Faces of Pushkar India #4, C&C Most Welcome

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

Recently, I have started processing the project which i took last year "Faces of Pushkar, India". She is 13 year old girl from Rajasthan, India.

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended)

[Manfred M]

Another beautiful portrait, Raj.

Again a few minor things I would do differently than you have.

1. There is a tiny bright spot where her finger and chin meet. I would clone that out.

2. I'd probably set the white point a bit more to the left. The image is a tiny bit more muddy that I would like it.

3. I find that the light hitting the model's hand is a bit brighter than I like it and I would burn that in a bit to remove that minor distraction.

4. A bit of dodging and burning, especially the eyes and the lips to give them a bit more "pop".

5. Finally, as this image is getting towards the glamour look, just cleaning up her skin a touch.

[fotugraphy]

Another beautiful portrait, Raj.

Again a few minor things I would do differently than you have.

1. There is a tiny bright spot where her finger and chin meet. I would clone that out.

2. I'd probably set the white point a bit more to the left. The image is a tiny bit more muddy that I would like it.

3. I find that the light hitting the model's hand is a bit brighter than I like it and I would burn that in a bit to remove that minor distraction.

4. A bit of dodging and burning, especially the eyes and the lips to give them a bit more "pop".

5. Finally, as this image is getting towards the glamour look, just cleaning up her skin a touch.

Wow. It is looking fantastic now. Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion If possible can you please suggest which plugin you used for skin? or you did manually (Please share the workflow if possible)

[rpcrowe]

This try at PP doesn't make the young lady quite as glamorous. Rather it retains a lot of the grittiness of her complexion but, does smooth it out a bit...


This was a thirty-second edit with NIK Viveza. I placed a control point on her face below her left eye and extended the control circle to encompass the entire face. Then I placed control points on each eye so the smoothing of her face would not extend into he eyes. Selecting the control point under her eye, I drastically reduced the structure slider. I then selected the control points I had placed on her eyes and increased the brightness and structure...

[Manfred M]

Wow. It is looking fantastic now. Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion If possible can you please suggest which plugin you used for skin? or you did manually (Please share the workflow if possible)

For quick edits like I did here, I use the Imagenomic Portraiture plugin. It's almost as good as doing it by hand and takes no time at all. It is not inexpensive, but works very well.

http://imagenomic.com/portraiture.aspx

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[fotugraphy]

This try at PP doesn't make the young lady quite as glamorous. Rather it retains a lot of the grittiness of her complexion but, does smooth it out a bit...


This was a thirty-second edit with NIK Viveza. I placed a control point on her face below her left eye and extended the control circle to encompass the entire face. Then I placed control points on each eye so the smoothing of her face would not extend into he eyes. Selecting the control point under her eye, I drastically reduced the structure slider. I then selected the control points I had placed on her eyes and increased the brightness and structure...

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

For quick edits like I did here, I use the Imagenomic Portraiture plugin. It's almost as good as doing it by hand and takes no time at all. It is not inexpensive, but works very well.

http://imagenomic.com/portraiture.aspx

Thanks a lot for sharing

[fotugraphy]

Nicely done.

Thanks a lot for your kind appreciation.