E.R.N. Reed wrote:
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
The image looks a bit too reddish on my monitor. Ran it through a couple
of color checkers to verify - so it's not my monitor calibration that's
off. I fiddled a bit with the color inPS and found something that
looked a
bit more natural. Of course, color is such a subjective thing wrt
what one
sees and what one likes, so take my comment with that in mind. But to my
eyes, it doesn't have that old style, warm tone at all.
[Original Message]
From: Gonz
My youngest, she loves drama and this was her chance to act out a
little in front of the camera. I didnt make it entirely Black and
White. Trying to get an "old" portrait look. Do I need to desaturate
more?
http://www.g0nz.com/4imgs/data/media/1/anframe.jpg
Comments, critiques, etc. welcome.
I agree with Shel about the reddish tone. Before I opened the picture, I
was rather expecting something more like sepia. Yellowish-brownish,
rather than reddish.
I trimmed the rest of Shel's comments 'cause I didn't agree about the blur.
Incidentally, when I attempt "soft" for a portrait (not very often,
lately) I use an old UV filter which I've sprayed lightly with matte
spray. Don't know if that would give you results you'd like.
Thanks for the comments. I've tried the soft front filter technique
with limited success. I've been playing around with the tone too. I
realized that it looks alot warmer on LCD displays than my CRT monitor
and will play with it so that its pretty much in the middle of both.
ERN
