Dave, I don't feel this displays over-smoothed skin, but I view a lot of fashion images where unrealistically uniform skin is expected, so I have a bias. :-)
But I also note that one cannot really tell if skin detail was lost to post-processing in a 3/4 length shot that's less than 1000px high, like here. Assuming there is fine detail in the original, it's all been smoothed by image reduction to that size anyway. The beauty dish mounted just above head height and aimed close to on-axis produces very little shadow detail and so, as you note, does a pretty good job of skin smoothing by itself. I assume that you don't blur the skin, but use the healing tools, mid-opacity clone stamp on Lighten, frequency separation, maybe a good plugin, etc. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:52 PM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: > G'day Rick, > > I did indeed smooth the skin in post. I'd be interested to hear if > others thing it's too much. I like to think I'm pretty judicious in > the level of smoothing I use. > > Also I've noticed that the beauty dish used like this washes out the > skin which is quite flattering. > > Thanks for your comments. > > Dave > > On 4 November 2012 06:44, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Dave, did you smooth her skin digitally? If not, she's got astonishingly >> clear skin. If so, it's a bit overdone. Any more and she'd look like a >> mannequin, and they aren't threatening. >> >> Rick >> >> >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Cc: >> Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:49 AM >> Subject: OT PESO - Dangerous >> >> G'day Trendsetters, >> >> I had a bit of a shoot with one of my favorite models last weekend. >> Here is one of the images: >> >> <http://500px.com/photo/17291049> >> >> Single strobe with a beauty dish, high camera left. Shot on the D800 >> with a 50mm f1.4. >> >> Enjoy, and as always, comments & critiques welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
