Carmen
© Billy Wilson 2010
An extreme edit of Carmen, this took me hours to do, directly below in the comments there is a before and after comparion of the edits that I have made to the original photo, the original photo was cropped though, to make comparision to the edited one easier.
This is Carmen, I met her on Model Mayhem, her Model Mayhem number is: 1209787.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speed: 1/4 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/6.3 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 55mm (80mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)
I shot this in a tripod, using mirror lockup and a 2 Sec. selftimer, while the model was standing in a tight alley. I used a 60" Westcott reflective umbrella positioned outside of the alley beside the camera to provide the key light. Shot into the umbrella I had a Canon Speedlite 430EX II at full power and at 105mm, triggered by a Canon ST-E2 wireless Speedlite transmitter on the camera.
I opened the RAW file in ACR and adjusted the colours, clarity and vibrance a bit. Then I opened it in CS4 and cloned little things out and saved as a 16 bit TIFF and made a brighter and a darker version of the image and loaded all three of them into Photomatix Pro.
The process I followed here is similar to the one I used on this one. It involved a softly lit shot that was detail enhanced, tone mapped, then softened with blur and healing tools then blended with the detailed version it a way that gives a great balance of tones and detail from HDR processing without looking overdone or too unnatural. I darkened the background and feathered it around her face, I added a subtle amount of gaussian blur to everything in the photo except her face and the yellow parts of her hair. I used dodging and burning to bring out the eyes and saturated them with the sponge tool. I also used liquify to slightly change the shape of some of her facial features. Her right eye is actually a mirror image of her left eye, because her right eye was looking slightly more upwards than the other one, so I made a copy, reversed it, and put it over the other eye and used curves to change the look of the new eye to match the look of the older eye.
Carmen
© Billy Wilson 2010
An extreme edit of Carmen, this took me hours to do, directly below in the comments there is a before and after comparion of the edits that I have made to the original photo, the original photo was cropped though, to make comparision to the edited one easier.
This is Carmen, I met her on Model Mayhem, her Model Mayhem number is: 1209787.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speed: 1/4 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/6.3 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 55mm (80mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)
I shot this in a tripod, using mirror lockup and a 2 Sec. selftimer, while the model was standing in a tight alley. I used a 60" Westcott reflective umbrella positioned outside of the alley beside the camera to provide the key light. Shot into the umbrella I had a Canon Speedlite 430EX II at full power and at 105mm, triggered by a Canon ST-E2 wireless Speedlite transmitter on the camera.
I opened the RAW file in ACR and adjusted the colours, clarity and vibrance a bit. Then I opened it in CS4 and cloned little things out and saved as a 16 bit TIFF and made a brighter and a darker version of the image and loaded all three of them into Photomatix Pro.
The process I followed here is similar to the one I used on this one. It involved a softly lit shot that was detail enhanced, tone mapped, then softened with blur and healing tools then blended with the detailed version it a way that gives a great balance of tones and detail from HDR processing without looking overdone or too unnatural. I darkened the background and feathered it around her face, I added a subtle amount of gaussian blur to everything in the photo except her face and the yellow parts of her hair. I used dodging and burning to bring out the eyes and saturated them with the sponge tool. I also used liquify to slightly change the shape of some of her facial features. Her right eye is actually a mirror image of her left eye, because her right eye was looking slightly more upwards than the other one, so I made a copy, reversed it, and put it over the other eye and used curves to change the look of the new eye to match the look of the older eye.