Thanks Bruce. The skin still has pore detail in the full res image. Like you, I look at a lot of over cooked images too.
My general retouch technique is spot healing brush/patch tool for blemishes, the clone stamp on lighten with a very low opacity (about 10% or less) for under the eyes, and the final skin smoothing is based on this tutorial: <http://youtu.be/Fv4L1-TaGhI> I skip the 2 Gaussian blur steps and just reduce the skin smoothing adjustment layers opacity at the end. Cheers, Dave On 4 November 2012 23:54, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
