Lisa Carmichael by Robin Reid

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09-DEC-2006	Robin Reid

Lisa Carmichael

Malibu, CA

I’m puzzling about how my images, which look fine in Photoshop wind up looking too washed out when posted … even at original. This recent image of a former fellow Padder (Lisa Carmichael) was practice. Tell me how it looks to you, please!

Lisa’s semi-dormant site is at http://www.pbase.com/lisacarmichael/profile

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/200s f/4.0 at 17.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto

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Greg Harp		21-Dec-2006 04:28
Marvelous portrait. Looks great to me.

carol j. phipps		21-Dec-2006 02:35
Lovely portrait. Beautiful eyes and smile.

Guest		20-Dec-2006 21:32
Glad to help, I learned most of what I know from people on pbase who are nice enough to share. This looks better, no need to make the background dark, she is bright enough (I mean that in a cheery way, not a "your monitor is crap" way!)

Robin Reid		20-Dec-2006 20:22
With Jeanne's good advice (thank you very much) I have reprocessed and uploaded the image. One trick she taught me is to look at the image in Photoshop with levels boosted (temporarily) to see artifacts etc. A great help. IMHO Honest feedback and help is the backbone of Padders.

Robin Reid		20-Dec-2006 19:23
@Jeanne... thanks... that is the kind of feedback I need. And amazingly..not of that shows on my screen! I appreciate you. - R

Guest		20-Dec-2006 18:33
correction... At original size her eyes are in focus, must be the compression to LARGE that made them look blurry But at original size the way you darkened the background is even more evident. You need to try a few different approaches to darkening the background, seleecting the subject just isn't working here.

Guest		20-Dec-2006 18:30
It's the dark background that is weird.Looks like you selected part of it in photoshop and then darkened the rest of the background. This is not a really good way to do it, it looks weird. You can see a spot above her eye (her right eye looking at the picture) that clearly was not part of the selected background. You can see choppy bits around her sweater, and her hair on the left side too, from where you "selected" part of the image to NOT darken With all your photoshop books, I'm surprised that this is still the result you are getting? Why not use the healing brush at a lower opacity with a feathered brush and burn the background in a bit, this selected stuff just doesn't look good. ALso her eyes aren't in focus and in portrait shots, that's the most important part.

Coleen Perilloux Landry		20-Dec-2006 16:13
Since I do not know Lisa I cannot comment, however there is a lack of skin color. I have noticed the same in some of my photos.

Gayle P. Clement		20-Dec-2006 14:18
Robin, Breland is noticing the same thing with his. I can't figure out the reason. This is a lovely portrait of Lisa.

Gary Winters		20-Dec-2006 07:00
Looks fine; great smile.

Cliff		20-Dec-2006 06:16
Great to see fellow Padder Lisa ! Photo looks fine Robin. I do notice sometimes an apparent change in density on upload.