Trying Something Different For Me With Portait

[Craftysnapper]

/It's not my usual kind of treatment for portraits and I'm not usaly a fan of white vignettes but I thought I would try and go for a muted old fashion look.

Not sure it works and if it does if it is better in colour or mono?

[Clicker]

For me Paul it works better in mono... Especially if you are looking for an old fashioned ambience ...the colours seem  a little too vibrant and modern to sit well with that light vignette treatment ...for me anyway  ...though  I can imagine that your usual treatment would enhance the colour version and  it would be a very good portrait as usual .

[Ryewolf]

I might have done something like this, hope you don't mind, basically I darkened out the dark bits of the vignette...

[Brian]

Very nice image, but, I tried it in Photoshop and desaturated it a fair bit and it looked quite good. I think the crop of the vignette at the top is too tight.

[colinb]

Paul whilst I think the edge of the vignette is too strong and needs defining into an oval more than present,  I beleive the head being so tight to the top edge prevents the whole idea from working with this image as my eye is drawn to that wisp of hair at the top - sorry.

[kev7d]

I like the mono one best. She is pulling a great face.  

[FUJI]

I like all of these, with a preference for the final dark edit by Rye......... I suggest you see what your sitter thinks is her preferred choice, and that would be your answer.

FUJI

[Craftysnapper]

Thanks guys for all the comments, as I said not my kind of processing or thing and I will put this down to experience.

[Craftysnapper]

10 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

I might have done something like this, hope you don't mind, basically I darkened out the dark bits of the vignette...

Now it's lost the old fashioned look and looking more like my style, which is  not a bad thing BUT as it was muted and had low contrast applied it hdoes not have the lovely modelling light in the original afforded by my garden hut location.

So here is the modern version.

 

 

 

[kev7d]

And now you are talking Paul. Goal!    

[Craftysnapper]

9 hours ago, kev7d said:

And now you are talking Paul. Goal!    

Thank you Kev.