used E11 to add grit to black and white portrait

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James said we should keep focus on the nearest eye when doing portraits. Here is the 100% best way of guaranteeing that.


This man is a councilor for troubled youth and young adults... yikes, that's a job that you really have to be cut out for. (I'd expect)

The cloudy sky over Lake Simcoe and looking into the setting sun was a good recipe for a portrait. IMO. The little D50 and 35/1.8 did a nice job of getting some detail but I did crop into the pic to get that detail to show up. A free program called Photo Editor did a decent job of removing fill-flash glare.

original framing

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Nice one Charlie, The close-up combined with the BW gives it a sculpted look, like one of the faces on Mt. Rushmore, or the old man on the mountain in New Hampshire.

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The first image puts me in mind of a Karsh portrait. Really nice shot.

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Dec 9, 2013 15:06:10 GMT nditty said:

Nice one Charlie, The close-up combined with the BW gives it a sculpted look, like one of the faces on Mt. Rushmore, or the old man on the mountain in New Hampshire.

ahhh... interesting what you say about sculpted look.
that look is coming from doing 3 layers in E11
top layer ... hard light filter
middle layer 5 pixle overlay sharpening
original

It'd be great if we had some Adobe Ellements experts around here to help us out ... but so far, this look is looking good.

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Dec 9, 2013 15:38:47 GMT @jamesd said:

The first image puts me in mind of a Karsh portrait. Really nice shot.

hey James, after reading your comment (actually, the thought came to me too) I went to Google again.

you gotta check out this official site!
In the gallery of his portraits, Karsh comments on each photograph shown. One, it's very interesting from a historical point of view and two, he gives details about how the pics where taken.
www.karsh.org/#

Many of his portraits had that rim lighting affect going on... just as in this pic of my friend who was looking to wards the sunset. That and the pure profile look is very reminiscent of many of Karsh's portraits. Somehow he convinced his subjects with large noses to let him shoot them in profile.

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That's a great site. I reread the story of the Churchill portrait. Can't imagine having the guts to do what Karsh did. LOL

Yeah... your portrait really does have that Karsh look to it.

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Dec 9, 2013 21:32:59 GMT @jamesd said:

That's a great site. I reread the story of the Churchill portrait. Can't imagine having the guts to do what Karsh did. LOL

Yeah... your portrait really does have that Karsh look to it.

yep, he did that when Churchill was Churchill
 was that the day that Karsh became Karsh?

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Could be. And by the way... this portrait just wouldn't have the same impact if it were in color. Why is that? Is it to do with the expression on the subject's face?

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Dec 9, 2013 6:31:34 GMT @hear2see said:

James said we should keep focus on the nearest eye when doing portraits. Here is the 100% best way of guaranteeing that.


This man is a councilor for troubled youth and young adults... yikes, that's a job that you really have to be cut out for. (I'd expect)

The cloudy sky over Lake Simcoe and looking into the setting sun was a good recipe for a portrait. IMO. The little D50 and 35/1.8 did a nice job of getting some detail but I did crop into the pic to get that detail to show up. A free program called Photo Editor did a decent job of removing fill-flash glare.

original framing'Again I'm viewing it a bit dark...Nice character lines in both shots...

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Excellent shot Charlie and your right about the Eye part lol Cheers Bob

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Dec 11, 2013 15:25:25 GMT macroman said:

Excellent shot Charlie and your right about the Eye part lol Cheers Bob

well I'm glad somebody agrees with me about the eye
this pic turned out pretty good... maybe I'll try the same technique with other people.