character study II Photo

Photographer’s Note

I have worked on this image quite a bit according to suggestions in critiques. I tried to remove the blue color cast, and lessened the brightness a lot - I started to feel as we had to squint into the glare of the photo in the same way as they were looking in to the sun. I feel this is an improvement, as now we can better see the expressions and stances.

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Critiques | Translate

cgrindahl (6109) 2004-08-02 0:11

You did a wonderful job here Jan! Congratulations, this is much improved over the original. You greatly reduced the brightness while retaining the details in the faces. One can't do better than that. Good work.

mimi (2321) 2004-08-02 1:36

Nice shot, Jan. It's tough shooting dark skin in that kind of light, but you've done a nice job with the PP. Great expressions on each one of them, and the corroguated house makes a nice background.

manny (21378) 2004-08-02 2:15

Keep on taking picturesof people Janet. You have a good timing. You capture the essence of raw emotions and expressions. I like the colors here. An dthe faces. Very candid.

ma-tibou (4566) 2004-08-02 4:41

Bonjour Janet, tu as effectuée un très bon travail, les couleurs sont belles , tu as réussie à capturer l'expression des visages. Très bonne composition. Bravo.

Jeppe (18623) 2004-08-02 16:34

You did a fine job here Janet - I like this version much better then you original post - The contast work very well now and the colours better indeed - thanks for this and your workshop to my latest post - I haven't been thinking of doing this :-)

pridel (233) 2004-08-09 17:32

Janet, vous avez réalisé du bon travail à partir de la photo original. j'aime bien ce portrait de groupe, où chaque personne regarde ailleurs. La femme de droite est très expressive par son regard. Elle vaut une photo pour elle toute seule.
en tous cas félicitations pour cette photo.
Pascal

ChrisJ (70019) 2004-08-10 4:47

A good tri-portrait & daily life shot. The rubber tyres have sinister connotations with old Sth Africa.

elihesamian (26091) 2004-08-11 2:56

Hi dear Janet!
Glad to see you again with this fine shot in daily life categories,I like it,The light well captured you very good controlled the contrast,lively shot with a good cropping that you did.
You did great ,Janet!
Respectfully

hdl (6735) 2004-08-16 6:35

Hi Janet, I think you did a very good job here. You really have an eye for taking "people shots". Bravo; the expressions on the faces are very good and the composition is very good too. The postprocessing here is perfect!