New Portrait Processing Technique (for me)

[vipgraphx]

I am working on a new processing technique influenced by Jill Greenberg. This lady IMO does excellent work.


Zion creative by VIPGraphX, on Flickr

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Zion Portrait by VIPGraphX, on Flickr



CC welcome!

 

[binga63]

nice ....only crits are the bright spots on the right of the image are a little distracting

 

[Austin Greene]

I'm curious what the technique is. I see warm tones, mixed with some selective high vibrance areas, a lot of skin softening, and some mild eye sharpening/whitening. Is that close?

Skin comes off as a bit too soft and warm for me, losing the chin in the body, but that's a personal thing. Overall, great photo, very well composed.

 

[vipgraphx]

I'm curious what the technique is. I see warm tones, mixed with some selective high vibrance areas, a lot of skin softening, and some mild eye sharpening/whitening. Is that close?

Skin comes off as a bit too soft and warm for me, losing the chin in the body, but that's a personal thing. Overall, great photo, very well composed.

Kinda,

First used lightroom to do some post. This is where I made the skin soft with the noise reduction luminance.

In PhotoShop I created two curve layers one for shadow adjustments and one for highlight adjustments then I inverted them both and masked the areas where I wanted to add shadows and highlights.

Next I created a color balance layer and adjusted colors to my liking and masked them in.

Next I duplicated the image and sharpened the eyes, dodged and burn the detail in the eyes and masked that in.

Then I used selective color layer for more color adjustments.

Now I Used Nik Color effex and used the Reflector which gave a more warm color and a slight glow. Then I masked that in where I wanted it.

Done.

This is my first image doing this. I saw some tutorials on Jill Greenberg technique and kinda changed it a little bit rather that going into the channels layers I created lots of layer masks.

Thanks for viewing!

 

[vipgraphx]

nice ....only crits are the bright spots on the right of the image are a little distracting

Good call, I went back and changed that after I read your post.

 

[vipgraphx]

Here is another one I did.


Zion Portrait by VIPGraphX, on Flickr