You are very welcome Samuel. I am pleased if any of my feedback to you was useful. 8>
In printing your image, I guess that I would have just gone to a harder grade of paper to compress the tones a little and get whiter corneas. hmmm... I am not too sure how to do that in PS. Of course it raises the ugly spectre about what can be done at the taking stage and I think that deliberately metering to change the placement of tones is always an option.
I should say that it is not quite so easy with colour pictures as with monochrome (good ol' Ansel) but you could probably start by using the very brightest highlights and the darkest shadows and trying to make some sense out of the zone system.
If you pixelate the area surrounding the iris in PS, you will notice just how many different gray colours are present. Not much white there so it may be hard to convert the colour in the way that you desire.
As an aside if you are going to change colours pixel by pixel, it is useful to turn off the anti-aliasing feature that gives a smooth screen appearance to bitmapped images. This feature adds pixels of colour atround the area of interest that you want to work on. They often serve to confuse the real pixel colours present.
Unless you work with a calibrated monitor and standard colour profiles for your scanner (if used) and D1x, you are unlikely to be able to eyeball anything successfully as you will have a constant mismatch between colour selections, colour names and what you actually see on your screen.
Jeff, Thanks very much for the comment on the portrait. You are right about the eyes not being white - I am still working on getting the tones correct in PS. I used the Channel Mixer in PS to convert to BW (with the Monochrome feature activated.) I experiment with the background as well (I adjusted the background and the current value using the eyeball approximation). As for the eye, well, I'm still working on that one and I'll try the other side as you suggested.
Again, thanks so much for the feedback - much appreciated. Sam
Hi Samuel. You have captured really excellent skin tones here. I found myself wanting a little more separation of the model from the background. I thought that Anne's skin and the background were a little close in tone.
What technique did you use in PS to convert the picture from colour to monochrome? Often the whites of the eyes look better if they appear as white. I was curious and I measured them with a software digital colour meter and was surprised to find the whites were placed on zone 3 in this shot (about 30% gray).
A final point (not a nitpick... just a comment which you are free to ignore) - I found that I could not avoid looking at the half closed eyelid of Anne's right eye. When I divided her face in PS (right side uploaded for you) I could see that either half of Anne's face would make a good picture. My own opinion (FWIW) is that her more widely open eye gives a better impression of her obviously vivacious personality.
I then wondered about ways to shoot her face without adding what I believe to be a strong distracting element. I have never had the challenge of this type of shot but I cannot imagine what sort of solution I would need to find if the sitter demanded it.
I would be interested to have your opinion. Nice work anyway!
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