NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

[Antonio Correia]

Thanks a lot, Antonio! I really appreciate it. I have to watch it closely. If you cold take a wonderful picture like that with a 20D, I have been wasting my 5DMKII

Nope Alis. You do very good work also with your 5D.

I read somewhere: "Don't blame the camera blame yourself"

No, seriously you do very good work with your camera. I shot this one with the 20D and the teddy bear. (70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM Canon)
The light was very harsh and aggressive if this is not the same and - as we can see - he was at the shade where I like to shoot people.

I am sorry if the video has no sound but this is already an improvement.
Neverless you can follow the work I have done on the photo since the beginning and see how flexible LR is. It keeps all the history of what you do in the photo.
That is why I could re build the history, starting from the beginning. You can even appreciate how I have hesitated when I was cropping.

Arun Sourie

[ashwin]

Arun Sourie

Hi Antonio Correia,

Thank you for the link...

But you could have waited for some more time..... for the comments from Ali's Model
( His father-in-law's comments ) about the resemblance....

http://www.maxabout.com/politics/p_l...n_shourie.aspx

[Alis]

[Antonio Correia]

Another nice picture from Alis.

Thank you for the contribution

[ashwin]

Thanks a lot, Antonio! I really appreciate it. I have to watch it closely. If you could take a wonderful picture like that with a 20D, I have been wasting my 5DMKII

It is always Man behind the Machine ( CAMERA ) matters

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Ali,

If I may critique the picture (I know portraits aren't 'my thing', but see what you think)

I would:
Crop 8% off the top edge
Crop 4% off the left edge
Re-process so there is some more detail into the coat
Try a gentle Neat Image noise filtering to reduce what I think is a little noise in the background
I might also see whether there is anything to be gained by an even gentler Neat Image use on the skin
I'm not sure about the glove/mitten thing intruding bottom right corner, it keeps distracting from the face, it would be a shame to have to crop that much off the bottom though

It is a nice, natural, relaxed portrait though - and that's the bit I have trouble with!

Cheers,

[Antonio Correia]

[Alis]

Hi Ali,

If I may critique the picture (I know portraits aren't 'my thing', but see what you think)

I would:
Crop 8% off the top edge
Crop 4% off the left edge
Re-process so there is some more detail into the coat
Try a gentle Neat Image noise filtering to reduce what I think is a little noise in the background
I might also see whether there is anything to be gained by an even gentler Neat Image use on the skin
I'm not sure about the glove/mitten thing intruding bottom right corner, it keeps distracting from the face, it would be a shame to have to crop that much off the bottom though

It is a nice, natural, relaxed portrait though - and that's the bit I have trouble with!

Cheers,

Thanks, Dave! I agree with your suggestions.

About the Neat Image, I am using the last version now and it has so many different sliders that is so confusing, I just use the automatic default setting. I guess I need to sit down and really learn how to use this new version.

[Alis]

Another nice picture from Alis.

Thank you for the contribution

Thanks, Antonio!

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Ali,

~ About the Neat Image, I am using the last version now and it has so many different sliders that is so confusing, I just use the automatic default setting. I guess I need to sit down and really learn how to use this new version.

I have 6.0 Pro+, is that what you mean?

It has 5 sliders - but I have it in the simpleton's "Standard Mode", there is an Advanced Mode", but I rarely go there. Switch between them in the Tools menu.

I accomplish most of my variations by being careful what I sample on and varying the 2 Noise Reduction Amount sliders (Luminance channel and Chrominance channels).

This (also available under the Help menu) says it all: How to use Neat Image. It covers the Basic Mode.

Cheers,

[Alis]

[Alis]

Hi Ali,



I have 6.0 Pro+, is that what you mean?

It has 5 sliders - but I have it in the simpleton's "Standard Mode", there is an Advanced Mode", but I rarely go there. Switch between them in the Tools menu.

I accomplish most of my variations by being careful what I sample on and varying the 2 Noise Reduction Amount sliders (Luminance channel and Chrominance channels).

This (also available under the Help menu) says it all: How to use Neat Image. It covers the Basic Mode.

Cheers,

Thanks, Dave, for the link. I will take a look. And yes I have the 6.0 Pro now. I was pretty confortable with the previous version but looks like I have to do some reading again. They can't make this thing a little bit more intuitive

[Antonio Correia]

Alis, this is NOT a good image ! This an EXCELLENT image !

Have you been reading the interviews to Rembrandt and Vermeer ?

Alis, you end the year with a superb picture. A very high level work.
In terms of B&W - and I know little of it - all the tone are present. The light is well directed and focused but not that much.

I am really impressed. Great great image. Congrats.

Have a 2010 with Health. All of you, son - with an O yes - wife, others and yourself.

This wish is extended to all who read and participate in my successful thread

[Colin Southern]

[Antonio Correia]

This one is also OK but I like the other better.

[Alis]

Alis, this is NOT a good image ! This an EXCELLENT image !

Have you been reading the interviews to Rembrandt and Vermeer ?

Alis, you end the year with a superb picture. A very high level work.
In terms of B&W - and I know little of it - all the tone are present. The light is well directed and focused but not that much.

I am really impressed. Great great image. Congrats.

Have a 2010 with Health. All of you, son - with an O yes - wife, others and yourself.

This wish is extended to all who read and participate in my successful thread

Thank you very much, Antonio! I like this one a lot myself!

The light is from the window on the right.

Happy New Year to you and all the other NonSCPians!

[Alis]

Wonderful, Colin, as always! For some reason it looks like a painting. I think it is the colors of her dress, the backdrop, and the fact that she is tanned (?) in the middle of winter!

[Colin Southern]

Wonderful, Colin, as always! For some reason it looks like a painting. I think it is the colors of her dress, the backdrop, and the fact that she is tanned (?) in the middle of winter!

Thanks Ali

Winter? ...

... middle of summer here!

[jacsul]

Very nice Colin, what Ali plus the angle makes a nice flare.
My 2 cents...
Jack

[ashwin]

Hi Antonio Correia,


One more, this time Non-Square image