Tonal Quality

Trever1t · Nov 2, 2012

Please give me your thoughts on how you feel my skin tones and overall tonal quality is in this image? I am trying something new (to me).

_POR8699 by WSG Photography, on Flickr

Rick58 · Nov 2, 2012

Looks great to me Trever, but I"m not a portrait guy

Ysarex · Nov 2, 2012

I think skin tones and color (white balance) in the photo are accurate to the slightest smidge warm -- perfect for the subject. The contrast is low overall -- enough to note, but again not inappropriate given the subject.

Joe

Trever1t · Nov 2, 2012

Thank you, yes, I like a certain degree of low contrast

There are 2 separate WB in this image, one global and one selective. Thank you!

o hey tyler · Nov 2, 2012

I think it looks nice. The color palette is muted but there's enough contrast from skin to background to make it work. Very nice Bill!

Vtec44 · Nov 2, 2012

IMHO, skin tone is nice by itself. However, matching it with a similar background can give the viewer the impression of a low contrast image. That's all personal preference though.

Trever1t · Nov 2, 2012

Not sure I understand, the background and her skin are different temps.

Derrel · Nov 2, 2012

Her skin tone looks too orange. I LOVE that background location though! Excellent selective focus work!

Hurme · Nov 2, 2012

I think the only downfall of this image is her clothing, but that's so subjective it may not be worth mentioning. It's just something I've started to think about a lot in my own photography lately.

Trever1t · Nov 2, 2012

On this shot I reversed my technique and bumped contrast slightly.

_POR8708 by WSG Photography, on Flickr

Sweetneers · Nov 2, 2012

Did you digitally replace the branch? It looks flat to me, like not tonally flat, but literally flat.

MLeeK · Nov 2, 2012

The first one isn't AS orange, but I'd probably reduce it a little bit. I too feel the second is really a bit orange-even for a warm tone. The images both are gorgeous.