COSTA CHARACTER

[FUJI]

The George Bernard Shaw look alike is in our local Costa quite often.....he was very happy to have this portrait taken as he sat just inside the front window.

 

FUJI

[kev7d]

That is a nice one FUJI. A lovely range of dark and light contrasting tones gives the image a nice quality in my opinion.  

[Phoenix]

a lovely portrait of an interesting character. Great tones, nice and sharp. My only concern would be the top of the glasses frame on the right of the photo,  cuts his eye so a slight push up of his glasses would help to see the sparkly in his eyes. Great catch

[fuzzyedges]

David Hockney with a beard 

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://a4.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,h_1200,q_80,w_1200/MTE4MDAzNDEwNTU1ODY0NTkw.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.biography.com/people/david-hockney-9340738&h=1200&w=1200&tbnid=xDgWkxinZmOtbM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=186&usg=__G0jCzpVkJHzNomZUwK_nmJWCmbU=&docid=xOGIsjsz8m-EDM&itg=1

Nicely caught Fuji 

[Craftysnapper]

A great character shot Fuji. But in this case I think the very contrasty condidtions have not helped you and trying to bring back the shadow detail in post processing has washed the image out.

Next time when shooting a backlit portrait try metering of the face and increase exposure by o.7 to 1 stop and and stand at a angle so he his fully backlit and not partialy, just my opinion.

[FUJI]

A huge thank you Paul, you are dead right in every way.......but when I explain the conditions I shot it in you will realise why it looks like it does.

i was on my way out of our extremely busy COSTA followed by a pal, we were chatting and had others pressing to get out as others pushed to get in.....it was at this point I spotted my subject, who had given permission for a portrait some weeks previously........I simply drew his attention, aimed  then pressed the shutter.....all in a day's street photography ;-))

 

FUJI

[fuzzyedges]

I like the image Fuji but I can see Opaul's point of view 

I dont do b/w often but I tinkered with your image 
It may be too your liking it may not we will see 

[FUJI]

Lovely edit Fuzzy, I will have to go back to see what I can do now......thank you all.

 

FUJI

[fuzzyedges]

Lovely edit Fuzzy, I will have to go back to see what I can do now......thank you all.

 

FUJI

It was a pleasure to work on Fuji 

I can outline  what I did if you want

[FUJI]

It was a pleasure to work on Fuji 

I can outline  what I did if you want

YES PLEASE!

 

FUJI

[fuzzyedges]

YES PLEASE!

 

FUJI

I brought your image into bridge, this is not neccessary but it is the way my work flow works 
Slightly sharpened (not much) and decreased the exposure by -0.015
Sent to p/s cs4      on a seperate layer used smart sharpen advanced in the shadows (not much) 
control j (New Layer) - image- adjustments- shadows / highlights and keeping the radius to 1 moved sliders to suit 
control j (New Layer)- lasso tool around the overexposed nose area- control c (copy)- control v (paste) (this puts it on its own layer not necessary but just as a safe guard)
Using the burn tool at 50% reduced the "shine" in that area - merged down 
Also with the same burn tool I reduced the shine in other places like his cap bottom left and where i thought fit 
control j (New Layer)- filter- sharpen- unsharp mask adjusted to suit
control j (New Layer)-lasso tool- 0 pixels- lassoed the left eye- holding down shift lassoed right eye- control c (copy)- control v (paste) (this puts it on its own layer not necessary but just as a safe guard)
Filter- other- high pass- adjust until detail just shows in the eyes-in the layers box select soft light, this will give a shine to the eyes
Flattern the image and bobs your auntie 

I have deliberatly not used the slider settings I used because its up to your eyes to set your levels 
I am sure others have diffrent ways this is only one of them