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Shelby Lewis
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Edward... nice stuff... you really know how to get detail out of the 100 macro. The color is especially nice (and neutral) as well.
Fine stuff!
Fine stuff!
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If you look closer, you will be able to see an A900 and 100mm macro :ROTFL:I see a soft box and reflector in the purple jewel.
Thanks... last one is EASILY my favorite. Kinda has that fashion magazine vibe going on.Shelby - she is quite photogenic and you did a great job. I may be in the minority but I like the last one the best. :clap:
Thanks a bunch. I often add noise to my photographs to give them more texture... ie #4.Lovely work Shelby, you seem to have found your groove very quickly with this setup. I like 4 the best also, seems like there is a texture to it. The 2nd shot is also interesting, I like the muted colours.:thumbup:
Yep... standard "beauty" retouching... and when downsized for web, retouched skin always gets too smooth for my taste. I did use Imagenomic's Portraiture plug-in to create a smooth skin mask on a separate layer... then added a smidge of noise to keep it from looking too plastic (although I think it still does... need to back it off a bit)... plus the usual dodge and burn as well as a bit of cloning/healing. Nothing to the eyes and lips yet.
The skin was the only thing smoothed... the background is all zeiss
The thing I like most about portraiture is it can create a smoothed mask of just the skin on a separate layer... in beauty retouching you often keep a retouched, but not smoothed, version of the skin on another layer. Later on after smoothing the hell out of the "smooth skin" layer, you then bring back the original textured skin layer often by using the high-pass filter in linear light layer mode to create a texture map of sorts (just on the skin). Some people will use use the noise tool. The smoothing layer is more for color uniformity than for smoothness.I assume that this plug-in helps speed up alot of the standard photoshop skin retouching
workflow and very useful if you are retouching alot of pictures for a shoot.
Interesting about the downsizing for web making the skin look even more plastic.
Does any plug-in provide some sort of standard uniform skin texture which you could blend-in after the blurring to get rid off the plastic look without using noise to texture it?
A recent cover of Vogue had some famous supermodels on front and the skin texture after blurring looked very nice and not plastic.
Color on the siggy is great... not really yellow like some of the older lenses were. Of course, the a900 handles yellows and greens so well, it may be less noticeable on it. I can say, though, that the focus accuracy on the zeiss at ANY distance is stunning... not so on the siggy. It shifts (or my copy does) to the back at longer distance... but is great inside 10 feet or so.BTW, like your recent wedding shots, looks like the CZ135 and Siggy 50 are a great combo along with CZ 24-70. How do you find the Siggy 50 colors compared to your CZ lens colors? Not as saturated?
Thanks!Superb Shelby, Did you use your CZ-135mm wide open for some of these?
Steven
Yes, that is a Beluga Whale and no, they don't make caviar from it.:lecture: Beluga whale if I'm not mistaken. :lecture:
That damned Zeiss microcontrast...single strobe with a beauty dish... in trying to keep the dramatic sky from blowing out, I think this becomes a bit to "pasted in" looking