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[OM] Re: Portrait PP, Objective, or Subjective

Subject: [OM] Re: Portrait PP, Objective, or Subjective
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:22:07 -0400
On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Garth Wood wrote:
> And at least your wife will occasionally sit for a
> photo -- mine won't go near my lame studio attempts.

Hum. She made me do it. I was reluctant. But I've been reading up on  
portraiture, and decided that because I had a piece of black foam  
core and a big sliding glass door, I'd give it a shot. I was at risk  
of being blamed for the delay of the news release. Couldn't have  
that. <g>

> Perhaps instead of aggressively removing
> wrinkles you could go for a very slight and tasteful "glam" filtering,
> such as an Orton effect.  Has the twin benefits of increasing the
> saturation (without changing the colour balance) and of softening the
> image.  Done on a second layer in Photoshop, you can do as much or as
> little of the effect as you need/wish.

Okay, I guess my reading isn't that extensive. I don't recognize the  
Orton effect.


--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com



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