Babs

[gravymaster]

Hi Guys,
Some of you might remember babs from the thailand photos ( www.gravynet.com/thailand/babs.htm )...

Here she is again:

www.gravynet.com/babs/index.htm

All british cloud diffused natural light.

For those interested, main adjustments were curves, saturation, USM & occasional dodge & burn. B&W done with FM digital workflow. Some files were noise reduced with neat image pro.

Unfortunately these images appear to have lost their punch when converted to jpegs from the original (28mb!!) tiff files. If anyone knows why please share!

Cheers

Matt

[esprit87]

Absolutely stunning (oh....and the pictures ain't bad either )

The first one is beautiful, definitely one I wish I'd taken! Lighting, exposure, composition, the highlight in her eye - it's all perfect. The only thing I'd change is to remove the bracelet which I find a little distracting.

Number five I also like a lot - the pose is very nice. It would look even better in a larger, completely white space.

The last one is again excellent in exposure and composition. It could so easily have looked completely flat but the beautiful light on her face and the white area on the right really makes it an eye-catching image.

Well done matt! I didn't take you long to get to grips with the 1d......



Cheers

Magnus

[gravymaster]

Cheers mate.

It took me ages staring at the two images deciding whether to keep the bracelet in...

Thanks for the comments.

Matt

[simpo two]

I must be getting old: my favourite is the most covered up one: no. 8. Very nice.

[bacchus180]

if you are converting photoshop files to display in an online album, use save for web and resize using bicubic sharper... that way they retain alot of the punch... hope that helps.... also 25mb seems small, I work from a raw file in 16bit in photoshop and the file sizes are normally anywhere from 120mb to 195mb.. if you are shooting a 1d, yours should be the same??

>> Edited by bacchus180 on Monday 18th October 10:40

[rico]

bacchus180 said:

I work from a raw file in 16bit in photoshop and the file sizes are normally anywhere from 120mb to 195mb.. if you are shooting a 1d, yours should be the same??

120mb-195mb

[srider]

bacchus180 said:

if you are converting photoshop files to display in an online album, use save for web and resize using bicubic sharper... that way they retain alot of the punch... hope that helps.... also 25mb seems small, I work from a raw file in 16bit in photoshop and the file sizes are normally anywhere from 120mb to 195mb.. if you are shooting a 1d, yours should be the same?? >> Edited by bacchus180 on Monday 18th October 10:40

Eh? An uncompressed 1D raw file is 24mb (4,000,000 x 3 x 16). Even a 1Ds file is "only" 70mb (ish)

[Davel]

Liked 5 & 7.

8 rather cute too!

[docevi1]

simpo two said:

I must be getting old: my favourite is the most covered up one: no. 8. Very nice.

me to. I'm only 21

[rico]

docevi1 said:

simpo two said: I must be getting old: my favourite is the most covered up one: no. 8. Very nice. me to. I'm only 21

pah... im 21 and im awaiting the X-rated ones

just kidding appologies if she's your gf/sister etc

[murph7355]

srider said:

Eh? An uncompressed 1D raw file is 24mb (4,000,000 x 3 x 16). Even a 1Ds file is "only" 70mb (ish)

I'm assuming he meant the psd file. Which are usually a *lot* bigger than the files you end up outputting...presumably because of history pf edits, layers etc.

[bacchus180]

that was what I mean't.... but never mind