In the end I think it would be all too much work for what is most likely
to end up as a small section of a 4x6 print.
Your last cut is pretty good but I think you still missed the full
extent of the pupils which I have concluded are very widely dilated.
The highlight positioning might look odd but I think you've learned as I
have that you attempt to fix them at your own peril. More often than
not the cure is worse than the disease. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Reading all the posts about this red-eye example and various solutions,
> it became clear to me that a lot of problems were simply from working
> with too small an image. So I upsampled 300%, using FM SI Pro, then
> redid the work and downsized again. I think that works much easier and
> better.
>
> Simply viewing at more than 100% makes things easier to see, but the
> actions taken are still implemented at a very gross level.
>
> The other thing about this image is that flash has done many other
> things. There is lots of unnatural and unattractive reflective shine on
> skin and on the edge of the lipstick. Also, from a pure pictorial point
> of view, the fellow behind her is distracting.
>
> So I did some "stuff" to tone down the reflections and the background
> guy <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/JezC/redeye.htm>.
>
> I think the result removes a great deal of the pernicious results of
> flash. Doesn't come close to portrait lighting, but still.... I like
> the hair a lot better too. Of course, the lines, etc. in the skin could
> be softened, but that's not a flash issue. I'm not entirely satisfied
> with the color of the guy, but at least he falls into the background now.
>
> And the more I look at the eyes, the more I think one problem I've had
> with working with them is that they are actually slightly wall-eyed,
> with one looking directly at the camera and the other slightly to the
> side. Sit back and look a it as though it si a person you are speaking
> with, slightly odd? Maybe it is all a subtle perspective thing from
> using a long lens on someone who is looking slightly to the side of the
> camera. In any case, the result is that the highlights look odd, but
> it's hard to see how to fix them
>
> Moose
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