Her hair looked a bit too dark before, now it looks kind of posterized.
On 5/27/2012 9:40 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Absolutely! I replaced it on Flickr, so if you look at the same link
as before ...
http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7262010996/lightbox/
you'll see the revised one.
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Paul Stenquist<[email protected]> wrote:
You're welcome, Bruce. Your photo was excellent to begin with, so it's worth
making it as perfect as possible. When it comes to fixing photos that are less
than perfect, I have more experience than I care to admit to. Can we see the
result?
On May 27, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Okay, Paul, did that. Also lightened-up her hair and much ofthe whole
left side of her face. I think that reduces that "lazy eye" illusion
plus revealing her nice hair a lot more.
Thanks for your critique and pointers, Paul!
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Paul Stenquist
<[email protected]> wrote:
You could probably release a bit of the tension in her face by smoothing out
her brow above her left eye. Worth a try IMO.
Paul
On May 25, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I'm sure you've seen Hurrell's work, if you've seen any b&w shots of
Hollywood stars.
https://www.google.com/search?q=george+hurrell&tbm=isch
I agree her hair needs to be revealed more, and I need to brighten her
eye as well, per Paul's suggestion, so I'm off to do some
dodge'n'burn. :-)
Thanks, Bob!
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Bob Sullivan<[email protected]> wrote:
Bruce,
I don't know George Hurrell's style at all, but I enjoyed the photo.
For such a glamorous shot, I miss her luxurious hair...needs light!
Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Bruce Walker<[email protected]>
wrote:
Was introduced to a lovely lady who wanted to do a creative shoot. I
suggested Hollywood glamour ala George Hurrell and she said yeah ...
http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7262010996/lightbox/
This is the first of a few I'll be retouching. The goal was B&W, but I
couldn't resist keeping this one colour.
The shoot took place yesterday in The Gallery Studio Cafe in New
Toronto. There's a piano, which of course we made use of, and a nicely
decorated bar with a big ol' espresso machine, which also made it into
some shots. We basically had the run of the place. Dorothy enlisted
two of her ex-colleagues (she was an on-air personality with a talk
show on Rogers cable TV) for makeup and hair and they did a superb
job. I have BTS shots of the two of them working on Dorothy
simultaneously.
I wanted to get the "focussed-light with rapid fall-off" look typical
of George Hurrell's work, so I used the ring-light-in-a-softbox that I
created especially for the shoot and tested on my wife last week.
George used multiple big hotlights with fresnel lenses to get his
look, so we clearly would only be able to approximate it but I think
we didn't do too badly. He also spent hours dodging and burning to get
his deep shadows and body contouring, so at least that part I'll be
able to emulate accurately! :-)
K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 39mm/f:8.0, 100 ISO, 125th sec.
AF160 ringlight in 18" Westcott Apollo softbox on monopod, held above
and in front of subject's face.
AF540 in 42" silvered umbrella for fill, camera-left.
AF540 with snoot for hair, well back camera-right.
Cowboy Studios radio triggers.
Lr and Ps for post and retouching.
Comments welcome!
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