Shot for the girls

[Daytonj6]

This picture is one of a friend who has bad profile pictures on face book. So I am revamping his look!

Impromptu photo shoot at school during lunch
Nikon D60, 50mm f/1.8 Soft box, Profoto bi-head kit. One for the background nothing on it (bad mistake). Black wall, used about a 3 foot reflector behind him. and an energy saving bulb through a beauty dish reflector for his hair. about 5 feet up.

Started with a brush (in PS-CS4) at 50% softness, and default white, painted over his teeth. every one of em, and then changed the blending mode to soft overlay. looks pretty good eh?
I then took the black from the shades, cloned the colour and made pen selections around the frames, feathered at 3px and then painted with I think 0% softness brush relatively large brush.
My intentions are to put a picture of Mountains in there, or a bmx'er that he likes. Only thing I am wondering about is perspective. Vanishing point wont let me do this (far as I know) because its not a rectangular shape.

next i used the patch tool on his face. does it look too fake??
I noticed his upper lip was gone, so i put some of it back with the history brush. (great tool that is
then i added some hue/saturation adjustment layers, coloured his shirt and took some colour out of the background that spilled from his shirt and then a brightness/contrast to give him some more

then to cap it ll off i added a 15pt Gaussian blur and used a soft brush to mask his face back in.

Were both 16 (he is turning 16 soon).
What do you think? is this good for facebook, for a spur of the moment shoot.

Thanks for reading
Dayton.

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[Daytonj6]

After reviewing this, the lenses could be shaded a bit so they are not as pitch black.
as well as fix his nose so it doesnt contrast his face as much.

[irishmuth]

I think the whitening of the teeth was taken too far. It looks unnatural.

[willisbretz]

I agree with the whitening of the teeth being too much. It was overdone to the point that it doesn't look natural.

There is not enough detail left in his face either. Cleaning up blemishes and such is always good, but I think you may have softened his skin a bit much to where it doesn't look real.

More notably, there are no reflections in the sunglasses. This looks very unnatural to me as there should be at least light reflecting into them.

These are just my opinions and things I have noticed. At 16, you seem to be on a good track and also seem to know your way around Photoshop a bit too.

- Willis

[Daytonj6]

Thanks!

I'll done the opacity down on the teeth


and worry about the glasses when i find out how to put a picture in there in perspective mate



Cheers