Need Help with a Title and Critique Please.

heip · Jul 8, 2007

It's gaussian blur. It looks smooth becuase it is over the entire image, except the eyes.

zendianah · Jul 8, 2007

Gotcha !! Thank you !

mwct · Jul 8, 2007

Okay as promised here are my edits. All I really did as to apply the filters/actions I mentioned earlier; no other work was done. I tried a few black and whites but they didn't turn out much better than what you had already done so I omitted them. I included two sepias though, one was done by the Optikverve Labs filter plugin and the other was done using the default photoshop sepia action.

First, the midnight sepia action. All I did was press play.

Same action (midnight sepia) but with the top layer adjusted a little bit to let some light through:

And now the sepia filter from Optikverve labs:

And the default Sepia action included with photoshop:

Hope they are helpful.

sayambhu · Jul 9, 2007

mwct - you're the man ! great job !

sayambhu · Jul 9, 2007

zendianah said:
Heres the B&W Version. Im not very good at B&W anyone wanna play with the pic can play with it..

overexposed (can be controlled no problem at all !) but looks awesome to my eyes !

Southerngal · Jul 9, 2007

Such a cute pic....I couldnt resist.

Here is my bw edit....

zendianah · Jul 9, 2007

mwct said:
Okay as promised here are my edits. All I really did as to apply the filters/actions I mentioned earlier; no other work was done. I tried a few black and whites but they didn't turn out much better than what you had already done so I omitted them. I included two sepias though, one was done by the Optikverve Labs filter plugin and the other was done using the default photoshop sepia action.

First, the midnight sepia action. All I did was press play.

Same action (midnight sepia) but with the top layer adjusted a little bit to let some light through:

And now the sepia filter from Optikverve labs:

And the default Sepia action included with photoshop:

Hope they are helpful.

Awesome !! WOW.. I still cant figure out how to get this on photoshop.

zendianah · Jul 9, 2007

sayambhu said:
overexposed (can be controlled no problem at all !) but looks awesome to my eyes !

Totally agree. I see hotspots...

NJMAN · Jul 9, 2007

Hey zen,

The eyes are very beautiful! What a cutie. Although there are some good edits in this thread, I would also try to go back and get some more shots with the eyes in focus. She deserves to be photographed some more. ;-)

Nice job my friend.

NJ

Peniole · Jul 9, 2007

heip's edit is the winner, such a cutie and beautiful eyes (knock on wood).

zendianah · Jul 9, 2007

Thanks all ! Stupid question. I have a hard time focusing on both eyes. Typically I get 1 in focus not the other. I have a D200 is it a setting I need to change?

NJMAN · Jul 9, 2007

zendianah said:
Thanks all ! Stupid question. I have a hard time focusing on both eyes. Typically I get 1 in focus not the other. I have a D200 is it a setting I need to change?

I dont shoot nikon but I assume you have focus points that light up when focusing on your subject. What I do is distance myself just enough so that the eyes are lined up almost exactly on the 2 focus points just below the top one. This usually gives me razor sharp eyes as a result. Does that make sense?

NJ

zendianah · Jul 9, 2007

NJMAN said:
I dont shoot nikon but I assume you have focus points that light up when focusing on your subject. What I do is distance myself just enough so that the eyes are lined up almost exactly on the 2 focus points just below the top one. This usually gives me razor sharp eyes as a result. Does that make sense?

NJ

I'm going to try that..all my focus points line up. Maybe I need to get closer

mwct · Jul 10, 2007

Ah I'm sorry if my post was a bit confusing ND, I would help with the actions if you tell me which step you're stuck on (or "right from the beginning" is fine too, I'll have to try to take it a step at a time perhaps with screenshots.

Peniole · Jul 10, 2007

zendianah said:
Thanks all ! Stupid question. I have a hard time focusing on both eyes. Typically I get 1 in focus not the other. I have a D200 is it a setting I need to change?

Either focus on one if they are in the same plane parallel to your sensor plane, both should be in focus. If they aren't parallel then focus on the inner edge (tear duct edge) of the closer eye to you, if they are still not both in focus, stop down your lens one stop for a more forgiving DOF, to keep both in focus. For example in this case it would have been better to have focused on her left eye rather than the right since the left seems to be closer to you. As a rule of thumb there's more DOF behind (towards infinity) your focal point than there is in front (towards you) of it IIRC.

I edited the above paragraph after I re-read it to make more sense, and slipped on which eye seems to be closer, D'OH.