[Week 2] The Photoshop artist

Very little retouching for this portrait of my girlfriend Marghe shot at home with a good white background :-)



Shooting details:
Canon 40D with Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro and Canon Speedlite 430EX
f/3.2 , 1/60s, ISO 250

Few comments:
1. I have no clue why I could not set a faster speed for the Speedlite. Seriously 1/60s is really slow. Lucy me this one got nice :-)
2. I bounced the light on my ceiling. White big are to reflect it and mixed with ambient light. I like when I manage to find the right flash parameters to merge the ambient and the flashgun light. It's way better as it avoids these totally dark background typical of point and shoot cameras
3. The Tamron 90mm Macro lens work better than I originally thought for portraiture ... I am impressed, waiting for the bucks to get a good dedicated lens :-)

Lightroom adjustments:
1. White balance (yep, to warm it up a bit)
2. Softening the skin with a negative clarity of abt -0.5 applied with a soft adjustment brush
3. Whitening teeth, always by adjustment brush, but with negative saturation this time
4. Sharpening the eye on focus (amount 100, radius 0.6)

That's it! :-)
Comments are welcome