Latest photo shoot: Woman!

[poopinmymouth]

Just managed to finally edit the last photo shoot I did before leaving Iceland.

http://mr-chompers.blogspot.com/2009/03/karolina.html Quick write up of the shoot.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/3395176082_941b66409d_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_chompers/3395176082/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3397602687_35450548c3_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_chompers/3397602687/)

And a quick walkthrough of the post-process:

http://www.mr-chompers.com/net/blog/karolina_edit.gif

And more before/after examples of my retouching:

http://www.mr-chompers.com/retouch.htm

[walrus]

Nice work, ben. Nice simple colors and contrast in these - cool setting.

BTW, your presence was requested in this thread (http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7429) a little while back. :)

[Parnell]

really cool stuff dude.
I love the breakdown showing everything you did.
I like the second shot best.
B

[AchmedtheSnake]

cool shots - what ya leaving iceland for?

[cookepuss]

Nice shots. I like the symmetry and when you break it. Decent enough retouching. My only real critiques are:

- The erasure of the wet tracks in the empty plate isn't 100%. It's something I actually noticed before the animated GIF.
- In the 2nd pic, the white point on your subject is coming in a little too hot.
- I don't know if it's your camera, the lay of the land, or the PS correction of background plate, but I think I see some barrel distortion still going on at the edges. I think that a higher focal length earlier on could've saved you some post work.
- The compositing could probably still be tweaked some. Artifacts from the masking process are still apparent. (Some quite hard, actually.)

Maybe it's just me. :p