My First Post

[rohitabc]

I have just joined this forum, just started taking interest in photography and learning on my own..

Need suggestions from all seniors on how will i improve.. Hope you guys like my first pic..

 

[JCleveland]

It's lacking a bit of contrast,
Very interesting subject though.

 

[rohitabc]

^ Thanks JC .....

Kindly check the pic now and suggest

 

[vegasvisionstudios]

Wonderful subject, very revernt.

I agree though that the image lacks contrast and saturation. Checking the histogram shows a very flat line across the full color spectrum.

Attached is a panel of 3 versions
top left = original
top right = Adjusted selective color Red Channle / Cyan - 20 Black +3 (skin tone somewhat heavy in the red tones from Save for Web Compression in Photoshop)
Brightness and Contrast adjusted to taste
quick mask eyes and apply a curves adjustment to the whites and irse, duplicate eye selection to new layer set blending mode to Luminosity and apply unsharp mask +27
Burn in shadows and seletctivly sharpen hard edge detail areas

Bottom Image

Custom B&W conversion based off the top right version using adjustments shown in the attached screenshot and some additional butrning and sharpening of shadow and highlight areas.