Greg at Ferry Plaza
Canon A570IS
An impromptu outdoor portrait of my friend Greg.
The color of his shirt happened to match his surroundings.
--Warren
*edited the picture per SteveR's suggestion to warm the tones a bit. I like it better than the original. Thanks for noticing, Steve!
Labels: Canon A570IS, Portrait
posted by Warren T. at 11:12 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
A really nice portrait! I like the composition you made. After looking at it, I think it's the "L" shape of made by his right shoulder and left upper arm - almost forming a 90-degree angle, but tilted to the frame of the image, and achored at the lower corners - very strong composition!
Looks like the kind of fellow you'd like to get to know ;-)
BTW, I recently 'discovered' the "photo filter" layer in PE4. I've found that many of my photos are too blue right out of the camera, and the warming filter does a nice subtle job. Try it out with Greg's photo & see if you like it - because it's a layer, you can vary to opacity to dial in just the right touch of warming :-)
Hmmm, I left it alone because that's sort of true to the scene at the moment, lots of bluish cast as we were sitting in shadow, and everything around us was blue or blue green and he was wearing a blue shirt. Does the blue tone of the shot bother you?
--WT
Hi Warren - I just copied the large jpg to clipboard and pasted it into PSE4 - then tried the photo filter layer - I did like the the skin tones a little bit better - but (a) I know this is highly individual taste, and (b) I wasn't there, so your rendition is surely more true to the scene ;-)
Hey Steve, I had a minute to do some adjusting tonight, and you're right, it does look more pleasing warmed up a bit. My version of Photoshop does not have the filter layer, so I just did the color balance using another method. Thanks for noticing!
--WT
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