[Photos] Girl at a window

[dancefloorlandmine]

Well, specifically, Lisa cookwitch, looking out of the window in Bexhill.



(Not strictly posed, as she'd been doing this rather a lot, just that I made her do it again while I was actually holding a camera.)

Comments

[celticwitch-0.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful pic :)

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

I saw this pic on her FB.
It's so lovely! :o)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nicely done!

[bunnypip.livejournal.com]

that's beautiful :-)

[strangelover.livejournal.com]

Lovely portrait. Lovely woman. ♥

Breathtaking

[snesgirl.livejournal.com]

That takes top spot for my fav portraits taken by you :)

technical questions. How did you manage to light cookwitch enough for all the details to come out, yet not have her look like she's sitting in gloom . I know it's natural light from the window... but I've always had trouble shooting in shadow and appreciate any tips :)

Re: Breathtaking

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

How did you manage to light cookwitch enough for all the details to come out, yet not have her look like she's sitting in gloom?

[grin] By taking at least twelve shots, and narrowing it down to five (plus one I played with slightly more, using the Threshold tool in GIMP) - if you look at the others in the gallery, they weren't quite as successful. Then using the Levels tool (in GIMP, but it's in most proper photo editors) to adjust the white- and black-points (pulling the sliders at each end of the tool in until they just about touch the histogram - didn't need to do it too much), darkening the shadows and lightening the highlights a touch. And then, once I'd done that, I applied the "LAB Sharpen" plugin, which applies the "Unsharp Mask" sharpening tool to the luminosity channel, to sharpen it up a little. And then picking the best one. And that was it!

(Details of shot (you can see these for each shot on SmugMug, if it's in the EXIF data): 1/100 sec, f/5, ISO 100)