Igor, I think you mean to say that the highlights are too high or they are clipped. The word "overblown" is itself overblown in that you cannot be more blown than 100% clipped, so the over- part is redundant.
As to the highlights being too high, I don't agree (they are probably close to the white point, maybe Zone 8) but it's a style thing. I've seen a lot of fashion shots, and this is a typical example. This might have been shot with a large beauty dish or a gridded softbox without its front diffuser. That results in extra specularity and contrast on the skin, giving both bright highlights and deeper shadow along the edges of contours, limbs and such. (Which is then Photoshopped much further ...) Pick up a copy of Vogue or Elle sometime and flip through the ads. You'll see this style a lot. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: > > Hi All! > > Last night, on late night TV show, I saw this book cover photo: > http://goo.gl/2sSZuA > > My first reaction was that the highlights in the photo are overblown. > This was especially apparent in how it looked on TV (and my TV is > reasonably good gamma-wise, and it is only ~5 y.o.). > It's bothering my eyes. > > Does it look that way to you? > And if yes, - why, do you think, they did it this way? > > Igor > > > -- > 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.
