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Kvikken — Lost in thoughts
Published: 2009-09-22 15:05:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1387; Favourites: 101; Downloads: 0
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Another picture that was taken during the fashion shoot yesterday.Model: Ida
Post-processing
Decreased the contrast to get rid off clipped areas by turning up recovery and down the blacks in camera raw, also gave the picture a tiny bit more bluegreenish white balance.
Turned up the contrast a lot and gave the picture a blueish and cold tone with a black and white layer with a blue tint set to overlay (60%). Turned up the contrast slightly on the eyes only with a curves layer. Lightened the whole picture slightly with a curves layer and turned up the contrast some more with a black and white layer set to soft light (40%).
Cropped the picture to square and sharpened slightly.
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Comments: 16
Its just awesome i really cant add anything... amazing job. I beg you give me your permission to try something with it my photoshop dreams for a stock like that
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The girl is stunningly beautiful in an unnatural way, as though she is a really delegate robot. I think it can be seen as a warm picture but also with a sense of science fiction.
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Haha, that's a strange, but interesting way to see it
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I'm generally not one that's really huge on portrait photography, but there is just something so captivating about this piece! I just love it
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wow. this is fantastic. a great focus and perfect colours
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im glad your glad.
were both glad, so im glad
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Since the Critique Feature is only for premium user ( 
All in all: Really good job. Everything works really well together here. The blueish tone, the clothing, her passive/thoughtful look. Perfect. And also a BIG plus that you shared your postprocessing. Helps beginners and shows, that you are honest.
Hard to say what you could improve ... I think the blurred white areas are a little bit too bright. And I don't know if the square format is optimal ... but I guess you already checked that
I'm not a big studio photographer ... just my thoughts
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Firstly, thank you so much for taking the time to write a constructive comment, I don't get many of them
I agree with the white areas being too bright, I had some pictures whith a background without light coming from the outside, but her expression wasn't as good, and also the background was more boring, but I probably could have exposed the picture differently to save the burnt out areas and make them darker.
I think the square format works, even though I think it would have looked great in a landscape format as well. But the picture was taken in portrait format, and with the composition it had, it was either portrait or square, and square worked best
I'm not a big studio photographer either, I have taken pictures in a studio once or twice, this one is actually taken inside a parking lot, and was taken during a photoshoot I did there for a school assignment [link]
And once again, thank you, I really appreciate it
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I help where I can
Of course it takes some moments to actually think about the pictures and write something.
But most of the time the author is more than happy about that.
I will watch you. Always nice to have some people giving helpful comments.
I thought about making some sort of "critique-group" here ... but don't have so much time at the moment. But maybe I'll find more supporter.
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