This Friday I Heart Faces is doing Constructive Feedback posts. This photo was taken today. I wanted to enhance the colors since the bluebonnets were so pretty, but I can't get the skin tone to work out right. I feel like she is a little too washed out. Please help.
This photo was taken on a canon rebel xt. I shot it on AV mode with an apeature of 3.5 and the shutter speed ended up being 1/4000 ISO was on 400. I edit my photos in Corel Paint Shop Pro XI. Thanks!
I love this photo, the angle, the colors- it's all wonderful. Though I do agree, your subject is a bit washed out. I used paintshop pro 8 to lower the saturation of the blues/cyans and slightly raise the reds and yellows. It gives her a bit more color in her cheeks while not dulling the beautiful flowers.
ReplyDeletehere's the result of me playing around with it.
This is a great photo. I'm betting if you're having problems keeping the blue of the flowers while adjusting the skin, you could probably just select the skin and make color adjustments to the skin only.
ReplyDeleteI think the skin might be a tad overexposed too. I pulled it into the RAW editor and with some adjustments in lowering the exposure, increasing the recovery, adding some fill light and blacks, I was able to get the detail back on the side of her face. I'm not sure if Corel has a RAW editor or not. If it does, this is a very useful tool.
Overall, though, this is a beautiful capture!
First I want to apologize, I won't have any helpful tips. I'm so very much a beginner when it comes to editing. I've been learning so much from other's comments during the fix it Fridays and now this.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, what a beautiful capture - great angle and what a beautiful young lady. Since I'm such a beginner with editing, what I would do is highlight/outline her and duplicate her - create a second layer. Make her adjustments seperate from the rest of the photo. I wish I could instruct you better! My husband teaches me as he learns things and I know I don't always get the correct terminology! :-)
Monica
I saw the bluebonnets and had to check if you are a Texan. :) Great angle for the picture, but you are right, it is a touch washed out. You could have brought your ISO down to 200 or even 100, as you are outside in such bright sun. To bring your daughter out more, select her, then invert the selection and deepen the landscape colors...not sure if Paintshop Pro has a levels option, but that is my go to tool. Or, you can burn the background, leaving your daughter brighter than her surroundings.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your wonderful tips! I'm so excited to try them out!
ReplyDeleteI'm a little late in getting feedback to all of you who willingly participated in this awesome fix-it friday post, kudos to you for wanting to learn more!
ReplyDeleteI won't repeat what everyone else wrote but I will add the following suggestions: After fixing the exposure and curves on her face as others suggested, if you have a patch tool or something you use to fix blemishes, edit her under eye circles a little, it will make the dark shadows on her face less obvious. I would also select your subject and the flowers in the foreground, invert the selection, and adjust curves for the background to darken the background, this will add emphasis to your subject and the flowers. Great photo, love the angle, on bright sunny days, especially with a slightly older subject, you can put your ISO at 100 or 200 and you'll be fine.
I'm trying to work my way through all of the people who participated last week and find that I have nothing to add to the awesome suggestions you have already been given!
ReplyDeleteExcept that I wish I were in that field of beautiful flowers with my children right now. :)
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