Days Gone By

Candice · September 07, 2018, 07:35:01 PM

What a lovely young lady! Had a bit of time to start working on this young lady today. Lots of rain helped!!

*Determination needed from Tess or Margie* I have taken the young lady and proportionally enlarged her to fill more of the page. Is that all right or do I need to keep the in the original position. Dimension of the picture are still the same.

Hannie · September 08, 2018, 06:10:06 AM

That is a lot of work Candy, looks really good already!

Shadow · September 08, 2018, 12:28:45 PM

Look at you go! It's gonna' be wonderful.

Candice · September 08, 2018, 04:33:10 PM

Update. Any suggestion?

Shadow · September 08, 2018, 04:45:36 PM

Maybe do that thing where you lay the original over your work and tweak the right eye area (looking at the screen) a bit?

Candice · September 08, 2018, 06:35:45 PM

Quote from: Shadow on September 08, 2018, 04:45:36 PM
Maybe do that thing where you lay the original over your work and tweak the right eye area (looking at the screen) a bit?

Thanks, Shadow. I haven't done that yet but for sure it will be done. It's one of the last steps I do. For me, it helps bring out little details that I might not see.

Candice · September 09, 2018, 11:25:56 AM

Now, that the overlay had been done, what think ye? One is in B/W and the other with just a hint of color.

philbach · September 10, 2018, 11:09:48 AM

Hi Candace. The subjects left eye area including the eyebrow, the eyelid and eye itself appear to be darker than the right eye. Lighting for the portrait seems to be coming from the subjects left front side. So I think the subjects right eye is normal and her left eye area is too dark.

Candice · September 10, 2018, 01:31:30 PM

And now?

philbach · September 10, 2018, 05:31:45 PM

Hi Candace much better. I placed samplers on the outer edge of the iris of both eyes and the reflex of both eyes and her left eye is still a tad dark.

philbach · September 10, 2018, 05:50:36 PM

Hi Candace. I copied the photo to a new layer and used screen as the blending mode. Using a layer mask I just showed the area around her left eye in the upper screen layer. More work needs to be done but I thought I would show the result.

Candice · September 10, 2018, 10:46:58 PM

Hope this is better....

philbach · September 11, 2018, 07:00:42 AM

That does look really nice. Around her right nostril things seem a little dark. I don't know if you want to mess with that or not.

Candice · September 11, 2018, 11:43:02 AM

Last corrections have been made. Last overlay has been done. Last touches to color have been completed. I also think she's ready to go home unless anyone sees something else.

Lynnya · September 11, 2018, 12:28:13 PM

Candy she's beautiful!! wonderful work :loveit: