I used to, with the help of the strobes, get photos overexposed in-camera, but now I've resorted to post processing because a normal in-camera exposure would give me more flexibility on whether to give the photo a normal or a overexposed/high-key look later on. So, this photo was original not overexposed.
Post processing for this photo: I've used a multiply layer to darken the eyes and a soft light layer to add more contrast to the eye brows and eye lashes. In order to convert the photo to B&W, I have used two hue-saturation adjustment layers: the top layer (blending mode set to 'color') to desaturate the photo completely and the bottom layer to change the hue for different B&W effects - the bottom layer acts as a variable B&W filter. The final step would be to adjust the contrast and brightness of the photo using an s-curve. The 'belly' of the curve was pulled towards the upper left to increase the brightness of the midtones to get the overexposed/high-key effect.
I have a minimalist mentality in mind when post processing this photo. My aim was to draw the viewer's attention to the model's beautiful eyes; to do this I found that overexposing the facial details actually get rids of some visual distractors and effectively leaves the face as minimal as possible so that the viewer's attention would not linger too long where I do not want it to be but will be drawn to the eyes. The image might do better with more forms given to the nose, lips and chin; I have tried doing this but found that these facial elements if too explicit will contend for attention; so I have resorted to leave them suggestive instead of explicit.
That's all. Hope it helps!
2007年9月14日星期五
High-Key Portrait
3-Layer Orton Video Tutorial
Orton Effect is a mixture of softness and sharpness in an image. It's useful for many images including portraits to create a kind of dreamy softar-like effect. Here's a video to explain how to go about it:
Flickr Orton Group here.
Flickr Orton Group here.
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