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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 333341" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>As well as there are several programs out there to "improve" things, often in response to the "flavor of the month" you see in publications or the web. I have Portrait Professional, which is very popular but in most cases, not all, in my opinion it goes overboard. There is a widely held misconception that when doing portraiture (women especially) that their skin must be <em>perfectly smooth</em>. In all my years of photographing women, I have never seen a woman with perfectly smooth skin. Just look at all of those "super models" without makeup. Some have faces that could stop a clock. Many of the programs, as well as PS, are often overused to create women who look like <em>mannequins</em>. This is a very unnatural look if you ask me. </p><p></p><p>Below is a portrait I did several years ago, not my best but not bad. Deona had a very good complexion but it was not perfect, who's is? On the left is the image with just a little bit of smoothing in PS on her cheeks and forehead. On the right is what Portrait Professional did with the same image without any work in PS. It is <em>way</em> over-smoothed and that is with the image controls set to minimum. Digital looks "plastic" enough on its own in my opinion without any extra help. I showed her the over-smoothed one and she didn't like it at all. She was, however, <em>delighted</em> with the other. And that was an impression by someone who was really unfamiliar with is considered "fashionable" in portraiture. In the end, what the customer wants should be the driving factor. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/deonacomparison1000.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/deonacomparison1000.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 333341, member: 12827"] As well as there are several programs out there to "improve" things, often in response to the "flavor of the month" you see in publications or the web. I have Portrait Professional, which is very popular but in most cases, not all, in my opinion it goes overboard. There is a widely held misconception that when doing portraiture (women especially) that their skin must be [I]perfectly smooth[/I]. In all my years of photographing women, I have never seen a woman with perfectly smooth skin. Just look at all of those "super models" without makeup. Some have faces that could stop a clock. Many of the programs, as well as PS, are often overused to create women who look like [I]mannequins[/I]. This is a very unnatural look if you ask me. Below is a portrait I did several years ago, not my best but not bad. Deona had a very good complexion but it was not perfect, who's is? On the left is the image with just a little bit of smoothing in PS on her cheeks and forehead. On the right is what Portrait Professional did with the same image without any work in PS. It is [I]way[/I] over-smoothed and that is with the image controls set to minimum. Digital looks "plastic" enough on its own in my opinion without any extra help. I showed her the over-smoothed one and she didn't like it at all. She was, however, [I]delighted[/I] with the other. And that was an impression by someone who was really unfamiliar with is considered "fashionable" in portraiture. In the end, what the customer wants should be the driving factor. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/deonacomparison1000.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/deonacomparison1000.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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