Took this shot of my son while walking him to school this morning. Which do you think looks better? Or: Oh! And I already know that the sun blew out the back of his hoodie. And I forgot to mention, see, sometimes I'm not so bright, and I forgot I left my D300 on "Vivid" which tends to make skin tones look too magenta-y. What do you think? Thanks!
Your son and I are both strikingly handsome.... I prefer the unedited shot #1.... just IMO but I like the original skin tone better... plus you took out the bags under his eyes.... maybe a little too much smoothing.... he's not 90 ya know...
hahahahaha. Man, sometimes PP work, well, I just get carried away. I start working on a little something, then all of a sudden I take it just too far and then I've got myself backed into this "MUST DO MORE PP" corner that I cannot get out of. I thought I got kind of carried away with the eyes, but it's not so much the bags under the eyes that bother me, it's the fact that they're so pink. But I couldn't get rid of that pink. So, then I just got carried away with the healing tool. And you don't think his skin looks too...magenta-y? And thanks for the compliment.:mrgreen:
Agreed! First one is best! If you want to reduce the impact of the "bags" under his eyes rather than eliminate it, you can take a softbrush and dodge them a little (on midtone, maybe shadow). Did you do any other smoothing to his face? I just find that everything is very smooth and soft, and that draws my eye to the texture of his hood (by his neck). Nothing wrong, just a note
The only thing I did was "heal" under his eyes. I didn't do any other smoothing to his face. His face just looked awfully magenta-y to me and the color of under his eyes bothered me a bit. I tried dodging it, but it didn't come out right for me.
I am with everyone else i am going with number 1, i think he looks more real in it. Nice Shot..........
