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RickSawThat

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Just getting back into shooting and pretty new to DSLRs, did this one today: (had to take a regular job for past 10+ years)


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D5100 - 70-300mm @ f6.3 shot in RAW
 
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Rick M

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Love the lighting! I think I would crop in more on the face. The skin on her face looks different than on the rest of her.
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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cnyram said:
The skin on her face looks different than on the rest of her.
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Not trying to pick pepper out of fly poop, I noticed the same thing Rick did on the skin tone from the bottom of her neck up, the skin to me looks a little on the yellow green side, but not out of place. Skin tones are hard, still a good shot, nice and smooth, keep up the good work.
 
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Marcel

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The skin doesn't look natural to me. Are you blurring the skin on the face? Seems a little bit too much for my taste.
 
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JoeLewisPhotography

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I agree. Her head and neck are WAYYY off from the rest of her. Her face is WAY over processed and looks completely fake taking on a yellow-ish green hue, and far too soft. She appears to be a pretty girl, You should have left it at that.
 
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JoeLewisPhotography

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much better, but still a bit much...pull it back even more so the face skin tones match the rest of her...i still see a giant green blotch on her neck as well. post the otiginal, unedited version for shits and giggles.
 
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JoeLewisPhotography

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its the eyes...they werent sharp to begin with, and your forcing them to be sharp...the last edit you did, with the eyes pulled back quite a bit more should be ok. Looking at the original that funny yellowish green cast was on her face...not sure what it is, but it needs to be corrected before anything.
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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I hope you don't mind I put your photo through Lightroom and made the following changes.

Don't know if you have Lightroom or not I used the HSL mode on her neck and it pull down the Orange -17 and the Yellow -78 and came up with s skin tone I think is close I'm sure if you don't have Lightroom the same changes can be made in Photoshop, I use Lightroom for most of my major adjustments and tweak with Photoshop.
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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Rick this one looks better on the skin tone to me. I don't normally comment in the critique forum unless it's for something obvious. Just like Jack I'm not going to pick it apart, I feel my skill level is not to the point where I could offer constructive advise from here. What I think you have is a foundation to build on, and I'll let the experts take it from here.
 
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