    Amazing what improvement was gained with just one 16px-square click on the right shoulder. Skin, eyes - and even the 'Mickey Mouse' highlights!
    Last edited by xpatUSA; 2nd June 2019 at 04:43 AM.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    At first, I was puzzled by the reference to the red channel, what with red being opposite cyan in most color circles
    Basic colour theory Ted:

    Too much cyan -> remove cyan = add red;
    Too much magenta => remove magenta = add green; and
    Too much yellow => remove yellow = add blue.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    I love this portrait. (the edits from Ted improve it, adding some color and sharpness).
    She looks natural, love that she has "texture" in her skin and her smile is warm and inviting.
    Nicely done!

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Thank you for the comments, everybody ! You are terrific !
    As correctly suggested I worked a bit and came to this result.
    I can now clearly see how wrong I was !
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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by lovelife65 View Post
    I love this portrait. (the edits from Ted improve it, adding some color and sharpness).
    She looks natural, love that she has "texture" in her skin and her smile is warm and inviting.
    Nicely done!
    Thank you Sharon. Just so's we're clear, all I did was a single click on the white fabric to set the color balance. No other edits, such as adding color, sharpening, etc. were done.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    Thank you Sharon. Just so's we're clear, all I did was a single click on the white fabric to set the color balance. No other edits, such as adding color, sharpening, etc. were done.

    I knew that, but it has improved the image for sure.. and maybe that is all that is needed. I think resetting the color balance did indeed improve the colors.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Beautiful portrait! It is helpful that I can look at someone else's work and gain an education by reading the analysis and suggestions.
    Thanks Antonio for posting this. This is truly a learning site.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    Thank you Sharon. Just so's we're clear, all I did was a single click on the white fabric to set the color balance. No other edits, such as adding color, sharpening, etc. were done.
    The method works well, so long as you click on the "right spot". I do use it fairly often, but one has to click in different places to find one that works well. Even then, I find I often do a tiny bit of tweaking of the colour channel. I find Antoinio's latest version just a touch too yellow for my taste and might push the blues up a tiny bit.

    Laundry detergents often contain optical bleaching agents that fluoresce blue under sunlight, so this slight push to yellow is not unexpected if the colour sample is taken from clothing.
    Last edited by Manfred M; 2nd June 2019 at 04:46 PM.

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by joebranko View Post
    ...This is truly a learning site.
    Oh yes it is !

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    I just realized something after looking at this image for a long time. It could also be a smashing B&W image...

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    Re: A simple portrait of a young woman

    Quote Originally Posted by rpcrowe View Post
    I just realized something after looking at this image for a long time. It could also be a smashing B&W image...
    Richard... no.

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