Before N After Portrait

[sweetmelodies]

Camera: Nikon D3000
Editing Program : Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Before was in RAW NEF
After is in JPG:





Brightened.
Contrasted UP.
Exposed Up.
Clarity Down.
Changed Color. (lightened the Blues, Cycans, and Reds)
Softened face.
Saturation Down.
Vividity Up.

[zona5101]

Nice work. i think your colors & exposure improvements were great. Maybe a tad heavy on the negative clarity for my tastes but very effective!

[elliottimages]

HI,

Nice work of color contrast and clarity.

Wedding photography Glasgow

[clayhilda55]

Nice job! But I would rather lessen the brightness in the girl's face.I like what you did to the hair and the bark.

[sweetmelodies]

Originally Posted by zona5101

Nice work. i think your colors & exposure improvements were great. Maybe a tad heavy on the negative clarity for my tastes but very effective!

Thank you!! i will remember to tone down clarity .. but thanks

[sweetmelodies]

Originally Posted by clayhilda55

Nice job! But I would rather lessen the brightness in the girl's face.I like what you did to the hair and the bark.

Thank you I kinda was going for a little brighter Idea.. BUt thatsok.. some like it bright some dont.. but thank you anwyas. i will keep that in mind

[sweetmelodies]

Originally Posted by elliottimages

HI,

Nice work of color contrast and clarity.

Wedding photography Glasgow

Thank you!

[Lindsie Nicole]

I definitely love the brightness but some of her features get swept away with the brightness in her face. Like her lips. They don't look so big in the after picture because her face is a bit too bright. I do like everything else though. I like the way the background looks and her hair! Gorgeous!

[derikgutowski]

first off, good choice in the crop. I think that makes the biggest difference in the image as the frame was just hitting her in some strange places. I have two specific criticisms of the image.

First, the really bright stump to the left of her face is very distracting. The stump is the brightest thing in the image and is the first thing my eye sees. As a photographer, you are responsible for everything your camera sees. Try finding another location or angle where blown out highlights aren't competing for attention...this may be a difficult task with branches acting like a random gobo.

Second, the greatest amount of detail isn't in her face, but rather the branches and this distracts me from focusing on her. Try a wider aperture with a shallower depth of field, and keep the branch textures out of her plane of focus.

Your model is very pretty and has a fantastic, dreamy expression that your editing works into very well, but in this kind of a photo, find a way to hide all the stuff that doesn't bring focus on her.

Keep it up!!!