![]() The image above is the JPG straight out of the camera. I finally decided on this shot based on the color, hair, eyes, and slight smile. You can grab several frames, but in the end hopefully just the right amount of small details will come together and you’ll find something that you really like. At this point I narrowed it down to one that I liked best - grey sweater, hood up but not pulled back against her head, hair flowing out of it, and big eyes. This puts me in the top two rows, with only a few left to decide upon. Looking over the shots, I decided I liked the images with the hood up, but her hair down and flowing around her. So that pretty much narrowed me down to this contact sheet: I felt that it put more focus on the colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. I also personally liked the grey sweater against the grey background as well. There’s just something I like about big, bright eyes in a portrait, particularly in women. In my case, I wanted something a little more somber looking with a focus on her eyes ( they are the window to the soul, right?). This is a hard thing to quantify, as each of us is driven by our own vision and style. Mouseover to compare to unretouched version You’re not allowed to use these images for Commercial purposes.Īnd to whet your appetite, here is the final result of all of the postprocessing of my portrait (mouseover to compare it to no retouching): The final result I'm aiming for You’re free to use them, modify them, and share them as long as you attribute me, Pat David, as the originator of the file. These files are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license ( CC-BY-SA-NC). XCF file just to see what I did, I recommend the ½ resolution file, as it’s smaller. Download the full resolution JPG from RawTherapee.So, here’s a Table of Contents so you can jump to the section you need: I’m walking through many of the things I had previously written tutorials for, and apply them to a process this time so you can see them as part of a workflow. Seriously, this is the longest post I’ve ever written. The Open Source Portrait (Equipment & Environment) The previous tutorial in this series is here: (It saved my butt with this image, as you’ll see below).Īlso, you’ll be able to download my RAW file, and JPG output from RawTherapee below. I know that I forgot to mention it in the last post, but for goodness sake if you can shoot RAW - do it. At this point all I’ve got are a bunch of RAW (and jpg) files of the shoot. In my previous post I walked through the concept and shoot of my portrait of Mairi. I also made a couple more tweaks to the noise reduction settings, because I don’t mind a bit of grain, but I don’t think this is that important.36 min read The Open Source Portrait (Postprocessing) use “colour propagation” for highlight reconstruction instead of blend, as it seems to work better here.Unfortunately in my experience this setting has a negative effect in colour, which is especially visible in underexposed/high iso shots turn off “auto CA correction” in the raw tab.I generated one from dpreview’s studio scene (see this thread) use a dual-illuminant dcp profile for your camera.I basically move sliders around (while reading the manual) until I like the result.Ĭould I have done better with this picture? How?īetter is subjective, but here are couple of things I would do with your picture, FWIW: Luminance noise is essentially the “grain” that you see also when looking at a black-and-white picture. I’m not an expert, so forgive my sloppy terminology, but you can think of chrominance noise as the “coloured stains” that you see when opening an underexposed image without any noise reducion. I still do not know the difference between luminance and chrominance noise. ![]()
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